Event Overview
Course Description:
Join us for a healthcare industry town hall discussion covering the COVID-19 Virus and its impact on healthcare organizations and providers from a financial, operations, reimbursement, coding, billing and compliance perspective. Our consultants have been and will continue monitoring the various government and payer communications as they are issued, with a dedicated resource team meeting regularly to provide appropriate, accurate, and timely guidance to you our clients.
We encourage you to connect with your Eide Bailly advisor with your questions, but hope this town hall discussion can be a place where you can have your most pressing questions addressed.
To better prepare for the discussion, please submit questions on the registration page ahead of the event.
Presenters:
Geoff Knobloch, CPA | Partner-in-Charge of Healthcare
Geoff is an experienced professional when it comes to serving accounting, compliance, and operational needs of clients in the healthcare industry. He joined the firm in 1999 and works with clients across the country on audit and accounting engagements, debt financing projects, third-party reimbursement, tax matters, business combinations and Medicare and Medicaid cost reporting. He works with health systems, both Prospective Payment and Critical Access.
Kim Hunwardsen | Partner
Kim has more than 25 years of experience serving health care and tax-exempt clients. She provides tax consulting, planning and compliance services to a variety of health care and nonprofit organizations. Kim has experience consulting on mergers and acquisitions, formation of tax-exempt entities, unrelated business income studies, compensation and benefits issues, IRS examinations, charitable giving and restructuring. She also assists hospitals with community health needs assessments and ensuring they are in compliance with the exemption requirements under 501(r). Kim speaks on topics relevant to nonprofit and healthcare organizations throughout the country.
Mel Schwarz, CPA | Director of Legislative Affairs
Mel has over 37 years of experience specializing in legislative affairs, including development and implementation of tax legislation at the national level. He spends his time at the capitol meeting with legislators, listening in on updates impacting tax processes and procedures and providing timely updates and education on issues and opportunities impacting clients. He is a sought-after speaker for many AICPA, TEI and FEI conferences.
Joy Krush, RHIT, CCS, CCS-P, CDIP | Senior Manager, Healthcare Consultant
Joy has over 30 years of experience in healthcare revenue cycle. She worked at a healthcare facility in Health Information with emphasis on coding, denial management, compliance, documentation improvement, and chargemaster. For the past four years with Eide Bailly she has worked with clients on coding and clinical documentation reviews, revenue cycle assessments, and chargemaster reviews. Joy is involved in AHIMA and NDHIMA currently holding the office of state advocacy coordinator.
Deyon Suchla| Senior Manager
Deyon is a Health Care Consulting Manager with more than 30 years of experience in the health care industry. She also has more than 15 years of business office management experience in hospital, clinic and long-term care operations. Deyon’s consulting and training is consistent with compliance guidelines established by Medicare and other third-party payers for both UB-04 and HCFA-1500 billing.
Brian Bertsch | Principal
Brian has 23 years of experience helping health systems, critical access hospitals, nursing homes and other health care entities improve their financial stability. He specializes in assisting health care entities on compliance with Medicare, Medicaid and other third-party reimbursement rules and regulations to achieve proper reimbursement for services performed. Brian also provides chargemaster/cost report reviews, market pricing analysis, and other financial analysis to health care entities.
Jackie Coult, CHBC | Certified Healthcare Consultant-Sr. Manager
As a Certified Healthcare Business Consultant, valuation analyst, experienced administrator, senior consultant, and national speaker. Jackie's strategy has been to focus on the individual needs of each practice or facility to create business solutions that improve profitability, efficiency, and quality of care. In more than 29 years of consulting, she has worked closely with many physician practices and hospitals over a broad spectrum of specialties. Areas of expertise include; Practice Formations, Mergers/Acquisitions, Revenue Cycle Management, Practice/Operational Assessments, Billing/Coding, Compliance, Healthcare Delivery Systems, Contract Negotiation, Budgeting/Accounting, and Operations.
These are web-group seminars. No prerequisites or advanced preparation required. For information regarding refund, complaint and program cancellation policies, please contact Jason McKeever at 701.476.8773.