Christopher Ortmann Email & Phone Number

St. Louis, MO, US

St Louis, Missouri, United States

Madison, Wisconsin Area

• Functions as subject matter expert related to how unit costs impacts reimbursement within DHP. Shares unit cost trends and assumptions for annual budget and explains variances as relates to outliers and trends to.
• Shares DVC concepts and financial impacts with analytic and finance communities within Dean Health Plan. This includes in-person meetings and written communications to provide both high-level and detailed understanding.
• Analytics center for reimbursement issues. Leads team that provides ad hoc analysis to better understand unit cost increase variation to budget, including impact of coding changes, chargemaster trend reports to monitor.
• Migrated all in-network hospitals onto the Dean Value Contract (DVC), which had significant cost savings by reducing inpatient outlier qualifications and introduction of fixed rates for key outpatient cost centers.
• Developed models in support of negotiations to demonstrate how rate changes at the line level affected overall hospital reimbursement, and shared results as unit cost savings for budget purposes.
• Developed scorecards and participated in the selection of quality, satisfaction, and efficiency metrics for the duration of the contract.

• Managed Health Economics team to accommodate the influx of cross-functional requests from both corporate and regional consumers, while maintaining high customer satisfaction, excellent quality, and fast turnaround.
• Supported full-service direct health care model to state and regional prison/jail systems for over 290,000 inmates in over 20 states. Business model provides medical, dental, nursing, mental health, pharmacy and.
• Managed team of three analysts and programmers, and supported internal customer base from Executive Management, Finance, Contracting and Medical Management team, from both Corporate and Regions.
• Analyzed actual-to-budget variances and identification of key drivers. Generated forward-looking operational reports to manage critical metrics. Provided trend analyses to support regional forecasting assumptions and.
• Key Projects and Results
• Managed internal Health Economics and consulting team through the design and release of corporate Data Warehouse. Warehouse included the development of critical business metrics, executive dashboards and report suites.

• Managed Health Economics team to support corporate and regional ad hoc analysis needs for a Medicaid managed care business operating in nine states.
• Managed team of four analysts and supported internal customer base from multiple business functions.
• Responsible for developing metrics, business tools, and ongoing standardized reports to drive financial and operational performance, including trend analysis for regional forecasting purposes and cost management.
• Key projects and results
• Facilitated development and rollout of new business tools, including soliciting voice of the customer for development of, and training of business managers during rollout.
• Oversaw the design and development of several business critical reporting tools. These included report packages that helped support monthly finance flash reports.

• For commercial HMO/PPO, oversaw the reporting requirements for various types of risk arrangements; presented reports and conclusions to risk partner operating committees. Managed the final calculations for settlements.
• Developed and maintained spreadsheets for hospital contract modeling, professional utilization reports for comparative fee schedule analysis, and inpatient utilization reports used in quarterly board meetings.
• Led development of catalog and underlying tables to provide downstream cost analysis for PCP risk arrangement with the Data Warehouse team, developed and validated medical cost categorizations, provided PMPM measures.

Mba/Mha, Business/Health Administration

Ba, Biology, Music