Michael Dougherty Email & Phone Number

Austin, Tx, Us

Austin, Texas Area

• Directed the strategic implementation of a budget of over $600M annually.• Regularly led strategic policy decision making groups and implemented the resulting policy, resulting in a 10% increase in provider engagement over 1 year. • Developed and implemented a recruitment program for the program.• Managed the operations of a cross functional team, specializing in healthcare analytics, information technology, healthcare finance, operationalizing program policy, agency rules, and legislative requirements, public health, and critical healthcare infrastructure.• Exercised independent discretion in the expenditure of $50M worth of state funds, resulting in every child or adult eligible for the program being able to receive vaccines. • Projected and fulfilled the vaccine need for over 4 million patients across the state of Texas.• Actively engaged with healthcare leaders throughout Texas to identify program needs. • Conceived of, developed, and led multiple program initiatives leading to specific program area savings of $1.2M.

Austin, Texas

• Product owner for full cycle continuous development of one of the largest information systems in the state.• Regularly used and taught others to use SQL to identify and solve difficult data quality issues.• Actively engaged key physician stakeholders to garner feedback and support for major new initiatives.

Austin, Texas Area

• Managed the operations of 4 Subspecialty Neuroscience clinics with 16 outpatient providers, 23 direct reports, and more than ten thousand unique patients served annually.• Engaged with and advised senior and executive management in the development of organizational policy.• Engaged and built relationships with external clients to improve access to specialty care for the Austin community. • Proactively identified and capitalized opportunities for growth leading to 100% growth in gross revenue in 12 months. • Managed the full revenue cycle for millions of dollars worth of claims. This includes responsibility for coding, billing, working, and contesting claims with all credentialed payers.• Performed and communicated feasibility and implementation studies to determine the business viability of proposed initiatives. • Analyzed clinical and operational data from several EHR’s using advanced excel functionality, VBA, and Microsoft Access.• Applied data-driven and outcome based solutions to all aspects of service within and outside of the organization. • Managed the implementation of a major state funded research initiative.• Led the design and implementation of several analytics tools using advanced Excel functionality, VBA, Access, and MySQL. • Designed, coded, and implemented an executive dashboard to provide senior leaders within the hospital with KPI information related to a multimillion-dollar project.• Managed continuous data analytics projects and functions that include building an analytics tool to capture and analyze data, and led the implementation of new workflows as a result that helped to improve the safety of care within the hospital.• Built cross-functional relationships to develop consensus and get feedback on the development of analytics products.

• Three deployments of combat duty in Iraq• Managed multiple full-cycle projects including the implementation of a new electronic health record. The medical records of thousands of patients were accurately and completely collected and maintained, with no downtime to providers, and with zero loss of data.• Developed, led, and implemented new workflows that decreased supply expense and improved patient outcomes. • Utilized Microsoft Excel and Access to analyze new data in support of operational decision-making. • Advised executive management with the development of policies, both administrative and clinical in nature.• Managed, trained, and led clinical teams in the treatment of primary, specialty, and emergency care patients.• Awards and distinctions include Sapper Leader Course Graduate, Airborne Badge, Combat Medic Badge, Inductee into the Order of the Golden Spur, top 20% graduate of multiple leadership programs, and multiple awards for service beyond my assigned duties.

Master'S Degree

Bachelor Of Science - Bs

Bachelor Of Science - Bs