Leadership
- Accelerated over $25 million in cash within a 7 month engagement during a full HIS conversion engagement.
- Facilitated a complete Revenue Cycle redesign for a $1.5 billion health system while increasing the organizations overall net to gross and decreasing the systems cost to collect from 1.8% to 1.6%.
- Lead and facilitated numerous HIS {EPIC} Revenue Cycle Risk Mitigation initiatives for pre and post-live conversions.
- Increased net yield for a critical access facility by greater than 3% in a 12 month period through process optimization while leveraging the clients current patient accounting platform.
Jason holds an MBA with a Healthcare Concentration from Rivier College Graduate School of Business. Jason is a Board Certified Healthcare Executive and a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives.
Ron has thirty years of wide ranging healthcare management, consulting, operational, and new venture startup experience. His experience includes executive positions in hospital systems, ASC & physician practice management, consulting, new ventures, and business development. Prior to Vizient & VHA, Ron had full management accountability for two multi-specialty surgical groups with ASC’s, and was the founder of a consulting services company focusing on driving strategic alignment between medical centers and their specialty physician groups. Previously, Ron was also a co-founder of MedCath, with accountability for sales, business development, and financing activities, and was VP Business Development for Carolinas Healthcare System.
Ron holds a bachelors degree in Economics from the University of Puget Sound, located in Tacoma, Washington. He also holds an MBA degree from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
For interests, Ron continues his longstanding passion for playing competitive soccer and is a Houston Dynamo season ticket holder. He is also the owner of a tire & service store.
Anthony has led many revenue cycle engagements for clients nationwide and is experienced with all segments of healthcare providers ranging from critical access hospitals to large IDNs and academic medical centers. Anthony holds an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management as well as a BBA from University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. Anthony is also a Certified Revenue Cycle Representative.
Kelly was previously a co-founder of Eris Medical Technologies in 2007, a specialized company helping hospitals & healthcare organizations optimize their charge capture activities. With Eris, her primary focus was to create new charge capture technologies which would increase client net revenues by 2% – 5% and improve the efficiencies of overall charge capture workflows by up to 50% within the client organization. For one large multi-state health system, Kelly standardized the charge capture processes across all departments & hospitals which significantly increased revenues & reduced late charges. Kelly supported many Eris clients with middle revenue cycle consulting services, including health systems, small community hospitals & specialty physician practices.
Prior to Eris, Kelly was an RCM consultant for Deloitte Consulting with a specialization in RCM operations & management, comprehensive provider charge & compliance, pricing and payer reimbursement. Kelly is also a credentialled RHIT.
Taylor has a broad healthcare background with deep experience spanning administration, sales, leadership, and marketing. His wide-ranging knowledge, especially in sales and management positions, has allowed him to become a key asset within growing organizations. Taylor began his healthcare career in revenue cycle services for mid-size hospitals, and subsequently leveraged his provider operations experience to move to the vendor side of revenue cycle with Zelis Payments.
Taylor holds his CHFP certification through the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) and has a Master of Science degree in Public Health Administration from Meharry Medical College, located in Nashville, Tennessee. He also holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Middle Tennessee State University. Taylor also continues to extend his industry contributions, holding leadership & board positions across multiple professional organizations and their state chapters.
In his spare time, Taylor holds a longtime passion for training Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. He is a die-hard Chicago Cubs fan and travels to multiple games every year with his family.
Jen previously was a co-founder of Eris Medical Technologies in 2007, a specialized company helping hospitals & healthcare organizations optimize their charge capture activities. With Eris, she led the design, development & maintenance of a market leading charge capture technology software platform which continues to benefit many hospitals nationally. As a charge capture expert, Jen authored several whitepapers, and has been a frequent conference speaker on charge capture related topics such as “common CDM pitfalls”, “industry-standard charge capture models” & other middle revenue cycle topics. She also served as an RCM consultant to Eris hospital charge capture software clients, increasing net revenues by 2% – 5%. Jen also managed middle revenue cycle engagements including CDM, charge capture, pricing reimbursement & clinical operational audit reviews.
Prior to Eris, Jen established Revenue Integrity departments for several hospitals and was a national consultant for Deloitte Consulting where she helped clients strategically improve revenue cycle operations & bottom line net revenue improvement.