Graham Fox Email & Phone Number

Marietta, Georgia, United States

Independent adviser to healthcare systems. Focused on physician practice operations, finance and integrating ambulatory strategy with hospital/ system vision.

Specializes in physician practice/health system integration and operations. Led numerous projects in organizational development, operational efficiency, and physician compensation redesign, as well as physician integration, mergers and acquisitions, practice establishments, turnarounds and physician employment agreement negotiations. Pershing Yoakley &.

Georgia

• Advised Vice-President and physician leadership on all aspects of practice financials, provider compensation and fiscal-year budgets including detailed analysis of budget variances.
• Created and delivered monthly executive reports including revenue cycle performance, financial status and strategic proforma projections. Reports were often utilized at system-level Board of Trustee meetings.
• Trusted member of service line cabinet as well as the health-system financial leadership team. Met frequently with President, Vice Presidents, Chief Financial Officer, Comptroller and Chief Compliance Officer.
• Advised health system leadership in gross revenue adjustments (Charge Master), mapping financial effects as well as potential public relations risks.
• Assisted service line leadership through Epic implementation including the financial team build for a 35-physician specialty practice. Specific leadership included:o Pre and post implementation management of bill.

Daton, GA

• Promoted from Executive Director, January 2014In addition to the Executive Director accomplishments listed below:
• Oversaw development and implantation of practice-wide strategic plan including infusion of physician leadership.
• Developed novel approaches to managing the enterprise including development of operational reporting systems and reports.
• Led all physician negotiations and business development activities including provider recruitment and retention.
• Installed a practice wide EHR/ EPM (athenahealth) which lead to a sustained 16% improvement in cash collections and 30% decrease in DAR in less than 60 days.
• Reengineered provider compensation plans to include operational and strategic metrics including fair market value and commercial reasonableness processes.

• Built a brand new physician practice enterprise leading all operational, strategic and financial decisions including practice acquisitions, integration and recruitment. Was "employee #1" in the organization and grew it.
• Oversaw the development of all policies and procedures - especially those unique to a physician practice operating within a large regional health system.
• Co-Chaired multidisciplinary hospital team through a Strategic Cost Reduction process identifying $1.7MM savings.

Georgia

Assessed the feasibility of a “house call” focused physician practice including the development of a implementation plan, competitor analysis, financial proformas, and policies and procedures for a large home health agency in Atlanta/ North Georgia.

• Integrated three distinct cardiology practices into one corporation, culture, workflows, and operational infrastructure.
• Partnered with physicians on revenue cycle improvements, vendor consolidations, staffing models and clinic design.
• Implemented cost cutting initiatives including workforce planning and non-labor cost reductions
• Installed Studer Group service excellence programs achieving 92nd percentile nationally in overall satisfaction (Press Ganey).

• The Emory Clinic is the faculty practice of Emory University.SENIOR ADMINISTRATOR - CARDIOLOGY and EMORY HEART AND VASCULAR CENTER, 2004-2008Managed $102MM Gross Revenue budget, 35 physicians and 147 non-physician FTEs.
• Fostered net revenue growth of 139% in three years at 22 outreach locations and 12% at campus based locations
• Raised Downstream Contribution Margin from outreach clinics by $10MM (85%)
• Assisted in designing, implementing and managing productivity based physician comp plans
• Operationalized marketing and communication plans for IP and OP CV services
• Developed six new clinics and oversaw physician recruiting efforts

Greater Atlanta Area

• Led analysis of insurance companies and pharmaceutical benefits managers for a US Territory Medicaid program.
• Guided the divestment of a primary care network by a $1B hospital system: Transaction included analysis in physician productivity/ compensation, business operations, accounts receivable and cost allocations.
• Redesigned claims and back office operations for a 500K member HMO with ROI in excess of $5MM
• Assisted in organizational development and design of CBO for a multi-hospital system merger

Master Of Public Health - Mph, Management And Policy

Mph, Heath Policy And Management

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Biology-Psychology

Ba, Biology/ Psychology, Cum Laude