Emily Wolfston is a co-owner of Principled Healthcare Consulting. She has close to two decades of experience in the healthcare field and holds a Bachelor of Science in Human Biology from Michigan State University, and a Master of Science in Administration from Central Michigan University with a concentration in healthcare administration. She also serves on the Board of Directors for the Michigan Association for Healthcare Quality.

Emily’s healthcare career began in pharmacy as a pharmacy technician and manager. This is where she first learned the science and art of compliance. She later used her experience and knowledge to assist attorneys with pharmacy licensing defense, prescription and payer audits, and pharmacy compliance consulting. She transitioned to healthcare management and compliance at a Midwest hospital system working as the unit manager for a sleep medicine lab, and then later to private practice management and compliance working in geriatrics and behavioral medicine. Emily also spent four years as a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) contractor using her compliance and quality measures expertise to assist thousands of small practice physicians and mid-level providers with their quality reporting requirements under the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS). She serves as an Expert Witness on quality reimbursement and MIPS/MACRA related issues for law firms across the country.

Emily continued her career working as a health law and compliance specialist at a major health law and medical malpractice/licensing defense law firm, where she also continued to develop her investigation and discovery management skills. Emily has also served as the Director of Compliance for a global healthcare and technology company where she was tasked with building from scratch a compliance department and program for its U.S. subsidiaries. At Principled Healthcare Consulting she is the Managing Member, and she provides compliance, quality reporting, risk management analysis, quality improvement, investigation, business/ healthcare administration/operations and structural improvement, and process and efficiency evaluation and advancement for the benefit of Principled Healthcare Consulting’s clients.

She is a very accomplished and avid golfer, almost always winning the longest drive contests in tournaments (and most of the tournaments too). Most importantly, she is a mom to one very smart, busy little six-year-old boy, and a couple of silly cat kids.