Talbot has over forty years of financial management experience in the healthcare industry. Talbot has experience working in hospitals of all sizes, long-term acute care facilities, skilled nursing facilities, intermediate care facilities, retirement communities, ambulatory care clinics, home health agencies, preferred provider organizations and physicians’ private practices.Talbot’s broad range of third party payer experience includes Medicare/Medicaid/MediCal cost reporting (responsible for the preparation of over 500 cost reports), California (“CA”) Annual Disclosure Reports, Medicare/Medicaid/MediCal disproportionate share (“DSH”) and Medicare reimbursable bad debt determinations, DSH audit surveys, CA HQAF, Missouri FRA, electronic health record, contractual allowance reserve determinations, development and implementation of pro-ration systems, hindsight review for bad debt reserve determinations, Intermediary and financial audit support, Medicare/Medicaid/MediCal appeals, regulatory review and compliance, fraud and abuse issues including risk analysis and negotiations with the US DOJ, the OIG and State AGs, expert testimony before the PRRB, the State of Maryland and the District of Columbia, and the development of new reimbursement methods including authoring State Plan Amendments approved by CMS.Talbot’s range of other healthcare experience includes financial feasibility studies, cash flow enhancement services, turnaround and restructuring services, negotiation of Asset and Stock Purchase Agreements, securing and structuring financings, due diligence services, accounts receivable borrowing base valuations, Hart-Scott-Rodino filings, Certificate of Need Applications, Attorney General approvals, HUD applications, operational implementation of a preferred provider network for a national trade union, and corporate restructuring from Chapter 11. Talbot has also served as the chief financial officer for a large hospital company and two community hospitals.