Panacea’s consulting professionals possess extensive hands-on clinical, financial, administrative, and executive experience, so they understand how their recommendations will impact your organization’s revenues and regulatory compliance. Our consultants have developed and constructed reimbursement programs for physician groups, ambulatory centers, and hospitals throughout the United States.
Our staff is expert at providing on-site analyses and in-house education for specific reimbursement needs. We take a pragmatic approach to our work that leads to real success for our clients. We strive to work with each facility to develop programs that institute realistic goals and yield positive results in a reasonable amount of time.
Revenue Integrity Services
BreAnn Meadows, FHFMA
President, Revenue Integrity Services
BreAnn Meadows is the President of Panacea’s Revenue Integrity Services Division. With over 20 years of experience in healthcare finance and revenue cycle, Bre has held executive-level positions in various organizations. She has extensive knowledge in Chargemaster Optimization software and service, Coding Audits and Education, and Comprehensive Compliance Software. Bre has also served as a speaker for various healthcare organizations and is a current board member and Fellow of the Philadelphia HFMA chapter.
Clinical Revenue Integrity
Stephanie Volante, MPH
Director, Revenue Integrity
Stephanie has over 20+ years of healthcare professional experience in chargemaster and revenue cycle management. She got her start with KPMG as a healthcare risk advisor to hospitals and health systems providing professional services such as chargemaster analysis, charge capture analysis and facilitated national education and training sessions to large academic medical centers. Her professional growth includes revenue integrity management, revenue cycle management and coding management with large hospital health systems in the state of Illinois. Most recently she was a Director for the Illinois Health and Hospital Association in the Division of Health Policy and Finance. Stephanie has a Bachelor’s degree in Health Information Management, a Master’s degree in Public Health, Health Policy and Administration and has been a Registered Health Information Administrator (RHIA) since 1999. She is Epic Certified in Charge Capture and Charge Master Resolute Hospital Billing and has assisted in Epic implementations building and testing charge capture services. As Revenue Integrity Director she will share the responsibility of managing our chargemaster, charge capture, CDMsync, Price Transparency and NSA GFE clients.
Scott Andersen, COC, CRCR
Manager, Revenue Integrity
Scott Andersen is a CDM and Charge Capture expert who has spent the last 22 years helping healthcare facilities manage their revenue cycle operations. Scott’s experience includes system transformation, clinical documentation training, regulatory research and change implementation, denials management, and revenue optimization. He has worked with hospitals of all shapes and sizes and has experience navigating all major billing and EHR systems currently in use around the country, as well as multiple third-party interfaced clinical charging systems. His passion is working hand-in-hand with clinical and operational leadership to ensure optimal charge management and revenue capture. Scott has a B.S. in Finance from the University of Idaho and is a Certified Outpatient Coder (COC-A) through AAPC.
Richard C. Parker
Executive Director
Mr. Parker, an executive director with KA Consulting, LLC, has more than 20 years of experience in the industry. He has diverse expertise in healthcare financial management and formerly served as the vice president of finance at a 300-bed facility, Mr. Parker has extensive experience with public and private reimbursement both as a consultant and as a provider. Working closely with KA Consulting’s financial reimbursement services, he provides vision and direction for KA’s profitability assessments, managed care financial analyses, charge setting, budget and reimbursement services, revenue cycle operational reviews, revenue and expense benchmarking, RAC data mining and corporate compliance services.
In addition to his responsibilities of client management, Mr. Parker has developed a benchmarking product (PLANR) that facilitates communication between financial and clinical experts. He is also very involved in the development of product line, payer specific and physician profitability studies and utilizes his experience to assist hospitals in bringing the necessary constituents together to manage products and services. As VP of Finance for Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Rahway, he led managed care negotiations and financial performance objectives.
Education
M.B.A. Finance, Fairleigh Dickinson University
B.S. Accounting, Fairleigh Dickinson University
Professional Memberships
Past President of the New Jersey Healthcare Financial Association
Auditing and Compliance Services
Stacy Pereira
Executive Director
Ms. Pereira, an executive director has more than 17 years of experience in the healthcare financial industry. She has a successful record of increasing reimbursements for major healthcare systems and medical centers through process improvement, account analysis, and staff development. Her expertise includes increasing timeliness of reimbursements, maximizing cash flow and minimizing accounts receivables. She works with clients to limit their risks and liabilities by maintaining strict compliance with state and federal regulations. Ms. Pereira has extensive experience in various hospital systems including Eagle, SMS, McKesson, IDX, Meditech, HBOC, and AS400. Her other core competencies include operations management, cost containment, medical billing and coding management.
Education
B.S., Accounting, Villanova University
Becky Jacobsen, CCS-P, CPC, CPEDC,CBCS, MBS, CEMC, BSN
Vice President, CDM, Coding & Audit Services
Becky Jacobsen has over 20 years of experience in coding, billing, auditing, reimbursement and collections. She has a diverse background, having performed duties in medical offices from patient care to collections. She has audited and educated physicians, physician extenders, and mid-level providers nationally, focusing on multi-specialty clinics, with an emphasis on surgical coding. Becky is a nationally recognized speaker who strives to educate all healthcare personnel with proper interpretation of guidelines and regulations set forth by the government.
