Melissa H. Scott

Melissa Scott is a Managing Director with The Claro Group. She heads the national Healthcare Consulting Practice, which focuses on disputes, investigations, and litigation support. Her clients include provider-based organizations, payers, and law firms. Her specialties include healthcare operations, forensic analytics, litigation support, provider/payer reimbursement disputes, internal audit, regulatory compliance, investigations, monitorships, and related government mandated claims and transactional reviews. Ms. Scott is Certified in Healthcare Compliance, a Certified Professional Coder, and Certified Healthcare Internal Audit Professional. She has served as faculty for Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Special Investigation Unit (SIU) agents in conjunction with CEU-approved training for the Accredited Healthcare Fraud Investigator (AHFI) credential, working with the National Healthcare Antifraud Association as well as Americas Health Insurance Plans' Fraud, Waste & Abuse work groups. She has been published in several industry journals, including Compliance Today and the Association of Healthcare Internal Auditor's New Perspectives, in addition to authoring a chapter in the Health Law Practice Guide for the American Health Lawyers Association.