Nikhil Bansal, Md Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Spearheaded a $1-million redesign of primary care, supporting over 70 primary care providers, that maintained a net positive ROI while empowering care teams to efficiently provide high-quality care to patients through a value-based care lens.• Tripled year-over-year performance in Medicare annual wellness visits for the medical group by utilizing a PDSA process improvement model.• Reduced provider EMR message burden by 20% by establishing and implementing a new standard of work for… Show more • Spearheaded a $1-million redesign of primary care, supporting over 70 primary care providers, that maintained a net positive ROI while empowering care teams to efficiently provide high-quality care to patients through a value-based care lens.• Tripled year-over-year performance in Medicare annual wellness visits for the medical group by utilizing a PDSA process improvement model.• Reduced provider EMR message burden by 20% by establishing and implementing a new standard of work for Epic pool and in-basket message management across multiple departments.• Amplified transitional care management CPT capture across 70+ providers by 40% by composing a new central ambulatory team, engineering new outreach and scheduling workflows, introducing freeze-thaw template blocks, and refining technological tools for the providers and staff. • Created a new patient attribution and risk stratification algorithm for the Rush Health network — including the MSSP ACO program — to accurately define provider panels.• Doubled nurse phone triage productivity by standardizing triage workflows to have nurses work at the top of their scope, follow best practice protocols, and reduce provider burden.• Decreased compliance gaps for virtual scribe use by more than 50% by designing an online training module for clinic staff, standardizing patient consent documents across multiple mediums, instituting Epic alerts for providers, and developing an audit dashboard.• Achieved top-decile performances nationwide in diabetes hemoglobin a1c management, breast cancer screening, clinical depression screening, influenza vaccination, and chronic condition follow-up by overseeing a team conducting targeted patient outreaches, refining clinic workflows, and providing monthly performance feedback to providers and operational directors.• Prepared proformas to add 28 incremental physician and APP positions to primary care to support the expansion of primary care. Show less

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Led an ambulatory outreach team of 9, boosting completed annual wellness visits by over 350%.• Achieved top tier goal for chronic condition follow-up (HCC) measure for the medical group through implementation of rapid improvement strategies and data reporting.• Launched Rush's post-COVID clinic focused on providing multispecialty ambulatory post-COVID-19 care.• Compiled and communicated wRVUs performance, patient panel data, clinical template utilization, CPT billing profiles, and… Show more • Led an ambulatory outreach team of 9, boosting completed annual wellness visits by over 350%.• Achieved top tier goal for chronic condition follow-up (HCC) measure for the medical group through implementation of rapid improvement strategies and data reporting.• Launched Rush's post-COVID clinic focused on providing multispecialty ambulatory post-COVID-19 care.• Compiled and communicated wRVUs performance, patient panel data, clinical template utilization, CPT billing profiles, and quality/value-based care measures to 60+ primary care providers.• Conducted cycle time analysis in the primary care clinics to highlight the need for increased staffing support.• Operated senior-level quality and population health management committees for the medical group.• Collaborated with IS team to develop workbench reports and build features within Epic to improve care management and scheduling support for primary care.• Created a comprehensive guide and trained all access center agents, clinic coordinators, medical assistants, and patient care navigators supporting primary care on patient outreaches and scheduling related to annual wellness visits. Show less

Greater Chicago Area

• Strategized a transition to patient empanelment across Rush primary care that incorporated a modified 4-cut method.• Designed financial reports for the general internal medicine division, spotlighting a misallocation of over $200,000 in expenses.• Developed new provider dashboards highlighting productivity and quality metrics.• Generated a business case for adopting a prescription refill service aimed at reducing redundancies and non-reimbursable tasks.• Devised new clinic… Show more • Strategized a transition to patient empanelment across Rush primary care that incorporated a modified 4-cut method.• Designed financial reports for the general internal medicine division, spotlighting a misallocation of over $200,000 in expenses.• Developed new provider dashboards highlighting productivity and quality metrics.• Generated a business case for adopting a prescription refill service aimed at reducing redundancies and non-reimbursable tasks.• Devised new clinic workflows for CMAs and clinic coordinators and mapped out visual flowcharts to establish role clarity and accountability. Show less

Burlingame, California

• Applied strategies to streamline patient care and reduce patient wait time by 10%.• Managed two medical assistants.• Conducted patient histories, physical examinations, and clinical care documentation.

Greater Chicago Area

• Designed a new protocol for measuring the level of NH3 methylation.• Investigated the molecular mechanisms for the epigenetic regulation of intestinal transporters — NH3 and DRA — during infectious and inflammatory diarrhea.• Produced and presented the results of extensive experiments including SDS-PAGE, Western Blotting, Immunofluorescence, Conventional PCR, Real-time PCR, and RNA Extraction.

Greater Chicago Area

Master Of Science - Ms, Health Systems Management

Doctor Of Medicine - Md, Medicine

• U.S. accredited medical school. • Two-year clinical rotations through Ascension Providence Hospital network in Southfield, Michigan.

Bioengineering