Tracy Gordy, MD

Consultant, Joint Commission International

Tracy Gordy has 48 years of experience in behavioral health care and general medicine. Dr. Gordy’s broad background includes teaching in a residency program, serving as both an assistant medical director and a medical director, and maintaining a private practice. He also has experience managing complex organizations in organized medicine.

Dr. Gordy was in the private practice of psychiatry, as well as in the general hospital and in psychiatric facilities, from 1965 until 2001. During this time, he also taught in both a family practice and a psychiatric residency program. His involvement in teaching led to the presidency of a foundation that supervised and directed a multi-specialty training program. In the hospital arena, he directed both a geriatric and an affective care program. Subsequently, he became a medical director in a freestanding psychiatric hospital that later became a facility in a large hospital system.

In 1990, Dr. Gordy became a member of the American Medical Association Current Procedural Terminology Panel (CPT), and in 1999, he became chair of CPT. During this period, he also served in the American Psychiatric Association Assembly where he chaired the Area V group. Both positions required making policy decisions for medical practice.

Dr. Gordy has done multiple teaching consultations for organizations in the area of physician and hospital coding and Medicare reimbursement. Dr. Gordy’s consulting expertise includes staff credentialing, medication management systems, education of staff in leadership areas, and quality improvement for staff organizations.

He has consulted throughout the United States and for Joint Commission International in the Americas, Asia Pacific, Middle East and Europe.

He received his bachelor of arts degree from the University of Texas; and his doctor of medicine from University of Texas Medical Branch.

He is board certified in psychiatry, with special qualifications in geriatric psychiatry, by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He is a member of the American Medical Association, American Psychiatric Association, and Texas Medical Association. He is also a consultant for the Social Security Administration.