Announcements

We are pleased to welcome Yuri Karev to the Pinnacle Healthcare Advisors team. Yuri helps hospitals and health systems improve their approach to revenue cycle, both through technological optimizations and targeted coaching. Yuri has worked across all areas of the revenue cycle, from ensuring a patient is appropriately pre-registered to actively appealing a denial. For more information about how Pinnacle Healthcare Advisors can help enhance your revenue cycle performance, please contact us. [...]

We are excited to welcome Veronica Molares to the growing Pinnacle Healthcare Advisors consulting team. Veronica has over 15 years of experience working with healthcare organizations to develop strategic solutions to improve overall revenue cycle performance.  She has managed multiple Epic revenue cycle installations from a build perspective to produce efficient and enhanced workflows.  Veronica bridges the gap between operations and IT by working on both teams to ensure quality outcomes. For [...]

It is with great pleasure that we share Leon Chang has joined the Pinnacle Healthcare Advisors team. Leon has approximately 16 years of experience in healthcare consulting and management with an emphasis on margin improvement. Leon is an expert in all revenue cycle areas and has led initiatives ranging from uncompensated care and avoidable losses to charge integrity and reimbursement optimization. For clients undergoing system implementations, Leon has advised on outsourcing and [...]

We are happy to announce Vickie Bridge, MBA, RHIA, CPHQ, has joined the Pinnacle Healthcare Advisors consulting team.  Vickie comes to us with over 20 years of experience working for and consulting with hospitals and physician practices to drive sustained improvements in net revenue and quality. She is skilled in overall revenue cycle management with particular expertise in clinical documentation and revenue integrity. Vickie will be responsible for collaborating with our clients to develop revenue integrity [...]

We are pleased to announce Kevin Blanchard has joined the Pinnacle Healthcare Advisors team.  Kevin has extensive experience leading revenue cycle transformation engagements with large multi-system hospitals, pediatric hospitals and single-facility hospitals.  Kevin’s areas of expertise include Epic Resolute Hospital Billing optimization, workflow and work driver management, DNFB/CFB management, denials management, system automation, customer service/scripting and pre/point of service cash collections. Kevin is actively involved in the ongoing development of our Epic [...]