Agenda – Day 2

Day Egusquiza is President of AR Systems, Inc. and brings over 30 years experience in health care reimbursement, hospital business office operations, contracting and compliance implementation. During her 20 years as Director of Revenue and Reimbursement at a community hospital in Idaho, she also was Director of a Physician Medical Management billing service, where she completed an integrated business office between a hospital and a large physician clinic. Her work includes providing guidance as a compliance & APC educator while providing operational insight on the revenue cycle impacts of RAC/Medicare Recovery Audit Contractors. Ms Egusquiza is a nationally recognized speaker on continuous quality improvement (CQI), benchmarking, redesigning, reimbursement systems and implementing an operational focus of compliance – both in hospitals and practices. She has been on the AAHAM National Advisory Council, HFMA National Advisory Council, and is a past President of the Idaho HFMA Chapter & recently received the Lifetime Achievement Award. Attendees at HFMA’s ANI rated her in the top 25% for each year she has presented, earning her the ‘Distinguished Speaker’ award.

Dr. Ronald Hirsch is a Vice President of the Regulations and Education Group at R1 Physician Advisory Services. He completed his internal medicine residency at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Hollywood, CA.

Dr. Hirsch was a general internist and HIV specialist and practiced at Signature Medical Associates, a multispecialty practice located in Elgin, IL. He was Medical Director of Case Management at Sherman Hospital in Elgin, IL from 2006 to 2012.

Dr. Hirsch is certified in Health Care Quality and Management by the American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians, is a member of the American Case Management Association, on the Advisory Board of the American College of Physician Advisors, a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, and on the advisory board of the National Association of Healthcare Revenue Integrity. He is the co-author of The Hospital Guide to Contemporary Utilization Review, which was published in 2015.

Day Egusquiza is President of AR Systems, Inc. and brings over 30 years experience in health care reimbursement, hospital business office operations, contracting and compliance implementation. During her 20 years as Director of Revenue and Reimbursement at a community hospital in Idaho, she also was Director of a Physician Medical Management billing service, where she completed an integrated business office between a hospital and a large physician clinic. Her work includes providing guidance as a compliance & APC educator while providing operational insight on the revenue cycle impacts of RAC/Medicare Recovery Audit Contractors. Ms Egusquiza is a nationally recognized speaker on continuous quality improvement (CQI), benchmarking, redesigning, reimbursement systems and implementing an operational focus of compliance – both in hospitals and practices. She has been on the AAHAM National Advisory Council, HFMA National Advisory Council, and is a past President of the Idaho HFMA Chapter & recently received the Lifetime Achievement Award. Attendees at HFMA’s ANI rated her in the top 25% for each year she has presented, earning her the ‘Distinguished Speaker’ award.

Day Egusquiza is President of AR Systems, Inc. and brings over 30 years experience in health care reimbursement, hospital business office operations, contracting and compliance implementation. During her 20 years as Director of Revenue and Reimbursement at a community hospital in Idaho, she also was Director of a Physician Medical Management billing service, where she completed an integrated business office between a hospital and a large physician clinic. Her work includes providing guidance as a compliance & APC educator while providing operational insight on the revenue cycle impacts of RAC/Medicare Recovery Audit Contractors. Ms Egusquiza is a nationally recognized speaker on continuous quality improvement (CQI), benchmarking, redesigning, reimbursement systems and implementing an operational focus of compliance – both in hospitals and practices. She has been on the AAHAM National Advisory Council, HFMA National Advisory Council, and is a past President of the Idaho HFMA Chapter & recently received the Lifetime Achievement Award. Attendees at HFMA’s ANI rated her in the top 25% for each year she has presented, earning her the ‘Distinguished Speaker’ award.

Ms. Lamkin is a national speaker and author on operations, quality, utilization, and billing compliance.

She has over 25 years of experience as a hospital CEO and has served in teaching hospitals, and non-profit and investor owned sectors of healthcare where she developed forward thinking systems to improve quality and utilization.

Ms. Lamkin is CEO and Partner in PACE Healthcare Consulting, LLC offering strategy, operations, analytics and software solutions to hospitals, physicians and other sectors of healthcare.

Ms. Lamkin holds a Masterís in Healthcare Administration, from the University of South Carolina, Columbia BA Cum Laude, Core in Business Administration, from the University of South Carolina.

John is a results-oriented healthcare professional who brings over 30 years of experience in clinical orthopedics, health insurance, and hospital systems to create strategic and tactical solutions for hospital systems. He works with his clients to develop strategies that increase their revenues by leading operational and financial engagements to achieve their systems goals with solutions based on their unique markets and dynamics.

Prior to consulting, Mr. Montaine served as a senior hospital executive for two multi-facility integrated Texas hospital systems, and he served in senior executive roles developing and running national and regional health plans in Texas and Florida.

Mr. Montaine has been a member of HFMA since 1999 where he achieved the nationís highest score on HFMAís certification exam for Managed Care in 2008. He started with the Gulf Coast chapter where he was as an officer, Board member, and committee chair, before moving to the South TX chapter in 2003 where he was the South Texas Chapter President for 2009-10. He has been awarded the Follmer Bronze, Reeves Silver, and Muncie Gold merit awards and was awarded the Medal of Honor by the South Texas Chapter in 2011. He continues to serve the South Texas Chapter on the Texas statewide committee and on the Region 9 planning committee.

In addition to his Fellow status in HFMA, Mr. Montaine holds a certification in Risk Management from the American Academy of Health Law and has been a Diplomat of the American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians since 1996. He serves on the BOD of the San Antonio Rugby Football Club where he enjoys playing Rugby as time permits, and scuba diving with his wife of over 30 years. They have 3 adult children.