Dean Kellner Email & Phone Number

Wausau, Wisconsin Area

Tracking Industry Trends such as Anesthesiology, Physician Group Practice, Provider Relations & Network Development.

Wausau, Wisconsin Area

• Adminstrative Director of Provider Relations and Network DevelopmentResponsible for cultivating and fostering robust, trusting relationships with ANI providers, practice leaders, and insurance company representatives.
• Provide leadership and strategic direction to two of the four core network governance committees: o Network Engagement to achieve multi-channel communication approaches that foster relationship building two-way.
• Facilitate relationships between member practices and the Aspirus Health system and commercial payors to enhance relationships that improve care coordination and expand community access to the Aspirus Health system.
• Arbitrate high level/complex issue resolution between ANI member practices and commercial insurance companies to an appropriate and fair conclusion.
• Co-chair of the Physician Relations Counsel: An Aspirus Health System senior leadership counsel responsible for understanding and improving the relationship of the health system with its provider practices.

Wausau, Wisconsin Area

• Responsible for overall practice operations, payor contracting, strategic planning, facility relationships, CRNA (Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist) relationships, non-provider staff development, maintaining.
• Facilitate physician consensus and decision making through effective communication, identification of practice goals, investigation of alternative solutions, presentation of financial and operational impact analysis.
• Implement and maintain the physician/administrator team concept to garner physician input and streamline decision-making and establish physician/administrator committees to address specific practice areas such as.
• Liaison on behalf of the practice to its facilities, other private practices, and the health system working collaboratively to identify and resolve issues and plan for future needs.
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with private practices and the hospital/health system to improve communication, knowledge transfer, and clinical integration through active participation in the Independent.

• Manage client relationships, understand client needs and coordinate resources to meet client expectations by working collaboratively with practice managers and physicians to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of.
• Provided strategic, operational, financial, and payor contracting advisory services to physician groups: o Financial and operational benchmarking, analysis, planning and development of related strategies and budgets. o.
• Developed the firm’s third-party payor contract evaluation and negotiation service line.

Marshfield, WI

• Managed the inherent risk of fair pricing from the standpoint of customer satisfaction and financial optimization for over one billion dollars of gross charges.
• Led the development and implementation of major pricing methodology revisions affecting over 700 providers in 84 specialties by working directly with leadership, division administrators, physicians and department.
• Chairperson – Operational Pricing Strategies Workgroup. Also, led various cross-functional teams to identify issues and improve processes e.g. drug acquisition cost reporting for evaluation of clinically appropriate.
• Participated in legislative advocacy projects including direct workings with the Clinic’s Washington lobbyist and participated in a presentation to CMS.

Marshfield, WI

• Major responsibilities included:
• Coordination, preparation, and interpretation of annual audited and interim external financial statements.
• Participated in work groups for practice acquisitions and mergers, capital equipment budgets, reimbursement and fee schedule issues, revenue bond issuance.
• Revenue bond compliance and reporting.
• Oversight of fixed asset accounting and reporting.

Marshfield, WI

Marshfield, WI

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Health/Health Care Administration/Management

Bachelor Of Business Administration - Bba, Accounting And Business/Management