Clinical Staff

Erin Duffey-Dupreé, MS

Manager, IRF Clinical Consulting Services

Erin Duffey-Dupreé, MS, is a Clinical Consulting Manager in the Education, Training, and Consultation (ETC) Department at UDSMR, now part of McBee. She has over twenty years of experience in inpatient rehabilitation, has conducted IRF chart audits for eighteen years, and is an expert in both the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System (IRF PPS) and Medicare’s IRF documentation requirements. In addition, she oversees McBee’s Clinical Consulting Supervisors and ETC’s workshops, webinars, clinical consultations, and educational resources. Erin has been with UDSMR since 2005.

During Erin’s tenure at UDSMR, she acted as a Clinical Support Specialist and eventually as the Clinical Support Supervisor to the ETC Department’s clinical staff, assisting ETC management. Her many years of experience at UDSMR include participating in chart audits, developing and overseeing presentations and training efforts, and conducting clinical IRF consultations. Erin manages ETC’s Clinical Consulting Supervisors in these efforts.

Marjorie Mantione, PT

Manager, IRF Clinical Consulting Services

Marjorie Mantione, PT, is a Clinical Consulting Manager in the Education, Training, and Consultation (ETC) Department at UDSMR, now part of McBee. She has over twenty years of experience in rehabilitation audits, including fifteen years in management roles. Marjorie oversees McBee’s IRF coding and clinical chart audit services and manages ETC’s Clinical Consulting Supervisors and Coders in this service line. She is versed in Medicare and Medicare Advantage IRF compliance regulations. In addition, she presents webinars and workshops related to IRF regulatory compliance and documentation education. She has been with UDSMR for thirteen years.

During Marjorie’s tenure at UDSMR, she acted as a Clinical Appeals Supervisor and Clinical Implementation Specialist and conducted IRF chart audits, training efforts, and educational sessions. She supervised the daily operations of the Appeals Department, which included reviewing cases, writing letters of appeal, preparing and representing cases at the Administrative Law Judge level of appeal, and submitting cases to the Medicare Appeals Council. She also provided on-site training for the UDS-PRO Doc™ System and conducted multitudes of IRF education and training sessions.

Prior to joining UDSMR, Marjorie worked in a variety of clinical venues. She worked for eight years in utilization management for an HMO insurance company, where she developed and implemented a utilization management program for outpatient rehabilitation, home care, and SNFs. She later expanded the program throughout corporate regions, which involved reviewing cases for medical necessity, educating providers on commercial and Medicare criteria, and working directly with medical directors on quality assurance projects.

Heather Girard, PT, MSPT, CSRS, CBIS

Clinical Consulting Manager

Heather Girard, PT, MSPT, CSRS, CBIS, is a Clinical Consulting Supervisor in the Education, Training, and Consultation (ETC) Department at UDSMR, now part of McBee. She has over nineteen years of experience in inpatient rehabilitation, and she develops and presents webinars and workshops related to IRF PPS requirements, particularly in the areas of documentation and functional assessment. She also conducts documentation audits to determine subscribing facilities’ compliance with regulatory requirements and conducts facility-specific consultations to help subscribers understand and improve their functional assessments and outcomes. Heather has been with UDSMR since December 2019.

Prior to joining UDSMR, Heather worked in a variety of clinical roles. She was a staff physical therapist with a passion for stroke rehabilitation who grew into leadership roles at a community-hospital-based rehabilitation unit, and she was later the therapy director at a freestanding rehabilitation hospital.

Janet Patrick, RN, CRRN

Clinical Consulting Manager

Janet Patrick, RN, CRRN, is a Clinical Consulting Supervisor in the Education, Training, and Consultation (ETC) Department at UDSMR, now part of McBee. Her experience includes over twenty-five years in inpatient rehabilitation. Janet participates in clinical IRF chart audits and preadmission screen audits, provides facility-specific consultations, develops and presents workshops and webinars, develops educational material, and answers clinical questions from clients. She is well-versed in Medicare IRF compliance regulations, Medicare IRF documentation requirements, and IRF-PAI completion requirements. Janet has been with UDSMR for over ten years.

