Andrew Townsend Email & Phone Number

Responsible for providing state Medicaid agencies with assistance in rate setting activities, including implementation and maintenance of inpatient, outpatient, and physician payment methods. Duties include payment rate development, upper payment limit demonstration calculations, utilization analysis, and financial modeling.

Served on the Payment Method Development team as a consultant on a variety of projects for state Medicaid programs, assisting with data analysis and auditing, research, editing and fact-checking, improving the financial simulation process, and leading document preparation efforts. Projects worked on include− Implementation, annual ratesetting, monitoring, and provider training for inpatient hospital payment methods− Financial impact simulations and analysis for outpatient prospective payment system updates, and calculation of inpatient and outpatient completion factors− Assessments of potentially preventable events for Medicaid programs

Helena, Mt

Serves on the Payment Method Development team as a consultant on a variety of projects for state Medicaid programs, assisting with data analysis and auditing, research, editing and fact-checking, improving the financial simulation process, and leading document preparation efforts. Projects worked on include− Implementation, annual ratesetting, monitoring, and provider training for inpatient hospital payment methods− Financial impact simulations and analysis for outpatient prospective payment system updates, and calculation of inpatient and outpatient completion factors− Assessments of potentially preventable events for Medicaid programs

Fort Myers

Oversee newsroom operations after managing editors have left for the day. Coordinate work between reporters, photographers, copy editors and Nashville Design Studio. Assign breaking news stories to reporters and photographers.

Fort Myers, Fla.

Edit local, national and international news stories for spelling, grammar, accuracy and fairness while working on deadlines. Write headlines and photo captions. Coordinate work between reporters, photographers, editors and page design studio in Nashville, Tenn. Other contributions: Participated on strategic planning team to increase revenue from digital media. Helped create plan to implement a Southwest Florida dining app for mobile devices

Florida Gulf Coast University

Cover campus news events and sports for the student newspaper at Florida Gulf Coast University. Interview students, faculty, administrators, athletes and coaches. Take photographs, write stories and design pages. Assign reporters to cover stories and coach them on writing news articles.

Brooksville, Fla.

Attend youth and amateur adult sporting events across Central Florida. Keep detailed box scores and interview players and coaches. Write game stories on deadline and to specified lengths.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration And Management, General, 3.48

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), English, 3.6

Activities and Societies: Student Government Senator (2006-08)