Dr. Stefan Humphries MD, MBA has been working as a medical director and practicing physiatrist for over 20 years. He is currently employed as the medical director of a freestanding 27 bed inpatient rehab hospital at Palmdale Regional Medical Center in Palmdale, CA. Dr. Humphries works with the hospital administrator in a dyad partnership, providing administrative and clinical leadership and Physiatry care. Initially out of residency, he was in private practice and was contracted as a medical director with a for-profit organization, HealthSouth in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He subsequently transitioned to work as a medical director/CMO with nonprofit organizations, St. Luke’s Rehabilitation Institute in Spokane, Washington and Renown Rehabilitation Hospital in Reno, Nevada, and as a Senior Associate Consultant at Mayo Clinic Hospital in Phoenix Arizona. His experience has included strategic planning, programmatic development, quality and performance management, budgeting and financial management, management of operational compliance, and customer relations. He also has had oversight and responsibility for the development and performance of an employed inpatient/outpatient Physiatry practice, an acute care hospital consult service, and ongoing management of an inpatient rehabilitation hospital Physiatry/Hospitalist service. He represented Physiatry as the Physiatry Section Chief at credentialing committees, system quality operations committees, and the medical executive committees. Additionally, Dr. Humphries served as a standing board member of Renown’s ACO and as the Chair of the Clinical Integration Committee. His role as medical director/CMO has afforded him the opportunity to lead implementation of EMR’s and CPOE including evidence-based order sets in the inpatient/outpatient rehab setting for multiple EMR’s including Meditech, Centricity, MEDISERVE, Cerner and EPIC. Additionally, he has had the opportunity to provide physician oversight and leadership in JCAHO/CARF accreditation surveys, as well as state surveys. With Renown Health’s partnership with the University of Nevada Medical School, Dr. Humphries had the opportunity to mentor and teach fellows, residents and medical students during rotations at Renown’s Rehabilitation Hospital and began to become involved in translational research.

For his long as he has been practicing as a physiatrist, Dr. Humphries has been a generalist, practicing in both inpatient and outpatient settings. His passion is inpatient rehabilitation medicine, with additional interest in musculoskeletal medicine including regenerative medicine and diagnostic ultrasound. He currently provides inpatient care for patients with core rehab diagnoses including spinal cord injury, stroke, traumatic brain injury, multiple trauma, and general neurology diagnoses, as well as medically complex patients with cardiac/pulmonary related debility and postoperative debility. He works closely with the documentation and compliance team for inpatient Medicare prepayment denials (with Medicare Administrative Contractors), and in the past with Recovery Audit Contractor denials. Dr. Humphries most enjoys Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation for the teamwork it inspires in the delivery of patient centric care.