Lightning Bolt Partners
Billing and Building Together

Both academic faculty who have won awards for their teaching and service at nationally ranked medical schools , Phil and Chris formed Lightning Bolt Partners to fill a tremendous national need for billing and coding education taught TO clinicians BY clinicians, after CMS's once-in-a-generation billing changes in 2023.

Physicians, advance practice providers, and other qualified health professionals MUST be able to competently and compliantly bill Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurers for their work. Well over 60% of physicians do not feel comfortable with billing code selection, often downcoding to avoid scrutiny. Healthcare providers who have been taught about billing often find that teaching to be lacking as non-providers often don't understand clinicians' daily work. This confusion causes HCPs and their employers to lose tens or hundreds of millions of dollars per year. 

Filling this gap is Lightning Bolt Partners's specialty. Both Chris and Phil are practicing physician leaders, who have spent the last decade teaching billing and coding to fellow HCPs. Always done with humor and fun (if you can believe it!), you can be sure that an in-person or virtual session for one clinician or a series of small groups teaching hundreds will leave clinicians talking with their peers about how best to use Lightning Bolt, Toilet Paper, and Banana Peel to reinforce how sick their patients are to coders and insurers alike!