Michael Baum Email & Phone Number

Marietta, Georgia

• Provide financial and operational data analysis to generate insights that advance Departmental, Entity, and system initiatives and improve performance.
• Develop and maintain reports, dashboards, and balance scorecards using visual analytics that provide enhanced insight and improve organizational decision-making.
• Collaborate across revenue cycle operations to develop impactful analysis and messaging to assigned customers.
• Develop personal action plans from meetings and follow through on assigned tasks.
• Identify revenue cycle trends in the data that drive process improvements for revenue cycle, assigned departments, and the system.
• Develop and deliver impactful presentations for senior executives, departmental and/or hospital leaders, and/or at meetings with other key stakeholders.

Marietta, Georgia

• Audit financial losses (payor denials) for 5 individual hospitals within health system.
• Develop and generate complex financial reports and application programs to retrieve data as requested.
• Ensure accuracy and integrity of analytic reports so that they provide meaningful information for sound business decisions can be made.
• Provide monthly analysis with recommendations to hospital leadership.
• Lead projects within the organization.
• Responsible for training new hires on how to read/navigate analytic reports.

Marietta, Georgia

• Research, analyze and correct initial denial errors and final adjustments from the reporting generated and provided.
• Trend, track and analyze denial reporting patterns and assist in developing and implementing process improvements.
• Recognize information systems, organizational and operational roadblocks that need to be changed to improve the system wide denial experience.
• Create denial tracking mechanism (Excel spreadsheets) of denials and monitor both open and closed denials identified issues.
• Work with multiple departments to resolve initial and final denials on a timely basis
• Train staff to reduce initial and final denials.

Atlanta, Georgia

• Responsible for appealing technical denials to achieve optimal financial outcomes.
• Member of Denials Committee
• Report denial, underpayment and miscellaneous trends to Revenue Cycle VP.
• Prepare and provide updates and suggestions.
• Co-Chairperson of Managed Care Committee
• Discuss and report billing, coding, clinical, front end and care management issues.

Bachelor Of Business Administration - Bba, Business Administration And Management, General

Associate'S Degree In Applied Science, Business - Business Administration

Activities and Societies: Alpha Beta Gamma - National Business Honor Society

High School Diploma