Leader in Grant Thornton Advisors national Healthcare Advisory practice focused on Operations Transformation. Extensive expertise assisting healthcare clients with transformation in the context of technology modernization and ERP, M&A, performance improvement, and regulatory changes.

Leader in Grant Thornton LLP’s national Healthcare Advisory practice focused on Operations Transformation. Extensive expertise assisting healthcare clients with transformation in the context of technology modernization and ERP, M&A, performance improvement, and regulatory changes.

Executive with diverse experience leading complex, transformational projects. Proven expertise in the areas of strategy, managed care, project management, process improvement, and financial analysis. Demonstrated ability to breakdown complicated issues into manageable pieces for analysis and resolution. Example experiences include:Deep Program Management experience that includes leadership of complex, transformational initiatives. Specifics include a multi-year project leading the implementation of a state-wide Health Information Exchange (HIE) platform for a governmental agency; program included implementation of the overall HIE infrastructure, leadership in the development of products and services to support financial viability, development of operating processes, and eventual go-live and on-boarding of initial participants. Overall Program Lead for a large scale ERP implementation and consolidation for an 11 hospital system. Responsibilities include day-to-day management of a team of 15 direct reports, as well as coordination and collaboration between both host vendor and client teams. Success leading 10+ strategy engagements focused on managed care, payment reform and joint venture financial modeling. Deep experience in the area of process improvement in both the payer and provider arena, including engagements focused on finance process improvement (financial close, cash reconciliation, financial operations and finance transformation). Project lead on 5+ revenue cycle performance improvement projects leading to 10% increase in cash collections, 12% reduction in denials (year-over-year), and 15% reduction in outstanding AR.

Manager in Grant Thornton's Health Care Advisory practice responsible for leading projects with provider and payer clients. Specific expertise related to managed care contracting, operations improvement and strategy development in a provider setting. Operations and process improvement experience in both traditional health payers and pharmacy benefit manager settings.

Consultant focused on payor operations business process improvement. Additional focus on provider strategy and managed care. Serve large commercial payors, Medicare & Medicaid HMO's and providers of all sizes.

Senior consultant in the Managed Care and Claims Management service lines. Responsibilities include conducted internal and external payor benchmarking analysis, payor specific negotiation analytics, and managed care strategy development.