During Janet’s tenure at UDSMR, she acted as a Senior Clinical Support Specialist, conducted numerous IRF chart audits and preadmission screen audits, developed educational materials, and presented training sessions based on Medicare’s documentation requirements and regulations. She also provided clinical support to subscribers as part of UDSMR’s clinical support help desk, answering questions about IRF-PAI completion, documentation requirements, and CMS’s IRF regulations.

Prior to joining UDSMR, Janet’s experience included approximately twenty years in the inpatient rehabilitation field as a staff registered nurse and PPS coordinator. As a PPS coordinator, she was involved in all aspects of completing the IRF-PAI, providing IRF PPS education to physicians and staff members, conducting internal chart audits, creating documentation templates to meet CMS’s documentation requirements, preparing charts for audit, assisting with appeals, and coordinating with the medical records and patient accounts departments for accurate reporting of IRF PPS information.

Janet is a member of the Association of Rehabilitation Nurses (ARN).

Stacy Johnson, BSN, RN, CRRN

Clinical Consulting Supervisor

Stacy Johnson, BSN, RN, CRRN, is a Clinical Consulting Supervisor in the Education, Training, and Consultation (ETC) Department at UDSMR, now part of McBee. She has over fifteen years of experience in inpatient rehabilitation roles. She helps facilities understand the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System (IRF PPS) and Medicare regulations, ensure the accuracy of their codes, and maintain their compliance. In addition, she conducts chart audits, develops and presents workshops and webinars, and helps develop education materials.

Prior to joining UDSMR, Stacy worked in an IRF setting as a registered nurse, an admissions liaison who conducted utilization reviews, and a PPS coordinator. She conducted chart audits, completed admissions paperwork for potential new patients, completed all PPS-required documentation submitted to Medicare, and served as part of the Leadership Team and the Chair of the PMR Quality Team.

Stacy has been a Certified Rehabilitation Registered Nurse (CRRN) since 2010.

Alexandra Riley, MS, OTR/L

Clinical Consulting Supervisor

Alexandra Riley, MS, OTR/L, is a Clinical Consulting Supervisor in the Education, Training, and Consultation (ETC) Department at UDSMR, now part of McBee. She has over eight years of experience in inpatient rehabilitation roles, including four years as a PPS coordinator. In addition, she has experience conducting chart audits, completing the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Patient Assessment Instrument (IRF-PAI) and providing all PPS-required documentation, educating clinical staff on CMS’s quality indicator data elements for accurate documentation, and overseeing facilities’ quality indicator and credentialing requirements.

During Alex’s time at UDSMR, she acted as a Clinical Support Specialist. She helped facilities navigate the IRF-PAI and understand and maintain their compliance with CMS regulations and the prospective payment system. Her primary roles included developing and presenting workshops and webinars, conducting clinical chart audits, and assisting with the clinical support help desk.

Prior to joining UDSMR, Alex worked in a variety of postacute care venues as an occupational therapist, including the IRF, SNF, and outpatient therapy settings. Most recently, she worked as a PPS coordinator at an IRF.

Alex is a co-leader of the Brain Injury Committee and a leader of the Patient Experience Committee.

Barbara Hazel, CCS/Auditor

Certified Coder, Inpatient

Barbara Hazel, CCS/Auditor, is a Certified Coder, Inpatient in the Education, Training, and Consultation (ETC) Department at UDSMR, now part of McBee. She has been a coder for various specialties for sixteen years, focused primarily on inpatient rehabilitation and the IRF-PAI. Barbara is responsible for reviewing external charts to determine facilities’ compliance with ICD-10-CM coding and CMS’s physician documentation requirements. She also provides ICD-10-CM coding training and education to new coders and works closely with clinical medical staff to help them select impairment group codes, etiologies, and comorbid conditions on the IRF-PAI, as well as principal diagnoses and secondary diagnoses on the UB-04. Barbara has been with UDSMR since 2022.

Prior to joining UDSMR, Barbara worked in an inpatient rehabilitation facility for eight years as a HIM coordinator. In this role, she oversaw the facility’s HIM department and monitored its physicians’ compliance and deficiencies. She then became an acute inpatient coder at another inpatient facility, where she completed abstracts of medical records and reviewed ICD-10-CM and PCS coding.

Barbara has worked as a coding associate II for Ascension since 2017. She has been an AHIMA Certified Coding Specialist since 2014.