Deborah M. Alexander, CHC, CHPC, PMP, DPT, MED, AT-R, PT, CSCS, has been a physical therapist for over 35 years, graduating from Thomas Jefferson University and later receiving her Masters of Education and Sports Medicine from Temple University, and then a Doctorate in PT from Simmons College. Deb attended Penn State University for Project Management, receiving the certification of Project Management Professional (PMP), while obtaining her Certifications in Healthcare Compliance and Privacy from the Healthcare Compliance Association, and 30-hour OSHA Certification. As a physical therapist, Deb has experience in acute care, private practice, home health, skilled nursing homes, and currently treats InHome for a PT private practice.  As the previous Director of Rehabilitation Consulting and Compliance Advisory Services for LW Consulting, Inc. and CEO of PTCompliance Group, Inc. she provides compliance and HIPAA consulting services across the continuum for post-acute care providers and legal counsel, conducts documentation auditing for medical necessity, reimbursement entitlement and statistical overpayment extrapolation, conducts compliance program analyses at the request of BODs, oversees two SaaS products (exclusions and chart auditing compliance), and serves as a therapy consultant when responding to government requested audits and fraud investigations.  Deb continues to serve as a Senior Consultant for Compliance Advisory Services and Product Development at LW Consulting, Inc., while continuing to serve as a member of the APTAPA Payment Committee since 2019. Deb also serves on the APTAPA Ethics Committee.  

Deb serves as a compliance advisory expert and is asked to present at state and national conferences, and several DPT programs, on therapy documentation, appeals, denials, coding and billing, HIPAA, and regulatory compliance and ethical practice, payment and entitlement across the continuum, license protections, regulations impacting physical therapy services, while keeping state practice act and ethics at the forefront. Deb has presented at WebPT’s National ASCEND Conference, APTAPA Payment Seminars, APTAPA MovePA State Conferences, APTA CMS, and provided content to Digital Health Implementation and Licensure Protections for APTA from a regulatory and ethical perspective. As a Project Manager, she has served on an AI Steering committee for the Project Management Institute within the healthcare sector as IT projects are integrated into health system processes to ensure compliant cross-functional integration to comply with compliance, legal and ethical practice.

As an author, Deb has created Compliance, HIPAA, and OSHA Plan products; co-authored articles on Healthcare Compliance and Ethical Practice, HIPAA Privacy and Security, and AI with Ethical risk analysis considerations; and served as content developer, scoring methodology, and project and product manager of clinical documentation auditing SaaS platform.  Deb currently oversees LWEnS Exclusions Software® and client services for LW Consulting’s compliance auditing platform.