Sheila Kirkegaard, Cpa, Mba, Facmpe Email & Phone Number

Portland, Oregon, Us

Cincinnati, Oh, Us

Lake Oswego, Or, Us

Currently, I counsel physician groups to impact on revenue growth, leadership development, and financial modeling. My focus is on filling c-suite interim positions for customers. My key highlights:- Facilitated large private equity transaction as acting CFO for customer to sell the practice. - Allowed customer businesses to generate incremental revenues through business-focused strategies. - Contributed to several strategic retreat decisions by offering consultancy to healthcare business. Stakeholders

Seattle, Wa, Us

I directed strategic vision and operational aspects of two practice groups (Proliance outpatient surgery centers and hospital I/P and O/P ORs), while developing company policies for surgical activities. I also functioned as service line leader for ENT practices.My key highlights: - Governed two services across four locations offering services such as ear, nose, throat, and ophthalmology. - Implemented commercial strategies, resulting in increasing market share. - Introduced and drove Lean continuous improvement culture, creating significant and lasting impacts. - Developed and delivered monthly financial reporting package for the Executive Committee.- Conducted successful negotiations of PSA with hospital, adding significant revenue stream. - Championed operational transformation and modernization of facility, equipment, and digital presence.

My administrative responsibilities included financial, compliance, contract, human resources, and operational governance and improvement. I had complete oversight for cross-functional teams of surgeons, mid-level providers, and other team members to govern two ASC surgery centers and three clinics across Seattle and Bellevue.I also managed contracts of payers, clinic / office space leases, and physician / mid-level provider contracts. My key highlights:- Boosted revenue, integrated MACRA, and secured maximum reimbursement through strategic business planning. - Prepared and presented full scope practice valuation for owners’ succession planning.- Enabled satisfactory survey completion for ASCs and AAAHC Accreditation through compliance management. - Led successful completion of Meaningful Use and PQRS reporting for all providers. - Maintained financial transparency by managing periodic financial reporting, tax returns, capital planning, and owner income distribution models, in compliance with Stark and Anti-kickback regulations.

Seattle, Wa, Us

I implemented care team model, provided dyadic leadership, and managed overall facets to run primary care clinic with nine providers and urgent care clinic with four providers. My key highlights:- Streamlined patient intake, patient touch points, check-in, authorizations, and check-out. - Led process improvement initiatives for Diabetes workflow. - Contributed to maintain regulatory compliance and achieve objectives through leadership of 19 staff members. - Co-developed metrics for benchmarking provider/service-line quality and volume results in partnership with Swedish Urgent Care leadership. - Optimized efficiency and assured quality for both Meaningful Use and ACO patient management.

Seattle, Wa, Us

While leading administration division, I deployed practice plans, regulated staffing of physicians and physician extenders, defined medical documentation guidelines and specialty-specific risk table, and streamlined credentialing process for FHCRC physicians and physician extenders.My key highlights: - Grew inpatient revenue by $350K each year by addressing medical documentation gaps. - Led 25% increase in reimbursement by negotiating memorandum of understanding with Seattle Children’s for reimbursement plan for physician extenders. Boosted reimbursement on UWMC agreement by $500k annually.- Added billing revenue of $200k by instigating policy change, allowing physician assistants to bill for bone marrow transplant service.- Implement natural language processing for medical coding as a pilot program for Cerner software company.- Slashed A/R balance by $500k and minimized A/R from 30% to 12% in 90 days as representative of physician services in multi-enterprise process improvement for case-rate contract billing. Additional experience Chief Executive Officer & Owner, HC RAD, Snoqualmie, WA- Founded enterprise version of physician directory based on Healthcare Provider Directory (HPD) National Standards and sold a SAS product to OneHealthPort. - Enabled functionality of data consolidation from many sources into uniform format and distribution of to original sources. - Implemented HC RAD physician directory as Enterprise version for a customer. Co-Administrator, Physicians Anesthesia Service, Seattle, WA- Governed internal billing service, system maintenance/upgrades, and conversion to electronic claims submission. - Pioneered integrated billing/financial performance reporting package for Executive Committee.- Co-developed HIPAA compliance and confidentiality plans.

Physician group of ~60 anesthesiologists providing anesthesia care at Swedish First Hill and Cherry Hill Hospitals as well as to area oral and plastic surgeons.

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Bachelor Of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Accounting And Finance