Speaker's Bureau

The MedeAnalytics team of professionals has extensive experience on the many issues which affect healthcare organizations today. Our speakers can address topics such as financial, operational and clinical performance, healthcare reform, clinical-financial risk, clinical quality indicators, audit and compliance, and revenue cycle best practices.
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Mike Gallagher

Michael E. Gallagher

Executive Chairman

Mike Gallagher has over 30 years experience in healthcare executive leadership, with demonstrated success in management, operations, strategic planning, financial controls, acquisitions and divestitures. Mike assumed the role as the company's executive chairman in May 2013 after serving as its chairman and chief executive officer since 2009. Mike started serving on the MedeAnalytics board of directors in 2004. He served as vice chairman from 2006-2009.

Prior to becoming MedeAnalytics' chief executive officer in 2007, Mike served as a partner in Shamrock Investments, LLC, a firm he co-founded in 1987. He has been an investor and advisor in numerous merger and acquisition and strategic planning engagements, and has served on the boards of several public and private providers and health plan organizations. Mike currently serves on the governing boards of USC University Hospital and USC Norris Cancer Hospital. He was formerly chairman, president and chief executive officer of Health Net of California, chief executive officer of Paragon Ambulatory Surgery and a group vice president with American Medical International. Mike's professional career also included positions with Coopers & Lybrand and service in the United States Marine Corps.

Mike holds a bachelor's degree in economics and a master of business administration from the University of Southern California.

Speaking Topics

  • Healthcare reform
  • Trends in healthcare

Terry Fouts, M.D.

Chief Medical Officer

Terry Fouts, M.D., joined MedeAnalytics in September 2008 as chief medical officer with a leadership role guiding the strategic development of MedeAnalytics' clinical products and services. Dr. Fouts served for 19 years as a medical executive for healthcare providers and major health plans, developing policy, wellness and disease management programs, quality initiatives, and product development. He has been responsible for managing national and international programs to reduce medical costs and strengthen health operations. Dr. Fouts' medical executive career follows a 19-year career as a practicing internist.

Most recently, he served as senior vice president and chief medical officer at Great-West Healthcare in Greenwood Village, Colo. Prior to that, Dr. Fouts was national medical director for patient management and clinical cost management, respectively, for Aetna. He also served as vice president of medical management for CIGNA International.

Speaking Topics

  • Healthcare reform
  • Physician engagement
  • Clinical resource utilization
  • Accountable care organizations

Steve Lerch

Senior Vice President and General Manager, Provider Business Unit

Steve Lerch joined MedeAnalytics in June 2009 and served as the company’s chief financial officer from 2009-2012 before his appointment to his current position. With over 30 years in business, management and public accounting, Steve brings a unique blend of broad industry skills, significant transaction experience and an extensive public company finance and operating background to the company.

Most recently, Steve served as the chief revenue officer for Kowabunga! Inc. (AMEX: KOW), a leader in performance marketing and technology solutions for the online advertising industry. Prior to that, Steve spent 11 years serving as the chief financial officer and chief operating officer for Workstream, Inc. (NASDAQ: WSTM), an on-demand software company in the talent management space, and Rewards Network, Inc. (NASDAQ: DINE), a credit card-based loyalty marketing and finance platform. Prior to his various executive suite roles, Steve was a business assurance partner for Coopers & Lybrand, where his client base included numerous healthcare institutions.

Speaking Topics

  • Clinical-financial risk
  • Revenue cycle challenges
  • Hospital revenue cycle

Ken Perez

Senior Vice President of Marketing and Director of Healthcare Policy

Ken strives to be a thought leader focused on the intersection of healthcare, policy, economics and technology. He is a subject-matter expert on healthcare policy issues, including health reform, accountable care organizations, value-based purchasing, Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, the Budget Control Act and sequestration, and the sustainable growth rate.

