Medicare reimbursement uncompensated care strategies

Author's Biography

Jay Sutton FACHE, CNRA, is a consulting principal at Crowe LLP, an accounting, consulting and technology firm with offices around the world. Working within the firm’s healthcare services group, Sutton has more than 25 years of experience in the healthcare industry. He leads healthcare finance and reimbursement consulting services at Crowe, serving a range of clients, including hospital and health systems, long-term care and physician practices. His experience includes financial analysis and projections, financial process improvements, decision support and analytics, net revenue budgeting and reporting and wage index and occupational mix calculations. Prior to joining Crowe, Sutton held roles at several large health systems in business development and data analysis and worked at a Big 4 firm.

Ron Wolf CHFP, is a Consulting Senior Manager at Crowe LLP, an accounting, consulting and technology firm with offices around the world, within the healthcare services group. With more than 20 years of healthcare industry experience, Wolf specialises in researching and reporting on complex regulatory reimbursement issues. He works with clients on uncompensated care reporting, disproportionate share hospital/supplemental security income issues and physician time reporting and contract compliance. Prior to joining Crowe, Wolf held roles at a Big 4 national healthcare advisory services practice and at two Medicare fiscal intermediaries in the areas of audit and reimbursement, cost report appeals and reopenings.