Lead Contracting officer for Northern California; Management and development of Northern California provider network for HMO and PPO networks for all lines of business. Statewide leader of PPO and ancillary Contracting. Leader of Provider Partnerships in Northern California responsible for management and growth of Blue Shield's ACO and strategic provider partner relationships.

Lead Contracting officer for Northern California; Management and development of Northern California provider network for HMO and PPO networks for all lines of business. Responsible for Provider Partnerships, (ACO) collaborations maintenance and expansion.Oversight of territory that includes Membership revenue totaling 4.5 billion dollars.

Management and development of Northern California provider network for HMO, PPO and ACO products. Oversight of territory that includes Membership revenue totaling 2 billion dollars.

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:HEALTHCARE over 25 years experience ** REAL ESTATE INVESTING 20 years experiencePossess over 25 years of Managed Care Contracting and Network Development Leadership experience including negotiation, implementation and administration of capitated/risk sharing and fee- for- service agreements. Comprehensive negotiation and analysis experience includes knowledge of contract modelling, valuation and profitability. Skillful at developing business partnerships with an emphasis on Managed Care strategies and Provider Relations. Comprehensive knowledge and experience acquired from employment in all sectors of the healthcare industry including national healthplan, medical group, ancillary provider and hospital systems. Experienced in Commercial, Medicare and Medi-Cal product lines. Proficient in the following business software programs: MS Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint. REAL ESTATE INVESTMENTPossess over 20 years of real estate investing including as licensed Real Estate Broker for 12 years. Now wholesaling properties Joe Homebuyer business owner.PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCEAvid and successful real estate investor for the past 20 years. Held Real Estate Broker license for 12 years. Experienced in negotiating purchase agreements, lease agreements, general contracting agreements and all realms of real estate leasing, purchasing and investing. Ascend Care Consulting CurrentAlhambra, CACEO• Comprehensive experience in Medical Group/IPA and Hospital contracting in California, Nevada and Hawaii for Medicare HMO and PPO products.• Comprehensive Real Estate transactions, leasing and investments.

Responsible for network development and management in California, Nevada and Hawaii including all IPA and hospital contracting. In this role, I've also been responsible for IPA/medical group, hospital, and ancillary contracting statewide for Medicare and Commercial PPO lines of business. Knowledge of bid planning and benefit plan development. Work closely with Marketpoint (Humana sales team) to meet sales targets. Highly skilled collaborative leader and negotiator with over 25 years experience in leadership, network management and managed care contracting.

California is a new market for Humana. Got on board to trail blaze their expansion into California. Responsible for statewide hospital contracting.

Chief Managed Care Officer for Prospect Medical Holdings hospital division consisting of 5 hospitals. Responsible for all negotiations and relations; including but not limited to monitoring of financial performance; liason with plans, IPA's and other hospital; represent hospitals in all joint operations meetings with plans and IPA's. Knowledgeable in all aspects of managed care contracting including Full risk, partial risk and fee-for-service contracting and Medicare, Commercial and Medi-Cal products.

Highly experienced Managed Care Contracts negotiator and administrator. Managed Care consulting for hospitals and IPA/Medical Groups.

Responsible for billing and collections of Managed Care contracted clients. Reviewed and re-negotiated managed care contract with healthplans, hospital and medical groups. Managed staff of 17 managed care billing and collections staff.

Recruited and contracted all physician and ancillary services providers for the IPA management company arm of Southern Calif Medical Management which was affiliated with Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena and Methodist Hospital in Arcadia, CA.

Supervised staff responsible for auditing employer eligibility records with payment received from employer for employee coverage. Responsible for multimillion dollar accounts including Rockwell, First Interstate Bank and Maxicare.