Gregory B. Root, Esq.

Biographical Information

Gregory Root serves as the Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel of CodeMap. CodeMap offers a variety of services to hospitals, clinical laboratories, pathologists, and the diagnostic manufacturing industry. CodeMap services include compliance program audits, regulatory consulting, the provision of Medicare coverage data files, and online compliance training. CodeMap also publishes the highly successful CodeMap® series of coding, coverage, reimbursement, and compliance manuals. 

Gregory Root has over 25 years experience in regulatory and legal compliance, the coding, coverage, and reimbursement requirements of federally funded health care programs, and laboratory economics. Presently, he concentrates on regulatory and legislative consulting and designing and implementing compliance programs for hospitals and independent laboratories. 

He speaks frequently for many professional organizations including the AACC and the CLMA. Mr. Root is also the author of The CodeMap® Compliance Policy Manual and contributing author and editor of the CodeMap® Compliance Briefing, a biweekly email newsletter distributed to more than 11,000 subscribers.

Gregory Root is a member of the Health Law section of the American Bar Association, the Chicago Bar Association, and the American Association of Clinical Chemists. He graduated with honors from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX, with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and earned his Juris Doctorate from the School of Law at Loyola University, Chicago.