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ABOUT ATAC

Addiction Treatment Advocacy Coalition (ATAC) Provides Political, Legal Advocacy,
Education and Consumer Protection In The Field of Addiction Treatment

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 diagnostic laboratory company. 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.

Zachary Ratliff

Board Member

Zachary is the CEO & Co-Founder of Proof in Recovery which is developing technological solutions to improve care, prove outcomes, and reduce costs for those suffering from substance use and eating disorders. He also volunteers his time as a board member for the Addiction Treatment Advocacy Coalition to ensure patients have access to the care they need.

Previously, Zachary served as a consult at Health Care Service Corporation, the parent company of the second largest BlueCross BlueShield group. During his tenor, he coordinated with leadership from multiple departments to develop and deliver cohesive, accurate analytics and reporting to demonstrate the value BlueCross BlueShield’s networks and products; these insights ensured clients were able to offer their employees cost effective, quality insurance products. Specifically, Zachary championed the development and automation of smart/tiered network, specialty pharmacy, and reference-based pricing analytics.

In addition to providing traditional actuarial consulting services for fortune 500, hospital, and governmental accounts during his years with Mercer, Zachary led network evaluation and on-site clinic teams. He was also heavily involved in the analyst mentorship program and led Mercer’s proprietary tools training for all mid-west new-hires.

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.

Recent News

Pay to Patient Update #2

April 20 2017
In the past 6 years, to balance the State budget, California has slashed spending for social services, health, education, state parks, state worker compensation, as well as prison and court programs. Additional tax revenues would have made a difference. Stampp Corbin, President of the Addiction Treatment Advocacy Coalition (“ATAC”), is known for his ability to crunch numbers. An in-depth analysis by Corbin reveals that at least $100 million a year in tax revenues has been lost to California since 2011 because health plans adopted a new national “pay-to- patient” policy for out-of- network providers.

Small Rehab Forced to Close Due to Pervasive Insurance Fraud

April 17 2017
"Tom Horvath, Ph.D., had two small residential treatment programs in California: one had six beds and one had four. The programs, called Practical Recovery, required abstinence while patients were there (Horvath is also president of Smart Recovery, which has mutual support groups around the country in which participants are not required to be abstinent). Charges ranged from $42,000 a month to $54,000 a month. 'We had a number of clients who paid cash to do that,' he told ADAW last month. 'But we weren’t in a mansion, like in Malibu, and a lot of folks are more interested in a man- sion than in treatment.' So Practical Recovery used out-of-network insurance policies as much as possible."

UPDATE: Blue Cross Checks to Addiction Treatment Patients

April 1 2017
We have learned that earlier this week the Chairman of the Senate Health Committee pulled from SB 636 the language that would prohibit the Blues from sending checks to addiction treatment patients. There was apparently opposition from Anthem (of course). The hearing is on Wednesday. Please call your State Senator before the hearing and tell him/her as a constituent you support SB 636 but want provision 10133.75. (a) put back in, or Senator Bradford given time to meet with stake holders and come up with new language acceptable to all. Every additional phone call make a difference, and it does not matter if you are a facility owner, or a licensed clinician or a registered worker. I don't know how long it will take to get this before the legislature again.

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