Kiet Lam, MPH
Founder | CEO
Kiet has over 22 years of reimbursement and revenue cycle leadership experience. Prior to founding Climb Healthcare in January of 2023, he served as a senior partner at Triage Consulting Group where he led multiple large scale payment review consulting engagements for some of the largest health systems in the nation. While at Triage, Kiet also facilitated the development of multiple service lines and departments, including its Medicare Review Services and R&D group. After Triage’s merger with RevInt to form Cloudmed, he served as Principal of Cloudmed’s Coverage Discovery Unit where he led the build out of the solution and operations team.
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Kiet has been an active leader in the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) for the past 17 plus years and currently serves as a board member of the Oregon Chapter. He also held several leadership roles for the Southern California chapter and has spoken at multiple HFMA conferences.
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Earning a Bachelors of Science in Molecular Biology from UCLA, Kiet continued pursuing his passion for healthcare with the pursuit of a Masters of Public Health in Health Services Management, which he also earned from UCLA. He is a Bruin through and through and proudly serves as President of UCLA’s Academic Advancement Program Alumni Network, which focuses on building a community to support first generation graduates who come from underprivileged and underrepresented backgrounds.
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