Who’s behind RevOptix1
Dani R. Larsen (she/her)
CEO, PDPM Audit Optimization Group, LLC
- Published in McKnight’s Long-Term Care News
- Patent-pending SNF audit methodology (RevOptix1)
- Six months reverse-engineering OIG’s first PDPM audit
Dani R. Larsen spent six months reverse-engineering OIG’s first PDPM audit of Pinnacle Multicare before founding PDPM Audit Optimization Group — not to chase the headline, but because the documentation patterns OIG flagged were patterns she had been seeing for years, in facilities with no connection to Pinnacle, COVID, or the Bronx.
Before turning to audit defense, Dani built a career spanning clinical care, hospital operations, healthcare education, project management, and financial compliance. That combination is rare — and it’s exactly why RevOptix1 reads a chart the way an auditor does, not the way a software vendor does.
Dani holds a BS in Respiratory Therapy from Weber State University and an MBA from Utah State University, where she also served as Financial Compliance Officer — overseeing land-grant trust assets held across every county office in the state.
Career highlights
Clinical work Dani reports from her hospital career
Dani developed the Neonatal Early Lung Recruitment (NELR) protocol. She reports that the protocol was awarded 2nd place nationally for clinical development, implemented at Logan Regional Hospital (Logan, UT), and that the organization’s internal account associated it with an approximately $8 million result in nine months. According to that same account, LRH ended the trial early, moved NELR into standard practice, and later adopted it system-wide across Intermountain Healthcare. Supporting trial publications are not posted on this page.
She also reports receiving an AHRQ award for her research project “Dedicated Airway Management in the GI Lab,” which examined whether a clinician skilled in airway management should be present during GI procedures. She reports that this work informed GI practice expectations and was later reflected in Select Health insurance coverage policy. It is not presented here as a CMS, specialty-society, or national regulatory standard.
Recognition
- McKnight’s Long-Term Care News — published expert contributor (June 2026). Independently verifiable: the Pinnacle audit column.
- AHRQ award — Dani reports receiving this recognition for “Dedicated Airway Management in the GI Lab.” Award year and public announcement are not posted here.
- Educator of the Year — Dani reports receiving this honor from Intermountain Healthcare and that she was the only non-nurse recipient in the year she received it.
- Who’s Who in America — Dani reports being listed twice: first as a high school student, and later as a business owner.
Building healthcare infrastructure
As Director of Education and Project Manager at Franklin County Medical Center (Preston, ID), Dani led a series of facility-transforming initiatives:
- Brought certification training in-house. ACLS, PALS, NRP, and BLS programs were established at FCMC for the first time — staff had previously traveled to Portneuf Medical Center or Logan Regional Hospital for training. Delivering education in their own facility, with their own equipment, made a measurable difference in staff engagement and preparedness.
- Reopened dormant inpatient rooms, restoring revenue-generating capacity that had sat unused for years.
- Led a full SNF remodel that materially increased occupancy.
- Converted a former shoe store into a state-of-the-art physical therapy facility, including securing an Elks Lodge grant to help fund the build.
- Managed a full hospital expansion — from historical financial reporting through bond financing to construction — taking a small Critical Access Hospital to a full surgical wing. The expansion drove significant revenue growth and helped recruit talented clinicians to an area that had historically been difficult to staff.
Verification and sources
What is independently posted vs. reported
Claims on this page that are not linked to a public record are Dani’s account of her prior clinical and operational work. They are not presented as independently audited outcomes of PDPM Audit Optimization Group or RevOptix1.
| Claim | Status | Source / limitation |
|---|---|---|
| McKnight’s Long-Term Care News column | Independently posted | June 2026. Public article on McKnight’s. |
| NELR protocol; ~$8 million / nine months; Intermountain adoption | Reported / not posted | Dani reports this from Logan Regional Hospital / Intermountain Healthcare internal accounts. Trial publications, award year, and institution press releases are not posted on this site. |
| AHRQ award — Dedicated Airway Management in the GI Lab | Reported / not posted | Dani reports receiving this recognition. Award year, record number, and public announcement are not posted here. |
| Select Health coverage policy influence | Reported / not posted | Dani reports the GI-airway work was later reflected in Select Health policy. The policy document is not posted here and is not described as a CMS or specialty-society national standard. |
| Intermountain Educator of the Year | Reported / not posted | Dani reports receiving this honor and that she was the only non-nurse recipient in the year she received it. Award year and institutional announcement are not posted. |
| Who’s Who in America (twice) | Reported / not posted | Dani reports listings as a high-school student and later as a business owner. Listing years and archived pages are not posted. |
| Franklin County Medical Center initiatives | Reported / not posted | Dani reports these as her work as Director of Education and Project Manager. Facility records are not posted on this site. |
Media or diligence requests for documentation: audit-defense@pdpmauditgroup.com.
Why this matters for RevOptix1
Not engineers guessing at compliance.
RevOptix1 wasn’t built by engineers guessing what compliance looks like. It was built by someone who has sat in the budget meeting, run the clinical trial, trained the staff, signed off on the financial reporting — and spent six months taking apart the first OIG PDPM audit line by line.
We know what auditors look for because we’ve read the same records they read. When you hand us a chart, you’re not handing it to a vendor dashboard. You’re handing it to someone who has been on both sides — and built the technology to close the gap between them.
Patent-pending cross-EMR methodology and registered IP — licensing details available to partners and counsel on request.
Connect
Reach Dani and the team
- Website
- pdpmauditgroup.com
- Phone
- (385) 888-7447
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