First Healthcare Compliance

Founded in 2012 in Wilmington, DE by Julie Sheppard, First Healthcare Compliance is a privately-owned women business enterprise created to address the void of healthcare compliance resources available to help physicians and other healthcare providers in private practice, hospital networks and health systems, healthcare billing companies and skilled nursing facilities comply with federal rules and

regulations. Professionally as a nurse and an attorney, coupled with her personal perspective as a physician’s spouse, Julie Sheppard identified a widening gap between the expectations of government and the reality of healthcare compliance. Witnessing firsthand the increasing demands of complying with federal rules and regulations, her concern escalated. The challenges of managing healthcare compliance became the sole focus for Julie to resolve not only for her spouse, but other healthcare providers confronting this. This became the impetus of the mission and the formation of First Healthcare Compliance.