Leadership
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 Seattle Sounders season ticket holder. He is also the owner of a tire & service store.
- 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.
Before joining VHA, Jeff held several senior executive-level positions at Northern Michigan Regional Health System in Petoskey, Michigan (now McLaren Northern Michigan) over a nearly 20-year period, including President and CEO from 1990-2001. He also served in a variety of administrative capacities at Mount Carmel Mercy Hospital in Detroit from 1978-1982.
Jeff received his Bachelor of Science degree from Hillsdale College and he holds a Master in Health Administration from Indiana University. He is a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives and has served on the boards of VHA Michigan, the Michigan Hospital Association and numerous other professional and civic organizations during his extensive career. He and his wife, Candice, have four adult children and live in Harbor Springs, Michigan.
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.
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.
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.
Most recently, he served as VP RCM Operations for Atos, an IT and digital transformation company. He has also worked as VP of Operations and business development for Financial Corporation of America, VP of Operations for TRIAD a revenue cycle services company and as an Associate VP for Perot Systems revenue cycle group.
He has served in leadership positions with M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, HCA, and Texas Children’s Hospital. Mike is a graduate of Providence College (BS) in Health Services Administration and also holds a Master of Health Administration degree from Saint Louis University. He is an active member of the HFMA and speaks periodically at local and regional HFMA and AAHAM meetings.
Prior to joining Ni2, Nancy was most recently CFO at Mayo Hospital in Dover-Foxcroft Maine. In addition to traditional CFO accountabilities, including oversight of accounting, budgeting, reimbursement & business analytics functions, Nancy’s wide-ranging role also included managing EMR & business system conversions, merger planning, HIPAA compliance, APCs, Critical Access Hospital conversion, ICD-10 & charge master maintenance, service line analysis, revenue cycle process improvement and financial planning & implementation. Overall, Nancy has a 39 year financial leadership track record of guiding small hospitals, with the last 22 years in the CFO role leading several small hospitals. Nancy’s undergraduate training was in information systems, and she maintains a special interest in hospital IT services delivery. Throughout her career, Nancy has enjoyed mentoring her teams and helping others understand complex information and analytical challenges.
Nancy is a lifetime native of Maine, and is actively involved in community events, Rotary clubs and serves on several boards. Nancy’s favorite activities are to spend time with her grandchildren and travel for good music and theatre.