Alvarez & Marsal: Healthcare Industry Group

Cristina Inglese, Executive Director, Commercial Products, is an inspiring member of L.A. Care Health Plan’s leadership team. She is dedicated to making a positive impact in the community, as well as within her organization, by focusing on mentorship and employee experience to drive business goals and growth. A&M Managing Director, Doris Stein, and Senior Associate, Katie Thompson, spoke with Cristina to learn more about her career journey and how she is setting her team up to continue to deliver value to their community and organization.

On this International Women’s Day, we are happy to share our latest Significant Healthcare Voices episode with an incredible leader, Coreen Dicus-Johnson, President & CEO, of Network Health. On this episode, she talked with A&M Managing Director, Doris Stein, to share her journey and how she is working to improve the care for those in her community.

A career dedicated to serving pediatric patients is admirable and inspiring. Lara Khouri, MBA, MPH, Executive Vice President & COO of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, has done just that. She is the latest healthcare leader to be highlighted on A&M’s Significant Healthcare Voices Podcast Series. She talked with A&M Senior Director, Eliza Medearis, to share her story.

Pivotal moments throughout her career helped shape her leadership style and her dedication to paving the way for future women leaders in Healthcare.  Sonia Millsom, Chief Executive Officer of Oxeon, joined A&M Managing Director, Kristina Park, and Senior Associate, Emily Strack, on our Significant Healthcare Voices Podcast Series to share her career journey and impact she is striving to make for women in healthcare.

Earlier this year, CMS finalized multiple rules that impact MAOs, with significant ramifications to procedures for RADV audits. Listen as A&M Healthcare Industry Group Managing Director, Jeff de Los Reyes and Christina Steiner, Senior Director, talk with Brian Stimson, Partner at McDermott Will & Emery, to discuss actions that plans should consider in advance of these changes.

Managing your workforce is continuously evolving and can be enhanced by technology that can improve efficiency and decrease costs. In the latest episode of our The Future of Healthcare Human Capital and Workforce Management series, A&M Managing Directors Bianca A. Briola and David Nidetz were joined by Med-Metrix’s Ross Steele, Vice President of Denials Process and Strategy, and Gaurav Gupta, Senior Vice President of Product Strategy and Performance Management, to discuss automation trends in healthcare revenue cycle management.

In Episode 2, A&M Healthcare Industry Group’s Supply Chain Leader, Tim Berkey, is joined by Doug Johnson, System Vice President Supply Chain at Alameda Health System. Doug shares his insights about leveraging strategic vendor partnerships to achieve improvements in cost and operations, how to compete for supply chain labor, and what strategies are best to accomplish more with less.

Healthcare Market Perspectives: Quarterly Podcast

In this Quarterly Podcast, A&M’s Leaders discuss the latest issues and trends driving change across U.S. healthcare. Our leaders share insights and perspectives from their firsthand experience collaborating with healthcare organizations to develop and implement strategies to solve for the challenges they face today.

In this episode, Stuart McLean, A&M Healthcare Industry Group’s Health System Practice Leader, is joined by Martin McGahan, A&M Healthcare Industry Co-Head, to talk through the dynamic time hospitals are entering. The pandemic impacts still have lasting ripples as hospitals and health systems are caught between economic headwinds and their mission to provide quality care in the community.
Topics of discussion included:
• Current state of US health systems - financial performance
• Wage inflation and labor challenges
• The impact of Medicaid changes
• Changes in care delivery

This series is hosted by A&M Healthcare Industry Group’s Supply Chain Practice Leader, Tim Berkey. The series will feature healthcare industry leaders discussing the most pressing challenges facing supply chain today. 

In Episode 1, Tim Berkey, spoke with A&M Healthcare Industry Group Co-Head, Peter Urbanowicz, about the most pressuring supply chain issues facing healthcare organizations today. Topics of discussion included, clinical integration, supply chain challenges facing hospitals and strategies to address them.

There is no doubt the pandemic intensified and exacerbated an already stressed healthcare workforce. On the frontlines and across healthcare organizations, supporting healthcare workers while solving for wage inflation and shortages became top of mind for leaders.

At this pivot point in healthcare, the need for new and innovative solutions is critical. A&M Healthcare Industry Group’s Human Capital and Workforce Management Practice Leader, Bianca A. Briola, is sitting down with smart people taking on big problems to dive deep into the solutions they are developing to address our most pressing workforce issues.