Dick Phillips

Dick Phillips is a 1967 graduate of the University of Georgia. His history includes ten years in high school teaching and coaching and three years as an assistant football coach at Vanderbilt University. In industry service, he worked in management for seven years with Air Products & Chemicals, Inc. and five years for BFGoodrich.

His introduction into drug screening was in 1988. When working in the insurance industry, he was made aware of a “new” problem for his DOT clients with the introduction of the drug screening regulations. Mr. Phillips did training during those early years for several state trucking associations including Tennessee, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina and Indiana. Recently, he has made presentations to the Minnesota Trucking Association’s Safety Council in St. Paul.

Mark Peterson, MD  

Dr. Peterson is a 1971 Magna Cum Laude graduate of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga BS.  In 1974 he received his MD from Northwestern University Medical School and in 1978 completed his residency in Psychiatrics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  In 1980 he became a Diplomat, National Board of Medical Examiners; Board certified in Psychiatry and in 1987 was Certified, Addiction Medicine.

After serving in the psychiatric and addiction medicine arena for almost a decade, he became certified as a Medical Review Officer in 1998.

Who pays the bills?

Doris Phillips is a good place to start. All invoices for the nearly 2,500 - 4,000 different clinics, providers or labs we pay annually, start on her desks.

They process over a thousand invoices monthly and print several hundred checks to pay them. Accounts receivable and the more unique invoices are handled by Sandra Christnacht.

Between the two of them, they have nearly twenty years of service to CMS.