Rajesh “Raj” Godavarthi

Rajesh “Raj” Godavarthi has been with MCG since 2003 and he oversees a team that are building the key interoperability solutions that are outlined in MCG’s roadmap for the future. In addition, Mr. Godavarthi is MCG’s primary representative in the HL7 Da Vinci Project. MCG has been an Associate Member of this consortium since 2019, and Mr. Godavarthi has led our efforts to support industry stakeholders developing new HL7 FHIR standards which will allow for improved interoperability and communication between payers and providers. In September 2021, Mr. Godavarthi was named the co-lead for the HL7 Da Vinci Project’s burden reduction use cases in prior auth support (PAS), coverage requirement discovery (CRD), and documentation templates and rules (DTR). In July 2021, he became a member of the WEDI Prior Authorization Subworkgroup. They are a leading authority on the use of health IT to efficiently improve health information exchange, enhance care quality, and reduce costs.