Sam Kossoff Email & Phone Number

Schaumburg, Il, Us

• Directly manages all general operations of a ten-physician practice with two main locations and additional facilities, including finance, HR, legal, marketing and clinic management• Effectively provides comprehensive executive leadership over all clinical and operational functions of every department, including clinics, nurses, front and back office operations, billing and insurance, credentialing and insurance verification• Grew organization from six physicians and forty-eight staff to ten physicians and over eighty staff with ~$39MM in annual charges• Reviewed, selected and oversaw adaptation of new ADP HR, payroll, performance management, applicant tracking and time and attendance system• Developed internal control processes for several departments, functional roles and managerial positions• Efficiently led the planning, design and construction of two new office facilities that doubled the clinic space• Developed and implemented new physician compensation methodologies more accurate correlation between collections and physician bonuses and ongoing base salaries• Proactively recruited new employees to the practice, including negotiating and writing employment contracts• Negotiated vendor/supplier, third party insurance and operational contracts, as well as developing new financial controls and processes for billing and insurance operations resulting in improved productivity

• Managed all daily operations of a nine physician practice with three locations including all tactical and strategic financial, human resources, legal, marketing, management and technical issues• Led staff of over 25 personnel• Successfully reviewed, selected and implemented new IT structure and practice management software Datamedic to Medevolve and eventually the addition of the EyeMD EHR system as well• Served as Chief Financial Officer and Marketing Director after reengineering the management structure• Created internal controls in all departments to improve communication, trust, commitment and productivity, resulting in revenue growth of over 7%• Coordinated the selection and implementation of a new EMR system, including hardware installation and meaningful use reimbursement• Decreased expenses and improved shareholder return on investment by 16% • Supervised the planning, design, financing and construction of two new office facilities

• Responsible for all legal, financial, operational and administrative affairs of $3.7MM three-physician practice• Maintained average grown in collection of outstanding receivables of 8%• Proactively developed inventory control software for the in-house optical shop• Formulated budgets, profit and loss and ratio analysis used to provide monthly detailed analysis of practice performance• Revised policy and procedures manual

• Provided comprehensive strategic and operational consulting services to physician in Fort Myers, FL• Provided computer hardware and software consultative services to physician in Sarasota, FL

Sarasota, Fl, Us

• Oversaw all operations of ninety employee ophthalmic practice with four office locations and an ambulatory surgery center• Managed insurance, billing and payment and appointment departments of a $20MM+ practice with a staff of twenty-five employees• Supervised transition of computer system Datamedic to Medic AIX platform• Successfully revised policy and procedures manual for several department• Reviewed all billing procedures for clinic and ambulatory surgery center and developed new controls for effective billing procedures and financial controls, resulting in reduction of accounts receivable from $1.3M to $775K and improved collections procedures by 60%

• Responsible for all administrative, legal and financial operations of a $10MM three- -physician practice over office offices and six hospital sites• Maintained practice overhead under 39%• Developed a comprehensive practice strategic environmental analysis• Write the employee, physician and operations policy handbooks• Redesigned the compensation, bonus and performance review systems• Managed all public relations, publicity and advertising programs for the practice, promoting it through community service programs and physician lectures

Mba

Bachelor Of Science, Personnel And Employee Relations And Organizational Behavior