Gerilynn Sevenikar has 30 years experience in healthcare revenue cycle and financial management.
Ms Sevenikar is the Vice President of Patient Financial Services for Sharp HealthCare, a seven hospital system in San Diego with an average of 650,000 admissions per year. She provides executive oversight for admissions, billing, collections, chargemaster, master patient index, and customer service.
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Marina McDonough has nineteen years of revenue cycle management experience from both hospital provider and vendor perspectives. As a product manager for CareMedic Systems (now part of Ingenix), Ms. McDonough helps hospitals leverage CareMedics unique Medicare billing technology and denials management tools to increase overall performance. Ms. McDonough has a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and is a Fellow of HFMA (FHFMA).
Gerilynn Sevenikar has 30 years experience in healthcare revenue cycle and financial management.
Ms Sevenikar is the Vice President of Patient Financial Services for Sharp HealthCare, a seven hospital system in San Diego with an average of 650,000 admissions per year. She provides executive oversight for admissions, billing, collections, chargemaster, master patient index, and customer service.
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Marina McDonough has nineteen years of revenue cycle management experience from both hospital provider and vendor perspectives. As a product manager for CareMedic Systems (now part of Ingenix), Ms. McDonough helps hospitals leverage CareMedics unique Medicare billing technology and denials management tools to increase overall performance. Ms. McDonough has a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and is a Fellow of HFMA (FHFMA).
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Sharp HealthCare in San Diego, CA learned their RAC lessons, now you can too. With five acute care facilities participating in the RAC demonstration project, Sharp HealthCare knows what works and what doesnt when it comes to RAC audits. Where and how to apply the discipline, both internally to coordinate a multidisciplinary approach, and externally in dealing with the contractor and others.
Clarify the bottom-line financial impact and communicate improvement requirements back to facilities, departments, and physicians
Determine who needs to be on the RAC team and how to hold everyone accountable
Establish what technology components are needed to efficiently manage the RAC medical records and appeal processes