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Nashville, Tn, Us

Providing market analysis, site selection, and real estate development services across industries. Working with old friends in new ways.

Nashville, Tn, Us

Nashville, Tn, Us

Ran all local and office functions allowing team to be client, development and research focused.• HR – payroll, benefits, onboarding, internship program (20 interns).• Office – AP/AR, cash management, financials, contract management, insurance, taxes/tax credits, office space.• IT – Built and maintained domain and user cyber security policies and enforcement, BYOD management, domain management and communication platforms.• Marketing – social media, web site (WordPress), SEO, newsletters, conferences (hosting and attending), press releases, industry group memberships.

Nashville, Tn, Us

• Co-Hosted Distributed Health 1 & 2, the largest global Blockchain Healthcare Conference with 700+ attendees in Nashville.• Ran and maintained The Nashville Blockchain Meetup, with more than 1,100 members.• Spent time on Capitol Hill in DC and Nashville educating staffers and committees about Blockchain generally and later specifically to Healthcare. • Spoke at numerous conferences and round tables across the country about blockchain.

Brentwood, Tennessee, Us

Monogram Health is dedicated to improving the well being, quality of life and health outcomes for our patients with chronic kidney disease by partnering with the nation's leading specialists to provide transformative kidney care. Monogram Health supports patients suffering from Chronic Kidney Disease by forming deep rooted relationships and preparing them both emotionally and physically for the challenges of managing kidney disease. We utilize next generation artificial intelligence algorithms to predict necessary and timely care to promote the delay of kidney disease progression, seamless transitions to dialysis, palliative care and/or pre-emptive kidney transplant, as well as to optimize our patients’ health outcomes once on dialysis.

Plano, Tx, Us

Led transition team for purchased clinics. Successfully integrated five distinct companies, cultures and clinical systems. Continued to run acquisition integration and de novo launch side of M&A Team. Additionally responsible for all corporate communication, PR, branding, web & social presence, trade shows, conferences, and collateral.• Developed and deployed insurance retention and Affordable Care Act outreach programs that touched every non-Medicare patient.• Retained revenue recognition, budget, bonus program, cost reporting and field reporting responsibilities.

Plano, Tx, Us

Led the transition team and integration process after sale to DaVita, including 110 Centers, 8,000 patients and 2,200 employees absorbed or sold by DaVita.• Actively involved in turnaround, diligence, and refinance processes that led to:­ G&A improvement of more than $10 per treatment ($12M annual).­ Patient care costs decline of $14 per treatment ($16M annual).­ Cash collections increase from historical rate of 62% of every dollar recognized in net revenue to 100% of every dollar being collected.• Responsible for monthly revenue recognition and patient and payor trends. • Built initial impact models for Medicare Bundled Payment; challenged and saw adjustments to several aspects of CMS’s proposed rule.• Oversaw Cost Report submission and audits ($8M recovered in 2011).• Built and deployed interactive models to simplify collection inputs for field and corporate budgets.

Plano, Tx, Us

• Created centralized reporting depot for recurring field, regional, and corporate reporting and scorecards.• Designed and tracked field and corporate bonus programs and employee merit increase/review process.• Built staffing, scheduling, and benchmark tracking models that allowed field staff/managers to see the financial and operational effects of their decisions and how best to make changes.

Brentwood, Tn, Us

• Performed third party due diligence related to the merger of two hospital systems in Knoxville, TN. Built contract, efficiency, and combined entity models and successfully worked through FTC approval. Merged system had more than 6,000 employees, 800 physicians, and 1,200 beds.• Provided and implemented strategic plans for hospital systems, hospitals and healthcare companies. • Successfully supported and opposed multiple Certificate of Need (CON) applications.• Provided buyer/seller third party due diligence reports for healthcare transactions.

Us

• Developed Operational Scorecard for units within Business Services Group (Call Centers, Research & Implementation Depts.), which required migration of all groups to standardized reporting systems.• Migrated operational reporting to an automated subscription-driven report server (14,000 self-serv reports delivered in June 2006).• Performed efficiency studies, created process flows, and redesigned workflows for call centers and implementation functions at primary domestic and international operation centers.• Responsible for executive level ad hoc operational reporting, quick turnaround analysis, and presentation building.• Ran transaction data rooms for operations department.

Mba | Master Of Business Administration, Operations & Finance

Ba | Bachelor Of Arts, Political Science & English Literature

College Preparatory Graduate