Ray Cathey

Ray is President of Medical Management Dimensions, a medical practice consulting firm with a staff of 5 consultants and support staff. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Physician Assistants.

Ray assists physician groups with Compliance Programs and HIPAA Privacy/Security Plans including the HiTECH and PPACA addendums as well as management, billing, revenue cycle management, related issues pertinent to managed care, ACO and fee-for-service insurance and EHR/EMR selection and development.

Ray has over 45 years of experience in the medical field, encompassing air rescue, surgical and acute care nursing, consulting, and extensive physician assistant experience in both medical and surgical practices including first assisting in surgery Read more

Ray is President of Medical Management Dimensions, a medical practice consulting firm with a staff of 5 consultants and support staff. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Physician Assistants.

Ray assists physician groups with Compliance Programs and HIPAA Privacy/Security Plans including the HiTECH and PPACA addendums as well as management, billing, revenue cycle management, related issues pertinent to managed care, ACO and fee-for-service insurance and EHR/EMR selection and development.

Ray has over 45 years of experience in the medical field, encompassing air rescue, surgical and acute care nursing, consulting, and extensive physician assistant experience in both medical and surgical practices including first assisting in surgery and medical management of acute and chronic illnesses.

He teaches specialty specific coding and documentation courses for McVey Associates, Inc, in Cardiology, Peripheral Vascular Coding, Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine. He works with various American College of Cardiology state branches, American College of Chest Physicians and teaches ICD-10-CM coding for these as well as other specialties.

He has substantial experience in managing single and multi-specialty group practices. He has served as the Administrator of a large multi-specialty group and Director of Practice Management/Vice President of the largest MSO in Northern California.

His unique ability to relate to the clinical environment brings great value in resolving medical practice management issues and brings a straight-forward, common sense approach to issues encountered by practices.

He has a BHS and MHS-Physician Assistant and a MHA in Practice Administration. He is a Certified Coding Specialist for physician services with AHIMA and has Multi-specialty coding certifications and Healthcare Coding Instructor certifications with PAHCS and is a Certified Healthcare Compliance Consultant.

Engagement includes off-site or on-site documentation audits, on-site medical practice and billing/coding reviews/training and revenue cycle design, modification and implementation.

• American College of Cardiology State Chapters
• Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions state chapter annual meetings
• American College of Chest Physicians
• American College of Surgeons
• Loma Linda University medical/surgical clinics
• Weill Cornell Medical College Cardiology Clinics
• Stanford University medical/surgical groups
• Temple University medical/surgical clinics
• University of California – San Diego, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Davis Medical Specialty Groups.

• American College of Cardiology State Chapters
• Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions state chapter annual meetings
• American College of Chest Physicians
• American College of Surgeons
• Loma Linda University medical/surgical clinics
• Weill Cornell Medical College Cardiology Clinics
• Stanford University medical/surgical groups
• Temple University medical/surgical clinics
• University of California – San Diego, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Davis Medical Specialty Groups.