Ms. Balish has 17 years experience in healthcare finance. She has 4 years of public accounting experience auditing healthcare facilities, as well as 10 years coordinating multiple implementations of patient finance and registration systems and directing patient finance activities for large and mid-sized teaching hospitals and urban hospitals. Ms. Balish’s consulting experience includes interim patient finance management services for a variety of facilities, has led consulting teams in the performance of hospital revenue cycle assessments and work plan development, and has coordinated, designed and implemented managed care contract performance reviews. Ms. Balish holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Information Systems and Accounting from LaRoche College.

Mrs. Tremé has extensive experience in Patient Access, as she successfully managed a centralized patient access service center for various hospitals and health systems. Her expertise extends well beyond the primary patient access functions, into supporting technologies and process improvement management. She has developed and implemented guides for various medical practice management systems, provided oversight for the design and build of proprietary patient access software, and worked with various bolt-on systems. She also effectively redesigned patient access processes for several hospitals, in areas such as quality assurance, centralized scheduling, authorization management, pre-registration, point of service collections, and patient access performance metrics. Mrs. Tremé holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management from Robert Morris University and is a Certified Healthcare Access Manager (NAHAM.)

Affiliations: Member, National Association of Healthcare Access Management
 Member, Healthcare Financial Management Association

Mr. Trott has over 30 years of healthcare experience working in fiscal management and executive leadership positions with premier world-class healthcare providers and most recently with one of the nation’s largest health insurers and fourth largest Blue Cross Blue Shield Company, Highmark, managing their Fraud Division with concentration on claim audits and payment compliance of Facility Providers. Mr. Trott currently provides healthcare consulting services to hospitals and health systems in areas of specialization that includes:

• Hospital managed care contract negotiations, payer performance assessments, and KPI modeling
• Revenue Integrity reviews on billed claims and claim audit appeals and defense strategies
• Medicare Cost Report assessments, regulatory compliance reviews, and optimization of cost-based reimbursement providers
• Strategic planning of hospital service lines and key service areas addressing ROI improvement initiatives
• Manage and provide subject matter expertise on transformation and operational projects

Mr. Glinka has over 30 years of healthcare experience including clinical practice and revenue cycle consulting. He has worked with a Pittsburgh based consulting firm for over 25 years holding various positions including Regional Director of Charge Recovery services, Senior Project Manager, Director of Coding/Specialty Services and Vice-President of Research and Development. Areas of expertise include Managed Care Contract Compliance Review, Transfer DRG Analysis, Hospital Charge Process Improvement and Provider Education and Auditing. Mr. Glinka is a graduate of the St. John’s School of Nursing.

Affiliations: Member of the American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC)

Ms. Johnson has over 35 years of health information management (HIM) experience. She has experience managing HIM departments as well as performing inpatient and outpatient coding audits, transitioning to ICD-10-CM/PCS, Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) services, revenue cycle turnaround services, software development, and providing coding and reimbursement educational services to clients. Ms. Johnson has also been a featured speaker at over forty conferences and seminars including National RAC Conference, Hospital Council of Western Pennsylvania, American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) audio-conferences, and Pennsylvania Health Information Management Association. She is currently serving on the 2017 AHIMA Clinical Terminology and Classification Practice Council. Laurie previously led the award winning PHIMA ICD-10 education initiative. She was a regular guest on Talk Ten Tuesday as the News Desk correspondent. She has a B.S. in Health Records Administration from University of Pittsburgh, and an M.S. in Healthcare Information Systems, also from University of Pittsburgh.

Affiliations: Fellow (FAHIMA), American Health Information Management Association; Past President, Former Director, Pennsylvania Health Information Management Association (PHIMA); Member, Western Pennsylvania Health Information Management Association (WPHIMA)

Frank’s expertise has been acquired from being a leader in the Executive Search industry for over 30 years. He has successfully led national searches for top level talent for some of the nation’s finest companies and organizations. Prior to Revenue Cycle Solutions, Frank was a Shareholder and Manager for a leading Executive Search firm. During his tenure, he assisted in the growth of the firm by being a key member in the startup of offices in geographic markets along the East Coast. In addition to his expansive experience in talent acquisition, Frank has developed curriculum and conducted training seminars on job search techniques. Frank also served as a speaker to various trade groups and associations regarding employment topics. This culmination of experience and commitment to service has resulted in lasting partnerships with clients and candidates.

Mr. McCaul has over 30 years experience in the healthcare industry with the primary areas of responsibility in the Patient Finance and Patient Access functions. He has directed these functions at large health systems as well as smaller community hospitals. Additionally, Mr. McCaul has worked for both regional and national health insurers including experience with claims adjudication and the enrollment process. Prior to joining Revenue Cycle Solutions he was a Senior Director for a national revenue recovery company responsible for the Managed Care and Transfer DRG service lines. Mr. McCaul is certified as a patient account manager (CPAM) by the American Association of Healthcare Administrative Management and has served as Vice-President and President of his local chapter.

Affiliations: Member, American Association of Healthcare Administrative Management, Three Rivers Chapter

Ms. Colaberardino has over 20 years of diverse experience in the healthcare industry primarily specializing in physician practice management. Her expertise includes Organizational Consulting, EMR Implementation, Credentialing, Budgeting and Medical Billing/Collections. During the course of her career, Ms. Colaberardino spent 5 years traveling throughout the United States implementing Electronic Medical Record (EMR) software. She has also served in a managerial role for physician group practices of various disciplines, a large Durable Medical Equipment (DME) organization, as well as 3 years supervising a hospital business office. Her knowledge of current technology and broad range of experience in different areas has allowed her to be very successful in helping physician groups fully automate their practice and become much more productive and efficient. Ms. Colaberardino attended Youngstown State University in Youngstown, Ohio.

Affiliations: Member, American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC); Member, Professional Association of Health Care Office Managers (PAHCOM)

Mrs. Seelye has 18 years of Office Management experiences and is currently performing comprehensive functions involving Human Resources, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Billing, Payroll, and Tax Filing, plus managing of Business Bank Accounts Reconciliation and Reporting. Daily duties include providing administrative support to managing principals and consultants including travel arrangements, client proposals and reports, maintaining client personnel and subcontractor files, including contracts and agreements, and assisting in the resolution of IT issues. She also is actively involved in maintaining a positive and compliant work environment. Prior to joining the Revenue Recycle Solutions team, Mrs. Seelye spent 14 years as an Office Manager for Advanced Transfer, Inc., 8 years at The Art Institute of Pittsburgh in the Student Accounting Department and 6 years in the banking industry, holding positions ranging from Bank Teller to Loan Processor and advancing to Senior Clerk in the Loan Servicing Department.