Magus

The OIG Gap

Your Tech Stack is Creating Liability

The 2026 RADV Final Rule changed the math. Every “Black Box” AI solution in your ecosystem is now a potential audit flag. While vendors promise higher recapture rates, they rarely indemnify you against the compliance risk they generate. You don’t need another sales demo. You need an independent audit.

Products

Sales Compensation Plan
Comprehensive Sales Team Management
Strategic Collaboration with Marketing
Customer Relationship Building

Programs

Sales Process and Methodology
Pricing Model Suite
Market and Competitor Research

Services

Strategic Deal Management
Forecasting and Reporting Systems
Risk Adjustment specific, Sales & Marketing Strategies and Tactics

WHY MAGUS?

We See the Industry From Both Sides

Magus operates on the other side of the industry—advising HCIT vendors on their product roadmaps. We know which algorithms are real, which are vaporware, and which ones break under pressure. We use that inside intelligence to protect your plan.

Principal

Tom Rhodes

The Magus Perspective

With over two decades in the healthcare revenue cycle, Tom Rhodes sits at the intersection of clinical risk and commercial strategy. Having architected growth for major HCIT firms and advised plans on operational integrity, he leads Magus with a single directive: Eliminate the friction between Buyer and Seller.

Core Services for Health Plans

RADV Readiness

Forensic Operational Audit (6-Weeks)

We deploy a “Red Team” to stress-test your current coding workflow, vendor outputs, and submission logic.

  • What we check: NLP False Positive rates, Delete Logic, OIG Target alignment.
  • Deliverable: A Board-Ready “Risk vs. Reality” Heatmap and a remediation roadmap.

” Know where you are exposed before CMS does “

Market Access & Deal Architecture

RFP-as-a-Service

The average RA leader spends 200 hours a year vetting vendors who all claim the same accuracy. We take that burden off your desk.

  • Our Process: We use our proprietary market data to identify the top 3 solutions for your specific population mix. We manage the RFP, score the pilots, and negotiate the contract.
  • Deliverable: A vetted shortlist and a negotiated contract, ready for signature.

” Market truth, delivered in 14 days “

About Tom Rhodes

CEO & Founder

An unexpected journey led Tom Rhodes to entrepreneurship, where he now thrives as a catalyst in healthcare through the company he founded, Magus Healthcare Consulting. Serving as a “Coding Services Broker” in the Risk Adjustment Village, Tom fosters impactful connections between third-party service providers and Health Plan vendors. With a wealth of experience from two decades representing Fortune 500 Healthcare IT giants, including GE Healthcare and Truven Health Analytics, he specializes in optimizing organizations’ access to high-volume, high-quality services at an efficient cost.

Armed with an MBA in Finance and Healthcare Administration from Northeastern University, Tom’s professional path was preceded by a successful college athletics career. He played football and contributed to the 2000 Final Four Men’s Basketball Team at the University of Wisconsin. Beyond business, Tom’s joys encompass family moments with his wife, Lexie, and daughter, Laurel, alongside their two canine companions, Milo and Ziggy. In his leisure, he finds fulfillment in reading, hot yoga, angel investing, his many advisory roles in companies, along with coaching his daughter’s soccer team—Go Rainbow Deer!