Massey receives NC State College of Management Distinguished Alumnus Award

February 16, 2007 - Gary Massey received the College of Management Distinguished Alumnus award from the North Carolina State University Alumni Association. The award was presented recently at the university’s “Evening of Stars” awards ceremony.

Massey (B.S., accounting and business management, ‘78) is a principal with the LarsonAllen CPA firm in Charlotte, N.C. He specializes in health care accounting, reimbursement and financial analysis, and has over 25 years of experience working with acute care, long-term care facilities and home care providers.

A skilled financial analyst, Massey specializes in business system improvement, financial modeling and operational reviews, and has an in-depth knowledge of Medicare and Medicaid rules and regulations.

“We are very pleased to welcome Gary into the college’s registry of distinguished alumni,” said Ira R. Weiss, dean of the N.C. State University College of Management. “His career reflects the leadership and commitment to service and professionalism that is a model for all our students.”

Massey is a frequent speaker on health care financial issues at various state and national organizations, and is a past chair of the N.C. Association of CPAs Health Care Conference committee. In 1994, he was appointed by the governor of North Carolina to serve as co-chair of an advisory committee to the N.C. Health Planning Commission to review long-term care benefits.

Massey is an active member of various state and national health care associations, and serves on a number of committees and task forces within these organizations. He also currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Maryland National Capital Homecare Association. For the Association for Hospice and Home Care (AHHC), he has served on the governmental affairs committee working for appropriate legislation for health care providers at the state and national levels.

He received the Dr. Ellen B. Winston award for a lifetime of dedicated service to the home care and hospice industries in 2005. He also has served on two national task forces; one worked with the health care industry to implement Medicare’s home health prospective payment system (PPS) and the other was involved with the training of providers in the preparation of the Medicare hospice cost report.