A healthcare management and hospital operations consultant with approximately 35 years of experience provides expertise in healthcare administration, hospital operations, managed care systems, physician organizations, and healthcare-related litigation support. His work has involved hospitals, nursing homes, ambulatory care facilities, managed care entities, physician groups, and multi-hospital systems, with consulting and expert analysis related to hospital standards of care, physician credentialing, negligent hiring, medical staff bylaws, billing and administrative compliance, managed care contracting, and healthcare financial disputes. He has more than 10 years of expert witness experience involving consultations, depositions, and courtroom testimony.

His consulting background includes strategic planning, healthcare operations improvement, business valuation analysis, physician-hospital joint ventures, payor contract review and negotiation, medical staff development, and healthcare system restructuring. He has conducted operational and financial assessments involving emergency departments, clinical laboratories, ambulatory surgery centers, diagnostic imaging services, and physician practice operations, including coding, billing, collections, utilization management, and revenue cycle performance. Additional experience includes planning and feasibility analyses for HMOs, hospital acquisitions, long-term care expansion, ambulatory surgery programs, hospice services, behavioral health initiatives, and integrated healthcare delivery systems.

His professional background includes senior leadership responsibilities within healthcare consulting, accounting, and hospital administration environments. His experience includes organizational redesign, compensation planning, contract negotiations, operational turnarounds, and implementation of large-scale healthcare management initiatives for regional and national healthcare organizations. Professional credentials include both an MBA and MHA, and he maintains affiliations with the Healthcare Financial Management Association and the American College of Healthcare Executives.