# Strategic Management Services, LLC - **Type:** Advisory firm - **Website:** https://www.compliance.com/ - **Assessed by:** The Assurance Desk (Add-Venture Advisory Ltd) A US healthcare compliance consultancy offering interim HIPAA privacy officers and help after a healthcare data breach. ## Strategic Management Services scores Scored 1 to 5 on six criteria. There is no overall score. ### Help when things go wrong: 3/5 Leadership pedigree (former HHS-OIG, CMS, FBI staff) and a named CIA/breach-response practice signal real defence capability, but no case study or named enforcement outcome is published to verify it. ### Qualifications of the people who do the work: 4/5 President and named staff hold CHC, CHPC and CCEP credentials from HCCA/SCCE, and the founder served 11 years as HHS Inspector General. ### What it publishes about fees: 1/5 No fee schedule, pricing model or rate card is published anywhere on compliance.com; every engagement routes to a sales enquiry. ### Knowledge of your sector: 4/5 Deep, decades-long healthcare-only specialism with named HIPAA practitioners, though CCPA/CPRA and state AI-law expertise is unproven. ### Independence from what it sells: 3/5 Consulting is run separately from the sister Compliance Resource Center software, but that subscription product is actively cross-promoted to consulting clients. ### Who carries the risk if the advice is wrong: 2/5 No professional-indemnity insurance, liability cap or work guarantee is disclosed anywhere on the firm's public website. ## Sources for Strategic Management Services Every line carries the page it was read on and the date it was checked. - Strategic Management Services, LLC is registered in Virginia as a Limited Liability Company, company number S1660663, with status Active. - Source: https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_va/S1660663 - Checked: 2026-09-20 - The firm was founded in 1992 by Richard Kusserow, a former Inspector General of the US Department of Health and Human Services. - Source: https://www.compliance.com/about-us/experience/ - Checked: 2026-09-20 - President Carrie Kusserow holds CHC, CHPC and CCEP credentials and has over 20 years of healthcare compliance experience. - Source: https://www.compliance.com/consultants/carrie-kusserow/ - Checked: 2026-09-20 - The firm's Data Breach Support practice names staff who handle HIPAA privacy investigations, breach risk assessments, breach notification letters and OCR reporting. - Source: https://www.compliance.com/focus_area/data-breach-support/ - Checked: 2026-09-20 - The firm is headquartered at 6350 Walker Lane, Ste. 550, Alexandria, VA 22310, reachable at 800-683-9601. - Source: https://www.compliance.com/ - Checked: 2026-09-20 ## What this provider publishes Not published means we did not find it on the firm's own pages. - Price: Not published - Indemnity cover: Not published - Credentials: Published - Independent accreditation: Not published - Client results: Not published - How it uses AI: Not published ## Strengths - Decades-long, founder-led specialism in healthcare regulatory compliance, started by a former 11-year HHS Inspector General. - Named privacy practitioners (Carrie Kusserow, Lisa Shuman, Robbi-Lynn Watnik) hold recognized healthcare-privacy credentials (CHC, CHPC, CCEP) and run a real, named Interim/Designated HIPAA Privacy Officer service line. - Team includes former staff of HHS-OIG, CMS and the FBI, giving direct familiarity with federal healthcare enforcement processes such as Corporate Integrity Agreements. ## Things to check Each one carries the factual basis it rests on. - No case study or named client engagement is published to evidence actual breach-response or OCR-defense outcomes. - Basis: The interim-privacy-officers and data-breach-support pages list staff expertise only, with no named client results. - The privacy practice is scoped to HIPAA/healthcare; no CCPA/CPRA or state AI-law practice evidence was found. - Basis: Site content and searches surface only HIPAA/OIG-focused services, none addressing CCPA/CPRA or state AI statutes. - No fee schedule or pricing model is published anywhere on the firm's site. - Basis: Homepage, services and interim-privacy-officer pages all route pricing to a sales enquiry with no published rates. ## Where this firm appears - [Do you need a data protection officer?](https://theassurancedesk.com/best/first-appointment) - [After a data breach: what UK law asks of you](https://theassurancedesk.com/best/post-breach) - [Your sector adds its own rules to UK data protection law](https://theassurancedesk.com/best/sector-regulated) - [Compare providers](https://theassurancedesk.com/compare) --- **Scope.** The Assurance Desk covers data protection, AI governance and cyber security in the United Kingdom and the United States. It scores providers in both: UK-facing firms, and firms based in the United States. Every provider scored so far was selected for data-protection, AI-governance or security-assurance work. Where a page describes law, it names the country that law applies in. **Who publishes this.** The Assurance Desk is published by Add-Venture Advisory Ltd, company number 11854524, registered in England and Wales. The same owner runs Avouch, a marketing agency that sells AI visibility services to firms of the kind this site covers. That is a conflict of interest, and it is disclosed here. **Corrections.** If you represent this firm and something here is wrong or out of date, email hello@theassurancedesk.com with the evidence.