Lucy Weiger Email & Phone Number

San Francisco Bay Area

Consults on aspects of the organization and financing of healthcare: including payment reform, ACO's, HMO's, managed care, bundled payments, physician/hospital relations, quality improvement approaches, and utilization management. Other areas of expertise include physician contracting and recruiting. Served as CEO of a pediatric palliative care facility.

San Leandeo, CA

Responsible for the management of a pediatric palliative care medical center with nine beds

San Francisco Bay Area

A consulting firm designed to provide operational services to assist Hospitals, Physicians, Health Centers and Health Insurance Executives in their quest to provide quality healthcare with cost efficiencies as part of the process. Additional key expertise is physician recruitment and practice management.

Provided executive management in the development and operations of the Santa Rosa division of St. Joseph Heritage Healthcare, a medical foundation for the 10th largest not-for-profit health system in the country. Served as a collaborative resource, and worked effectively with internal peers as a leader of the management team. Actively recruited additional.

Consulting to Senior Living and Community Health Center. Managed Physician recruitment process for client. Collaborated with community members in developing a hospital based Women's Health Center.

Provided executive leadership and management services for the majority of inpatient and outpatient hospital departments, managing a budget in excess of $45 million annually and a staff of over 150. Provided strategic leadership to the resident physician community regarding recruitment and retention; resolved matters regarding on-call policies, payment.

Functioned as the COO of an entrepreneurial organization developing an Insurance Plan for ERISA employers based on tiering large medical organizations on cost and quality.

Consultant with majority of clients being large medical groups where I functioned as the Executive Director. My expertise also included working with a large health plan on improving call center operations, as well as a large medical center in a contract with the Federal government.

Responsible for major risk based contracts for all Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Mass. Products including, HMO, PPO, Medicare Advantage, delgated risk, global payments, capitation. Contracted with large medical organizations, cush as Partners and CareGroup, as well as individual hospitals, physician groups, and ancillary contracts.

COO of large staff model HMO with main health center and satellite center. Hired and managed physicians and staff while contracting with specialists on a capitated basis and hospitals on a per diem and DRG basis. Had Medicare risk memebers.

Administrator of Operations at Kaiser Permanente Vallejo Hospital with 100 physician office clinic and 271 bed hospital. Additional responsibilities included a 48 bed rehab. hospital.

Masters Of Public Health, Public Health

Ba, Environmental Science

High School Diploma, Liberal Arts