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San Antonio, Tx, Us

Arlington, Va, Us

Bethesda, Maryland, Us

Bethesda, Maryland, Us

Leads cross-functional efforts to design and implement sustainable processes to foster effective business development activities at a rapidly growing startup. Accountable for identifying and prioritizing strategic improvement opportunities and all aspects of implementation, including: stakeholder communication needs, business requirements for system and process improvements, change management, and evaluation. Leads solutioning workgroups in concert with other areas of the business to break down silos, address bottlenecks, and ensure emerging issues are addressed in accordance with business strategy. Manages staff in a matrixed organization to ensure operational workstreams function smoothly. Engage peers, leaders, and junior staff to foster buy-in and advance communication of coming changes and to provide subject matter input.

Bethesda, Maryland, Us

Partners with health plans, including fostering strong relationships with executives and identifying opportunities for strategic growth through value-based arrangements. Leverages technical health policy expertise to analyze and negotiate contractual terms that enable better outcomes and value for patients, enhanced incentive opportunities for providers, and cost-of-care savings for payers; works across multiple lines of business (e.g., Commercial, Medicare Advantage, and Managed Medicaid populations). Educates providers on new value-based arrangements and opportunities to achieve shared savings through a variety of value-based care programs. Fosters relationships with internal cross-functional teams in order to execute the work and drive continuous improvement across value-based arrangements, including Legal, Performance, Product, Tech, and Operations.Key Results: Led negotiation of contracts with national and local payers across Medicare Advantage, Commercial, and Medicaid lines of business, resulting in 10K added lives under management (LUM). Played a key support role in executing 10-year deal with national payer, resulting in geographical expansion across 13 states. Developed a variety of standardized processes to ensure due diligence in the contracting process, orchestrate handoffs to downstream teams, and ensure accurate data transfer between Aledade and Payers.

Indianapolis, Indiana, Us

Program lead with financial responsibility for a large-scale alternative payment model for specialists, worth $1B in cost of care across cardiac, orthopedic, GI, and women's services across 13 states. Builds and leads a cross-functional coalition of internal and external stakeholders to implement the program, evolving approach with the emergence of new best practices and organizational goals. Manages relationships with contracting personnel, providers, vendors, and associations to continuously drive growth and results. Provides subject matter expertise to support business development. Guides and supports internal staff to refine program operations and develop new programs, resulting in considerable savings to the organization and members. Monitors and reports on program financial and operational status against goals, elevating risk as appropriate. Supports capacity building through hiring and onboarding new team members.

Mclean, Va, Us

Program manager and performance improvement expert with experience in 11 value-based care models and provider quality improvement. Maintained oversight for large and small project teams, financial forecasting, and performance. Managed collaborative relationships with clients, as well as anticipated and mitigated risk. Provided cross-functional consulting expertise to project teams around change management, process improvement, and stakeholder engagement. Managed multiple deadlines and led scrums to ensure on-time, high-quality delivery. Extensive experience in CMS and VA. Led strategic business development teams to conduct competitive research, capture, and market sensing to develop new capabilities for clients in the Federal value-based care market space. Managed numerous proposal efforts, authored technical responses, and assisted with pricing in multiple facets of the healthcare market, resulting in the generation of over $56M in the healthcare book of business.

Falls Church, Virginia, Us

Practice leader with oversight for all departmental operations, staff, financials, and strategic planning for executive health. Managed client relationships for a portfolio of 45 organizations, including several Fortune 500 companies. Developed a business plan for a rapidly growing concierge medical practice, including opportunities to expand the group’s portfolio of services. Served as an “on the ground” expert in process improvement, financial management, and talent development in the design of initiatives to meet departmental growth, cost, and innovation goals. Operationalized growth, financial, and productivity data to achieve service line goals; maintained a monthly balanced scorecard to share with senior leadership. Managed project timelines for billing system upgrade roll-outs.

Mclean, Va, Us

See prior description.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Partnered with over 25 hospitals across the country to implement tactics to improve efficiency, increase access, and achieve growth objectives. Developed market profiles, conducted competitive analysis, and determined outpatient growth trends, then presented to senior administration areas of strategic opportunity resulting in projected $7.9M increase in contribution profit over five years. Assisted senior administrators and physician leadership of a 1,600-bed health system with prioritizing opportunities for cardiac service line growth based on detailed market and cost-benefit analysis, then facilitated meetings between administration and physician leadership to develop an action plan for implementing project recommendations around peripheral vascular screening in a competitive market. Performed detailed market and process analyses in over 30 inpatient and outpatient settings; benchmarked each facility’s performance to industry average and best practice. Developed models for managing inpatient and outpatient surgical volume in alignment with clients’ strategic objectives for service line growth; methods involved forecasting, case time and profitability analysis.

Nashville, Tn, Us

Conducted a comprehensive service line analysis for bariatric surgery and projected incremental EBITDA of over $400,000 per year (single location), leading to subsequent implementation across three hospitals. Assisted tactical implementation of strategic initiatives by creating market profiles. Supplied essential market intelligence to support several multi-million-dollar capital decisions. Worked with senior leadership team to redesign a comprehensive dashboard to track performance against strategic initiatives. Provided support to ensure seamless integration. Analyzed seasonal, weekly, and long-term trends using various statistical models to forecast emergency room visits, as well as admissions to various units from the emergency room. Conducted root cause analysis to determine ED process deficiencies, then presented potential solutions to improve patient flow. Conducted a cost-benefit analysis for improvements to the laboratory flow process; recommendations resulted in the implementation of key ancillary staff and improved morale.

Mba, Economics, Strategy, Healthcare (Robbins Institute For Health Policy And Leadership)

Lean Six Sigma Blackbelt

Bs, Information Systems, Internal Audit

Certification - Change Management Advanced Practitioner (Cmap), Change Management

Certificate - Master Performance Consultant, Human Performance Improvement

Kirkpatrick Four Levels Certification (Gold), Learning Evaluation

Pmp Certification, Project Management