For organizations interested in becoming a Healthcare Council business partner, contact Chad Hilliard at chad.hilliard@center4hcs.org or 878.217.1763
Contact: Ryan Werling
Title: SVP, Sales & Marketing
Phone: 703.622.1826
Email: Ryan.werling@ablepayhealth.com
Website: www.ablepayhealth.com
AblePay Health is the next generation of patient financial engagement programs. Using a proprietary mix of savings, flexibility, advocacy, and convenience, AblePay Health takes an innovative, highly effective, yet surprisingly simple approach to assisting with the patient’s responsibility after insurance.
AblePay’s easy-to-implement program removes medical providers from the patient collection process, lowering costs and increasing revenues. Simultaneously helping their patients diffuse their out-of-pocket expenses. As a result, they bridge the payment gap between medical providers and their patients, creating a better patient experience, and ultimately lowering the cost of healthcare.
Contact: Stephanie Dorwart
Phone: 412.298.2767
Email: sdorwart@altiushcg.com
Website: https://altiushcg.com
Altius Healthcare Consulting Group, formerly American Healthcare Solutions, is focused on providing high-quality performance management solutions, including operational assessments and labor management initiatives, but with a new edge that will more effectively meet the ever-changing needs of hospitals and healthcare systems. Altius’ array of services include productivity assessment/benchmarking/monitoring, operational appraisals, market analysis, strategic planning, physician practice review, turnaround support and interim management.
Contact: K. James Hunt
Title: Partner
Phone: 724.658.1565
Email: james.hunt@actcpas.com
Website: www.bakertilly.com
Baker Tilly US, LLP (Baker Tilly) is a leading advisory CPA firm, providing clients with a genuine coast-to-coast and global advantage in major regions of the U.S. and in many of the world’s leading financial centers – New York, London, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Chicago. Baker Tilly is an independent member of Baker Tilly International, a worldwide network of independent accounting and business advisory firms in 148 territories, with 36,000 professionals and a combined worldwide revenue of $4.0 billion.
Contact: Kevin Ferra
Title: Founding Partner
Phone: 412.378.3582
Email: kevin@ferrasearch.com
Website: www.ferrasearch.com
Ferra Executive Search is a boutique recruitment firm focused on identifying talent in the healthcare and higher education industries. Founder Kevin Ferra, a global talent acquisition leader, has more than 20 years of experience in health care and higher education. He is a graduate of the Entrepreneurial Development Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and holds degrees from Georgetown University and Duquesne University.
Contact: Jean Nyberg
Title: Partner
Phone: 417-865-8701
Email: Jean.Nyberg@forvis.com
Website: www.forvis.com
At FORVIS, our Healthcare Practice is one of the nation’s largest assurance, tax, and advisory firms comprised of more than 950 professionals dedicated to delivering Unmatched Client ExperiencesTM and value-added solutions. We are the professional services provider of choice to more than 6,100 healthcare organizations who rely on our depth of expertise, breadth of resources, technical specialization, and innovative insights.
Contact: Vicki L. White
Title: VP Business Operations
Phone: 412.889.2739
Email: vlw@ocreilly.com
Website: www.ocreilly.com
For more than a decade, the team of professionals in health care supply chain at OC Reilly, Inc. (OCR) has enabled their clients to discover sources of meaningful savings, enhanced cost-efficiency, and improved operations.
The OCR team of advisors in world-class supply chain solutions, biomedical / clinical engineering, perioperative logistics, sterile processing services, physician preference, purchased services, food service management and other primary areas of operations affecting the finances of industries across the board, brings its proven knowledge and applied first-hand experience to clients across the entire spectrum of health care providers and applications.
Former suppliers, vendors, and administrators themselves, the OCR team generates impressive returns on investment, and provides hands-on advice and assistance to clients in implementing game-changing plans with no conflicts of interest to improve bottom-line performance while maintaining exemplary patient care. OCR effectively understands, anticipates, and addresses trends and issues in health care supply chain because most every member of the team has been on the client’s side of the equation.
By anticipating and responding to the difficult challenges that affect today’s health care organizations and long-term care facilities, OCR develops customized solutions that increase profitability, generate revenue, and decrease total expenditures. All solutions can have a positive impact on the quality of patient care delivery. OCR believes that every client situation offers solutions that can be revealed and maximized with the advice of this team of accomplished health care supply chain professionals.
Contact: Evan Berkheiser
Title: Vice President – Client Engagement
Phone: 717-679-3463
Email: eberkheiser@revecore.com
Website: https://revecore.com
Revecore is a leading provider of revenue integrity solutions for underpayments, denial prevention, and complex claims reimbursement solutions for motor vehicle accident, workers’ compensation, and Veterans Affairs claims. With more than 700 employees, we serve nearly 600 hospitals across the country. Revecore offers hospitals and health systems over two decades of unrivaled technology and expert insight into the most challenging areas of revenue cycle to ensure they are appropriately reimbursed for the care they provide. In addition to being #1 Ranked in Complex Claims by KLAS, Revecore holds the distinguished HFMA Peer Review Status for underpayment recovery and complex claims solutions.
Contact: Debra A. Thompson
Title: President and Founder
Phone: 814.480.8000
Email: debbie@getstrategy.com
Website: www.getstrategy.com
Strategy Solutions, Inc. (SSI) is a planning and research firm with the mission “to create healthy communities.” We provide strategic planning, market research, community health needs assessment, board development and business growth services across the continuum of acute and post-acute health care.
What sets us apart? Strategy Solutions, Inc. has several distinguishing characteristics that separate us among other firms that provide similar services. Strategy Solutions, Inc. has extensive community health needs assessment, planning and program development/evaluation experience. We also have extensive product/market positioning experience that supports strategic business planning. While we provide research and planning consulting services, we will also teach organizations how to build their internal planning and research capabilities so that they do not have to rely on external consultants for ongoing support. We also help our clients fund projects and achieve outcomes by facilitating cross-sector collaboration in communities.
At Strategy Solution’s, Inc. we realize each organization is unique, and custom design each process to meet individual needs. Our projects and clients have been recognized as “best practices” by the International Economic Development Council, the International Association of Facilitators, The US Department of Health and Human Services, The Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare, The Pennsylvania and New York Departments of Public Health, The Pennsylvania Department of Education, Pennsylvania Partners (the state Workforce Association), the Maryland Workforce Association as well as US News and World Report.
We help Western Pennsylvania health care providers and organizations, realize their missions while maintaining their status as economically
viable entities.
We help Western Pennsylvania health care providers and organizations, realize their missions while maintaining their status as economically
viable entities.
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