Who’s behind RevOptix1
Dani R. Larsen (she/her)
CEO, PDPM Audit Optimization Group, LLC
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 innovation that changed standard of care
Dani developed the Neonatal Early Lung Recruitment (NELR) protocol, which was awarded 2nd place nationally for clinical development. Implemented at Logan Regional Hospital (Logan, UT), the protocol saved $8 million in nine months — results strong enough that LRH ended the trial early and moved NELR directly into standard practice. It was subsequently adopted system-wide across Intermountain Healthcare.
She also received the prestigious AHRQ award for her research project “Dedicated Airway Management in the GI Lab,” establishing that a clinician skilled in airway management must be present during GI procedures. That research became a national GI standard of care and was written into Select Health insurance coverage policy.
Recognition
- AHRQ Award — Dedicated Airway Management in the GI Lab
- Educator of the Year — Intermountain Healthcare (the only non-nurse to receive this honor)
- Who’s Who in America — recognized twice: first as a high school student, and again 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.
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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