ADRIAN ECHEVERRIA, MHA

Oversaw Financial, HR, Strategic, and Operations processes across four separate clinical practices and a physician organization, ensuring the optimal allocation of time and resources.

Leadership

• Managed teams of 35-40 direct reports across four separate teams

Project Management

• Led opening of satellite clinic, overseeing property acquisition, renovations, team recruitment, training, and implementation of standardized policies and procedures
• Coordinated region's only in-office mammography program, ensuring seamless integration into existing operations

Financial Management

• Managed physician organization's financial and controlling interests in the ambulatory surgery center
• Performed claims data analysis and optimization of revenue processes, resulting in 200% year-over-year increase in net revenue (2022-2023)
• Secured and managed Federal grant funding for rural clinics, including comprehensive reporting and compliance

Operations

• Improved overall operational efficiency by streamlining workflows across multiple clinical practices
• Standardized clinical, HR, and revenue cycle policies and procedures to enhance consistency and performance across organization

Strategic Management

• Developed and implemented strategic growth plan that enabled clinical practice to expand from 3 to 6 providers, increasing service capacity (2023-2024)
• Coordinated value-based care initiatives with Catalyst Health, reducing ER utilization, improving healthcare access, and lowering overall regional healthcare costs

HR Operations

• Conducted comprehensive HR audit and updated systems, processes, policies, and procedures to optimize workforce management and compliance across organization

Established and led physician staffing organization to meet local healthcare needs.

• Founded organization, recruiting initial group of 20 ER physicians to address community staffing gaps
• Orchestrated long-term strategy, while managing facility contracts, physician scheduling, credentialing, and invoicing

• Reviewed and advised multi-hospital and multi-specialty health systems on revenue cycle operations, clinical denials management, COVID-19 response, compliance effectiveness, risk management, and documentation and coding integrity.
• Analyzed and tested data within EMR, 835/837 billing data, and reporting systems to identify areas for improvement.
• Delivered ongoing advisory services to enhance operational efficiency, maintain regulatory compliance, and align with industry best practices.

Drove and supported high impact projects that supported operations and revenue to improve overall performance across the hospital system

• Conducted comprehensive business assessment of 22 outpatient therapy clinics, generating direct return of $2M and laying groundwork for initiatives in billing/charging policies, scheduling/staffing models, and IT integration
• Developed 2.5-year, multidisciplinary project framework to improve patient progression and capacity management efficiencies, projected to achieve $20-30M in savings and capacity creation.