“If we embrace change, and if we continue to learn, we are going to be successful.”
— Kevin Londeen, CPA
Member, Executive Committee
“If we embrace change, and if we continue to learn, we are going to be successful.”
— Kevin Londeen, CPA
Member, Executive Committee
Medicare and Medicaid, government programs providing health care services to our nation’s most vulnerable citizens, had been introduced in 1965. By 1973, these programs were growing so large, so fast, the massive amount of complicated work in maintaining them had become overwhelming.
Our two founders saw an opportunity.
But from this simple beginning, a great company emerged. Bruce Myers and Darrell Stauffer were Midwest teachers who believed in treating people honestly and fairly, and devoted themselves to doing ‘a job well done’ in everything they did. These are the values the company was founded on, and the values we still hold dear today.
We began providing rate setting services for the state of Indiana and opened an office there in 1982. In 1984, we opened an office in Denver, Colorado to perform the state’s cost report audits. Boise, ID, Harrisburg, PA, and Kansas City, MO all followed. More and more health care experts were added to the team. The type of work we were doing for our clients was expanding, as well. Rate setting. Cost report audits. Program integrity. Myers and Stauffer’s growth, in office locations, employees and services offered was steady, consistent, and expected.
One of the main reasons for this rapid expansion was a decision made early on at the founding of the company. Myers and Stauffer would only accept state and federal government clients. There would be no conflicts of interest with private or public health care organizations.
As the years went by, Myers and Stauffer continued to grow and evolve. We merged with Mayer Hoffman McCann LC in 1995. In 1998 we became an independent subsidiary of CBIZ. Our main competitor, PHBV Partners, was acquired in 2013. These moves offered many new opportunities for us and set the stage for the current success we enjoy.
We have come a long way from the early days in Topeka, Kansas. We now have offices in 20 different locations across the country and have grown from just a handful of professionals to hundreds of dedicated team members from multi-disciplinary practice areas.
Some things have not changed since our firm began. Millions of people still depend on Medicaid and Medicare, budgets are still too small, costs are very high, and some still try to take advantage of the system. Most importantly, our commitment to always providing our clients with the very best we have to offer has never wavered. From our first day, we have never compromised our integrity or our quality of work, and we never will.
We are proud of our history. For more than 40 years, we have helped strengthen and protect the health care services that the most vulnerable of our fellow citizens depend on. Our government clients know when they need something done right, Myers and Stauffer is who they call.