Meet Your ATAC Board
Your board is comprised of a group of experienced healthcare professionals with over 50+ years experience
Stampp Corbin
ATAC President
Founding Member
Stampp is the CEO of a Healthcare Consulting Firm. A serial social entrepreneur, Mr. Corbin has successfully built socially responsible organizations that have achieved annual revenues of over $100 million. As a social entrepreneur, Mr. Corbin’s motto is “doing well by doing good.” For eight years, Mr. Corbin served on the Board of Trustees of Mount Carmel Health Systems, a $1.8 billion hospital system in Columbus, Ohio.
He is committed to advancing the rights of those suffering from substance use disorder and advocating for those organizations that provide critical treatment service.
Mr. Corbin is a graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Business School.
Jim Brady
Board Member
Founding Member
Jim Brady is the co-founder and co-owner with his wife, Patricia Brady, of AToN Center, 4 six- bed addiction treatment centers, located in Encinitas. AToN is licensed and certified by the Department of Health Care Services to provide sub-acute detox and residential treatment, and accredited by The Joint Commission. Mr. Brady has served as the CEO since its creation in 1988 and oversees daily operations.
Mr. Brady spends much of his time on insurance related issues involving denial of care or wrongful underpayments of claims in a capacity of client advocate. This experience has given him much insight into some of the toughest issues currently being experienced by ATAC members. Mr. Brady has assisted with the board in preparation of documentation and strategies presented by ATAC to California’s insurance regulators and state legislators with the goal of helping ATAC members collect reimbursement based on the actual benefits of a client’s plan.
Mr. Brady sits on both the ATAC Underpayments and Legal Committees as well as serving as an active board member. He freely shares information from his long experience with the nuances of processing claims and successfully resolving claim disputes.
Josie Herndon
Head of Marketing
Founding Member
Founder and CEO of Addiction Therapeutic Services and RecoveryView., Josie Ramirez-Herndon been working in the field of Healthcare, Behavioral Health and Addiction Services for over 30 years. She was born, educated, and began her professional career at Loma Linda University Medical Center and Behavioral Medicine Center.
Playing an instrumental role to the success of countless addiction professionals and treatment facilities by marketing their services and providing continuing education over the past 17 years, Josie founded and became the CEO of a national marketing and events agency, Villareal & Associates, Inc.
In 2008, Josie expanded Villareal’s function to include an educational component by launching an award-winning CEU website and online journal, RecoveryView.
In 2011, Josie was appointed as CEO of Oregon’s Astoria Pointe. Seeing first-hand that women CEO’s in the behavioral health care field needed a place for support and advisement, she helped found the Women’s CEO Global Alliance.
Harnessing her knowledge and passion for running high-quality treatment centers, Josie launched her own outpatient treatment center in 2013, Addiction Therapeutic Services.
Josie now sits on the Board of Directors of the Addiction Treatment Advocacy Coalition ATAC, expanding her leadership to include industry and political advocacy along with national speaking.
Tim Salyer
Board Member
Mr. Salyer is a founder, board of director’s member, President and CEO. He has twenty years of experience in business formation, growth and management related to Healthcare Services, Inc., which provides detoxification, residential, partial hospitalization program and intensive outpatient addiction rehabilitation services for male and female parolees for the California Department of Corrections and private pay clients and twenty years of experience in the private practice of law in Orange County, specializing in criminal law, domestic law, real estate, business and trial litigation. Always giving, Mr. Salyer serves on the board of directors or governors for eight organizations. Tim’s numerous memberships span from the professional, as a member of the California State Bar Association and Orange County Trial Lawyers Association, to the philanthropic, as a Founding Board Member and President of BBC Admiralty, a fund-raising adjunct of Children’s Hospital of Orange County.
Luisa Davis
Board Member
Luisa E. Ruiz-Davis’ experience spans more than three decades and she has been involved with a diverse array of clients in this time. These clients include but are not limited to substance abuse and behavioral health facilities, M.D.’s, D.C.’s, D.O.’s, Ph.D.’s, PsyD’s, hospitals, and multi-specialty facilities. The services that she provides and is considered an expert in are billing protocols, coding, utilization review, claims appeals, utilization review appeals, revenue cycle optimization, and carrier specific insight and required procedures.
She is a credentialed Certified California Medical Bill Reviewer per the California Department of Insurance, and she is a Certified non-attorney Hearing and Lien Representative for the Administrative Law Court System representing providers, facilities, insurance carriers, and third party administrators. Her focus has always been on mitigating billing issues and ensuring compliance with all aspects of billing, coding and substantiating documentation, and upcoming legislation pertaining thereto.
She is considered an expert in her field, and she is frequently sought as a consultant by law firms as well as insurance carriers that are contemplating litigation. Her uncommonly diverse knowledge and experience of the system and its ever changing protocols makes her a tremendous asset to those that seek her assistance.
Susan Sloan-Velez
Board Member
Susan Sloan-Velez currently holds the position of Sr. Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Covenant Hills Treatment Centers in South Orange County. Covenant Hills is licensed and/or certified by the State of CA Health Care Services to provide all levels of Substance Use Disorder treatment. Susan holds a CADC-CAS credential with CCAPP and has been with the organization for 19 years. Working in the SUD treatment arena for over 25 years, she began her career as Director of Administration, running all aspects of personnel, payroll, accounts receivable, licensing, credentialing, obtaining and negotiating insurance contracts for services and many other administrative areas. In December 2019, she added to her role and knowledge, oversight of the company’s operations. These two roles significantly overlap with one another in many ways and contribute to the wide range of experience and expertise she has accumulated over the years. As a whole, this gives her a well-rounded overview of treatment programs and how these organizations function.
She is committed to helping those in need, maintaining compliance for her organization and getting paid fairly for the services they provide. In addition, she has been a member of ATAC for several years and was named to the Board last year. It is her honor to serve in this capacity as a part of a team of industry professionals who want to move our field forward with integrity and advocate for the providers as well as the clients who so desperately need our services.