Steven Lavenda is a partner in the Advisory Services division and a member of the Healthcare Practice group. He joined Marcum in 2015 via the Firm's merger with Frost, Ruttenberg, & Rothblatt P.C., one of the largest full-service accounting firms in the Chicago region. After joining FROST in 1984, Mr. Lavenda was instrumental in growing the Firm's nationally renowned FROST Healthcare Consulting, Inc. and Healthcare Management Group, of which he was vice president as well as a founding member. In addition to managing the day-to-day operations of the group, Mr. Lavenda applied his more than 35 years of healthcare experience to help his clients administer their Medicaid reporting and reimbursement processes and navigate the ever-changing and complex regulations and operational issues facing the industry on a continual basis.