Meet the Team
Alan Duretz, Founder and President
With more than 30 years of experience in healthcare management, Mr. Duretz obtained a BS in Management (1971) and an MBA in Healthcare Administration (1996). In 1996 he completed CMS training on HIPAA and, shortly after, the Part B based Certified Compliance Professional Designation. In 1998 he completed a certificate in Physician Compensation in the Era of Compliance at the Wharton School. Throughout his career Alan has earned numerous appointments to several Medicare Carrier committees including the Carrier Advisory Committee, two terms and a current member of the Provider Outreach and Education committee and its subcommittee on enrollment. Mr. Duretz is an honorably discharged US Army Veteran and enjoys baseball so much that he founded a non-profit organization combining those two interests. Check out the organization here at vetbaseball.org. In his spare time he enjoys his four daughters and seven grandchildren.
Roy Moncada, Vice President and Partner
16 years of experience working with claims processing and electronic data interchange, Roy graduated from SUNY Cobleskill with an AAS in Computer Information Systems. He also obtained a BAS from Broward College in Information Technology. Roy is a lover of the outdoors, an avid fisherman, and a coach for youth travel baseball in his spare time. He also serves as a Board Member for vetbaseball.org.
Sandy Bertrand, Operations Manager
Sandy Bertrand began her journey with Phybill in the fall of 2012. She has an associate’s degree from Broward College in Health Information Technology Management. From there, she attended Florida Atlantic University, majoring in Healthcare Administration with a double minor in Project Management and Healthcare Information Systems. Dedicated to her field Sandy also interned at Atlantic Shore Hospital, a behavioral healthcare facility.
A brief history of PhyBill, Inc.
- As the administrator of a statewide behavioral health organization headquartered in Miami, Mr. Alan Duretz was responsible for all day-to-day non-clinical activities.
- Owing to his dissatisfaction with the billing company, he embarked on setting up an internal effort from scratch.
- In 1992 he was approached by other statewide groups in both behavioral, and other disciplines, to assume their claims processing activities, and that was the beginning of PhyBill, Inc.
- In 1996 Alan became the President and co-owner of the behavioral group, and in 1998 he became the sole owner.
- Shortly after he spun off the billing company and incorporated it as PhyBill, Inc.
A brief history of PsyNote®
- Our team began a rough sketch of an EMR designed for the psychotherapy provider in 2005. Later we reviewed the design schematic with the compliance staff at one of the largest Medicare Part B carriers.
- After a positive review, we formed a team of 3 psychologists, 2 programmers, and Mr. Duretz as the overall designer and compliance specialist. His one overriding rule was KISS and make it flow the same as the LCD/NCD CMS polices. OK, that’s two rules, forgive us.
- In 2006, PsyNote® deployed the first (beta) locally installed version of PsyNote® EMR. A few years later, we initiated research on transitioning to the cloud.
- With the design and engineering for the cloud version completed, our team selected Microsoft Azure as the host in 2011 and then started the testing phase of the cloud version.
- In 2014, we deployed the first users of the cloud version.
- Finally, all remaining users from the old local version were integrated into the new cloud application.