Dan Brendel

Dan is a principal in the Indianapolis office, serving in a leadership capacity for the firm’s Nursing Facility/MDS Verification engagement team, and it’s upper payment limit compliance practice area. Through his more than 14 years of professional experience he has assisted state Medicaid agencies in navigating the challenging and complex healthcare landscape, particularly in the long term care and long term supports and services program areas.

He currently supervises engagements across multiple states, serving as a subject matter expert in acuity-based (case mix) nursing facility rate setting and rate system design, modernizing home and community based services rate systems, developing and supporting value-based purchasing programs, modifying state provider tax programs and evaluating other Medicaid financing arrangements, providing upper payment limit compliance consulting and reporting, and supervising the audit/review of provider cost reporting information and other oversight activities.

To support these state design and compliance efforts, Dan also assists in developing and implementing Medicaid cost reporting and cost survey instruments, drafting Medicaid state plan and other statutory/regulatory language, developing mechanisms to encourage and capture stakeholder feedback, providing testimony to state legislatures, and designing and delivering focused trainings to state and industry representatives.