Chelisa Clark, CPC, COC, CIRCC, CPC-P, CPC-I
Healthcare Consultant
Chelisa Clark has over 20 years’ experience in coding professional and outpatient facility services for evaluation and management (E&M), interventional radiology, diagnostic radiology, emergency room, ambulatory surgery center, outpatient treatment, and ancillary services including E&M and ICD-10-CM coding. She has taught AAPC education workshops and other educational presentations on various coding and compliance topics at the local, regional, and national level to audiences of coding professionals, medical billers, health care managers and providers.
Financial Services
Govind Goyal
President, Financial Services
Govi serves as Panacea’s EVP where he leads a team of financial and revenue integrity consultants to strategically partner with hospitals, health systems and other providers to grow their revenue cycle performance through the use of technology and deep industry expertise. He has held several leadership roles within the high-tech and big 4 consulting space as well as serving on the provider side working for large academic and not-for-profit community-based health care systems.
Govi’s technical area of expertise lies in building revenue integrity teams, developing strategic pricing models and performing CDM reviews. He received his Bachelor of Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Master of Science in Health Systems Management from Rush University Medical Center. Govi is an active board member of the Florida HFMA chapter serving as the incoming President for the 2021 – 2022 membership year and is passionate about volunteering throughout the sunshine state.
Henry Gutierrez
Senior Vice President, Financial Consulting Services
Henry has over 20 years’ experience in Healthcare Financial Management both in the large Acute Care teaching and non-teaching hospitals, health systems and as well as critical access and small hospitals. He is experienced in Budgeting and Financial Planning, 3rd Party Regulatory Cost Reporting, Service Line Profitability, Managed Care Contracting, Net Revenue Modeling and Claims Auditing, Chargemaster Compliance / Pricing and Revenue Cycle Management. Henry has fully implemented, designed and managed Decision Support & Cost Accounting, Service Line Profitability, Contract Management and Budgeting Systems and has been Panacea’s lead on health system CDM synchronization and Hospital Zero-Base Pricing® projects.
Brian Prokop
Senior Vice President, Financial Consulting Services
Brian Prokop is a healthcare financial advisor with more than 13 years of experience serving in a variety of healthcare organizations including Academic Medical Centers, Critical Access Hospitals and Integrated Health Systems. Throughout his career, Brian has worked with dozens of healthcare organization, providing leadership and support across a continuum of revenue performance improvement initiatives including pricing strategies, financial modeling, market assessments and payer contract modeling.
Kevin Bode
Vice President, Financial Consulting Services
Kevin Bode is a healthcare financial advisor with more than 15 years of specific experience in the health care industry working with hospital systems, Third Party Administrators (TPA) and Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBM). His services included third-party reimbursement, internal control reviews, hospital strategic pricing and comparative pricing projects. Furthermore, he has extensive expertise in claims administration services for both the insurer and employer groups, where he performed and lead a team to conduct detailed health claim file analyses, specifically focusing on the appropriate application of member benefits per the summary plan descriptions and service level agreements.
Jason Kloszewski, RHIA, CRCR
Vice President, Financial Consulting Services
Jason is a healthcare financial advisor with over 13 years of experience partnering with hospitals and physician groups to optimize revenue cycle and financial operations by conveying key research insights, installing industry best-practices, and managing process and cultural change. Jason leverages his Revenue Integrity skills to provide services such as strategic pricing, price transparency, CDM reviews, chart to bill auditing, and to identify revenue capture opportunities.
Carlous Ivey, MBA, MHA, CHFP, CSAF
Manager, Financial Consulting Services
Carlous Ivey is a healthcare financial professional with over 7 years of experience in the healthcare field. He has held several roles within the healthcare payer and provider space, working for a large academic and nonprofit healthcare system. His roles throughout his career primarily focused on contract management, payer analytics, and strategic pricing. His technical expertise lies in contract modeling, financial analysis, and quantifying pricing-related improvements. Carlous is an active member of Healthcare Financial Management Association’s (HFMA) Lone Star Chapter and is credentialed as a Certified Healthcare Financial Professional (CHFP) and Certified Specialist in Accounting & Finance (CSAF).
Brian Rikkola
Financial Healthcare Consultant
Brian graduated with a Finance degree in 2019 and has over 4 years of healthcare experience. He has experience working for large health systems doing financial reporting, budget preparation and chargemaster analysis. Additionally, he has worked with medical groups focused on practice acquisition and physician compensation.
Medicaid Eligibility
Juan Chico
Executive Director
Mr. Juan Chico is an Executive Director. He oversees the eligibility services product line and oversees the budget, staffing and profitability for each eligibility client. In addition to the above mentioned responsibilities, Mr. Chico is intimately involved in the marketing of the product line, the contractual negotiations necessary prior to implementation, and all audits. Mr. Chico, who also speaks Spanish has spent more than 21 years in healthcare. Mr. Chico has considerable expertise in regulatory affairs for enrollment on both the local and national level. He produces and organizes educational materials and seminars to address the changes in Medicaid and local regulations.
In addition to his responsibilities, Mr. Chico developed a tracking software program to track aging of accounts, efficiency by staff and improve overall productivity in the eligibility product line.
Education
MBA Rider University
B.S. Rider University Accounting
Professional Memberships
Member of the Healthcare Financial Management Association
Member of the American Association of Healthcare Administrative Management
