Ashlee Sharp Email & Phone Number

Portland, Oregon

• Responsible for negotiating and approving all contracts to ensure compliance with appropriate laws, regulations, and company policies and procedures. • Draft new corporate contract templates, including provider network agreements and vendor/sales agreements. • Develop alternative payment methodologies and path to risk strategies, physician incentive programs, and diverse payment structures for non-traditional provider types. Created contract templates to reflect standard and unique… Show more • Responsible for negotiating and approving all contracts to ensure compliance with appropriate laws, regulations, and company policies and procedures. • Draft new corporate contract templates, including provider network agreements and vendor/sales agreements. • Develop alternative payment methodologies and path to risk strategies, physician incentive programs, and diverse payment structures for non-traditional provider types. Created contract templates to reflect standard and unique payment structures and incentives. • Represent FamilyCare at OHA’s Contracts and Compliance Workgroup – the forum for negotiating annual contract renewals and implementing state and federal regulation changes. • Brief executive team on Medicaid and Medicare regulation changes, contract interpretation, and general corporate matters. • Facilitate bi-monthly executive committee meeting to review proposals, bids, and contract modifications. Prepare negotiation memoranda, identify risks and mitigation strategies, and conduct financial impact analyses.• Implemented a new contracts management system and act as custodian for over 3,000 contracts, including all network agreements, single case agreements, service agreements, memorandum of understandings, business associate agreements, software and licensing agreements, non-disclosure agreements and government contracts.• Manage contract review, approval and execution in accordance with corporate policies and regulatory compliance. Brought discipline and structure to the contracting process. • Maintain and track internal contract deadlines and coordinate with functional counterparts and customers to manage contract renewals and updates, resolve contractual issues, and communicate contract policy to internal business teams.• Manage outside counsel related to contract disputes and litigation, specialized contract development and negotiation, discovery response, and litigation support. Show less

• • Drafted contracts, service level agreements, and letter of agreements with individual providers, provider groups, county health providers and hospital systems.• Negotiated contract terms, specifically pertaining to Medicaid and Medicare provider agreements and hospital agreements. • Evaluated provider applicants through network adequacy reporting and data documenting specific member needs and access. • Prepared strategic analyses to build FamilyCare’s provider network and… Show more • • Drafted contracts, service level agreements, and letter of agreements with individual providers, provider groups, county health providers and hospital systems.• Negotiated contract terms, specifically pertaining to Medicaid and Medicare provider agreements and hospital agreements. • Evaluated provider applicants through network adequacy reporting and data documenting specific member needs and access. • Prepared strategic analyses to build FamilyCare’s provider network and increase FamilyCare’s marketability. • Developed contracting strategies to meet specific network needs, including gender reassignment and behavioral health expansion.• Advised internal workgroup to support integrated health services through alternative payment methodologies to providers. Show less

Lake Oswego, Oregon

• Represent the interests of self-insured employers at hearings, depositions, mediation conferences and other proceedings before the Board of Industrial Insurance Appeals • Manage an extensive caseload before the Washington Department of Labor and Industries, Board of Industrial Insurance Appeals, and superior courts• Evaluate industrial injury claims and provide recommendations to limit costs and liability• Develop litigation strategies to resolve industrial injury claims and… Show more • Represent the interests of self-insured employers at hearings, depositions, mediation conferences and other proceedings before the Board of Industrial Insurance Appeals • Manage an extensive caseload before the Washington Department of Labor and Industries, Board of Industrial Insurance Appeals, and superior courts• Evaluate industrial injury claims and provide recommendations to limit costs and liability• Develop litigation strategies to resolve industrial injury claims and minimize client exposure• Negotiate complex settlements on behalf of self-insured employers • Prepare pleadings, motions and legal briefs in workers’ compensation appeals• Research complex legal issues pertaining to Washington and Oregon insurance/workers’ compensation defense, employment/labor law and general civil litigation Show less

Wilsonville, Oregon

• Managed bankruptcy proceeding including the negotiation of adequate assurance settlements • Reviewed internal and third party contracts to evaluate allocation of risk and terms• Negotiated, reviewed and drafted leases in support the Real Estate Department initiatives• Reviewed marketing and advertising materials regarding intellectual property issues, hold-harmless language, and compliance with sweepstakes law

Portland, Oregon

• Managed client relationships by conducting client interviews and case strategy meetings• Drafted domestic relations, estate planning, probate, and guardianship documents• Created settlement positions for complex property cases and unique parenting plans for contentious custody cases

• Investigated consumer fraud and deceptive marketing claims against the telecom industry with the Department of Justice• Independently managed a case load of 8-10 clients as a certified law student • Conducted legal research, developed legal strategy and drafted legal documents for family law cases

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East China University of Politics and Law, Summer 2006

Bachelor Of Arts: Journalism, Communication Studies, Minor Degrees In Business And Spanish

Dean’s List Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, México, Summer 2003