Specialties

Healthcare regulations and reimbursement including HIPAA Privacy and Security, HITECH Act (Meaningful Use), Medicare Fraud, Medical Coding and Billing, False Claims Act, Affordable Care Act, ICD-10, ICD-9, CPT codes, DRGs.

Degrees/Licenses

Bachelor of Science; Masters (Exp 2017), Biomedical Informatics.

Formal Education

Studies in Biomedical Informatics, Stanford Medical School, 2015; Studies in Bioethics, Harvard Law School, 2018; Medical coding and billing in multiple specialties; HIPAA Privacy and Security Certification; Certified Ambulance Billing Documentation Specialist

Previous/Current Position

Managing Partner, Healthcare Practice; Managing Partner, Global FDA pharmacovigilance system, Abbott Labs; Senior Vice President for two Fortune 100 firms

Prof. Affiliations

Health Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS), Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI), American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC), American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA).

Publications

Healthcare IT News, GovHealthIT, Mobile Health News, Healthcare Financial Management Association

Prior Expert

150 cases including expert report, deposition, court testimony in Federal, State Courts and Arbitrations. Presentations to the U.S. HHS OIG, three retentions by the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Department of Transportation. To date, a Chief U.S. District Judge, two U.S. District Judges, State Judges, and Arbitrators denied motions to exclude Arrigo or consented to a stipulations of Arrigo's expert qualifications. The U.S. Court of Appeals considered my opinions as adduced in an appellant attorney's Defendant-Appellant brief and subsequently reversed a lower court.