Ken leads the strategic direction and orchestration of MedeAnalytics' marketing functions and healthcare policy research and analysis. He is a frequent commentator on healthcare policy issues at industry events. On a bimonthly basis, Ken writes a column on health reform-related issues for hfm, and he contributes articles and commentary to numerous other publications, including Becker’s Hospital Review, Executive Insight, Healthcare Finance News, Modern Healthcare, and U.S. News & World Report. Ken has over 20 years of experience in business, serving in senior marketing, business development and finance roles for healthcare IT and technology companies.

Speaking Topics

  • Accountable care organizations
  • The Budget Control Act and sequestration
  • Comparing U.S. and U.K. health reform
  • Health reform
  • Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement
  • The sustainable growth rate
  • Value-based purchasing

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Emmet O'Gara

Associate Vice President of Payer Solutions

Emmet O'Gara, associate vice president of Payer Solutions, is responsible for addressing the challenges of healthcare payers by linking their business challenges with targeted analytic solutions to meet their needs. Additionally, Emmet provides thought leadership on medical management and employer reporting while leading the MedeAnalytics team of subject-matter experts sourced directly from major health plans across the country. Before joining MedeAnalytics in 2009, Emmet held leadership positions at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Cigna Healthcare, Accenture, and Cap Gemini Ernst & Young.

Speaking Topics

  • The importance of transparency
  • Impact on health reform on payers
  • Health reform's impact on re-insurance
  • The role of analytics in stop-loss The importance of performance management
  • The link between transparency and self-funded employer retention

John Hansel

Vice President, Provider Product Marketing

John Hansel is vice president of Provider Product Marketing for MedeAnalytics. John provides leadership for the company’s provider sales organization and has worked directly with countless leading healthcare organizations to create sustainable value and financial results through data transparency, focused analysis and intelligent workflow.

Speaking Topics

  • Revenue cycle best practices
  • Patient access best practices
  • Preparing for RAC, MIC and commercial payer audits

Cole Hooper

Associate Vice President, Provider Product Marketing

Cole Hooper is the associate vice president of Provider Product Marketing for MedeAnalytics. Cole has extensive experience working with hospitals to implement work flow technology and business intelligence applications to address the specific challenges of front-end cash collections. Cole has a strong understanding of all technology solutions available in the market today and how these tools can be integrated into the fragmented processes of patient access.

Speaking Topics

  • Patient access best practices
  • Revenue cycle best practices

Greg Krantz

Director, Provider Product Marketing

Greg Krantz is responsible for MedeAnalytics' Quality and Compliance solution. Greg has extensive experience working with hospitals to implement workflow technology and business intelligence applications to address the specific challenges presented by RAC, MIC and commercial payer audits.

Speaking Topics

  • Compliance
  • Audits
  • RAC and MIC audits
  • Commercial payer audits

Eric Svetcov

Associate Vice President, Information Security and CSO

Eric Svetcov joined MedeAnalytics in 2011. Previously held leadership positions in Information Security, IT or Consulting at KPMG, Salesforce.com, Grassroots Enterprise, and Intuitive Surgical. Eric is an Information Security and IT Leader with deep Cloud Computing Operational experience. Trainer and speaker at conferences in the United States, New Zealand, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, and Malaysia. Eric is a Board Member (and former Chair) - American Board of Information Security and Computer Forensics (ABISCF), Former Board Member - ISACA (Auckland Chapter).

Speaking Topics

  • Cloud Computing
  • Healthcare IT
  • Risk Management

Sherry Westlake

Manager, Provider Product Marketing

Sherry is a manager, Provider Product Marketing for MedeAnalytics’ Patient Access Intelligence solution. She has worked in the field of healthcare technology for the past 17 years and has extensive experience in product development as well as implementation of revenue cycle, financial and clinical analytics and patient access workflow technology. Through her hands-on experience with hospitals nationwide in assessing opportunities for revenue cycle improvement, she has a deep understanding of the wide range of technology solutions available in the market today and how they are used to address and improve the fragmented processes of patient access.

Speaking Topics

  • Patient access best practices
  • Revenue cycle best practices

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