Ata Hashem
Overview
37
37
years of professional experience
Work History
Director of international operation
Houston Eye Associates
03.2017 - Current
- Preparing Business plan for the Middle East.
- Engaged in negotiation with Partners to open and run ophthalmology clinics in Kuwait.
- Hiring doctors and nurses.
- Prepare Marketing Documents and Guideline.
- Coordinate legal and Banking in the Region.
- Buying Medical equipment, negotiating with insurance companies.
- Sign Management agreements with four hospitals.
- I Manage 7 clinics with twenty-one full time doctors and rotate American doctors every 3 months for period of 2 weeks.
- Total people I manage about sixty-three, from front desk, back office, Nurses.
- I am responsible for the Billing, claims, and posting.
- My duties are running the Total Operation of the clinics.
Revenue Cycle Director
Houston Eye Associates
03.2015 - 03.2017
- Directed financial accounting operation for 54 Locations, plus a surgery center.
- Managed all Billing and collection and managed care Personal.
- Managed and coordinated all activities related to financial reporting (A/R, EMR).
- Supervise 53 People in Claims processing, Patients, Insurance billing, and patients billing, posting team, and supervised 4 Managers.
- Working with 84 Physicians to capture their revenues, collections, and payment, and to make sure their charges are posted correctly in the system.
- Creating on weekly basis and monthly the revenue per each physician and their collection to discuss with them any variance.
- Performing special projects for the CEO and working as team leader for EMR implementation.
Medical Consultant - Middle East
ART, Inc.
11.2007 - 02.2015
- Established important and vital relations with Medical Sectors in the Middle East in Private and Government sectors.
- Sold telemedicine equipment in Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
- Negotiated various business contracts and developed strategic plans.
- Create feasibility studies for various medical institutions.
- Experienced in laws and regulations of establishing branches for foreign companies.
- Working with different projects, I collaborated closely with John Hopkins, MD Anderson, and UNMC in Omaha Nebraska.
- I also worked with Vrad company which is the largest radiology company in the world out of Minnesota, and Epic system out of Wisconsin
- I worked on project in Kuwait with HDR Company which is the largest hospital design company in the world from Omaha Nebraska.
- Each project I worked on, my responsibility was budget planning, cash flow, and the expenses of the project.
- Working with the banks on L/C and bank transfer of funds to vendors and suppliers.
- Experienced in: Clinical and financial information systems evaluation, selection, contract negotiation, and implementation.
- Experienced with Cerner, Epic, Meditech, and Vera Suite.
- Assisted with 14 Information System implementation projects: six in the Middle East.
- Developed strategic plans and feasibility studies for Middle East-based healthcare companies.
- Previous projects included selection, installation, training, conversion, and going live.
- Wrote Arabic software for the ministry of interior in Saudi Arabia.
- Implementation of Meditech at HCA hospital.
- Implementation of Vera suite at 6 military hospitals in Saudi Arabia.
- Implementation of Epic at the Cleveland clinic hospital in Abu Dhabi.
- Implementation of Cerner at hospital 57357 cancer hospital for children in Egypt.
- Implementation of Meditech for American Hospital in Dubai.
Director Physician Practice Operations-OBGYN
Materni Care
06.1996 - 09.2007
- Created and implemented clinical guidelines for comprehensive medical services for women.
- Established practice standards for physician networks and groups.
- Initiated coordination of clinical and financial information systems.
- Responsible for strategic analysis of markets.
- Supervised nine directors and a staff of 132 within thirteen locations.
- Supervise, and direct all non-faculty staff to ensure the clinic operates in an efficient manner and that the patients receive high quality customer service.
- Work in conjunction with Patient Financial Services to implement billing and collecting procedures.
- Ensure that staff are trained and educated in all government, national, and medical coding, and billing regulations.
- Monitor delivery of patient services including direct oversight of administrative and staff.
- Participate with Quality Management to achieve Meaningful Use and other Quality Measures, deadlines, requirements, and mitigate potential fiscal impact.
- Completes various special projects, which may require reviewing and analyzing information, identifying problems, recommending solutions, and drafting reports.
- Implement internal policies and procedures and update as needed.
- Function as the clinic liaison with patients, businesses, hospitals, academic administration, and faculty.
- Work in conjunction with Health Information Management to ensure that all state and federal regulations governing the release of information is followed.
- Actively participate in the onboarding and education processes for physicians and support staff.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
- Maintain Accounts Payable for the region and did consolidation, verifying validity of invoices and expenses.
- Maintain Accounts Receivable for the region; address deficient performance or poor cash flow status.
- Maintain Collections and monitor the cash flow.
- Financial Statement Preparation for the region.
- Budget Preparation - Oversee Budget Preparation, as well as providing sound advice to address staff and/or cost reduction, as well as conducting Board or Investor presentations.
- Accounting Systems - Evaluation and implementation of accounting software programs.
- Payroll ensures this function is always completed properly and in a timely manner.
- Month-End Closing & Account Reconciliation.
- Responsible for the leadership, direction and support of all Hospice billing and collections operations and processes for a multi-state hospice provider. Manages the design, implementation, and maintenance of the managed care information system, including Managed Care databases, education manuals, and contract rate dissemination.
- Managed the timely and accurate loading of market managed care contracts.
- Analyzes contractual language for functional, financial, and ethical appropriateness.
- Determines compliance with established legal requirements and negotiates contract language for signature in a manner consistent with the parameters established by company.
- Working with forty-five physicians, we did their billing and collection and claims. processing as part of our management contract. Every physician was a revenue center.
- Posted their charges daily, and created reports per physician about daily activity, charges, and posted payment.
- Claims processing for all physicians daily.
- Create reports on weekly basis on under payment claims to discuss with physicians.
- In coordination with leadership, develop, implement, and maintain unambiguous reimbursement rate structures that ensure efficient, automated billing and collections to ensure receipt of proper payment from contract payers.
- Designs, manages, and implements in-service training on managed care contracts for the administrative staff.
- Develops and manages financially viable managed care contracts.
- Manages the planning process for all contract renewals and negotiations including assessment of historical performance and issues. Prepares fiscal impact analysis/modeling on new and revised contracts and maintains oversight tracking and yield determination.
CFO
Durham Medical Clinic
03.1995 - 06.1996
- Directed financial accounting operation for a $ 25,000,000 a year center.
- Managed all banking activities (including line of credit).
- Managed and coordinated all activities related to financial reporting (A/R, A/P, Purchasing and MIS).
- Prepared P&L statements, balance sheets and cash flow.
- Supervised four directors and a staff of fifty-two in a network of six locations.
- Working with 32 Physicians with different specialties, to capture their revenues, collections, and payment, and to make sure their charges are posted correctly in the system.
- Creating on weekly basis and monthly the revenue per each physician and their collection to discuss with them any variance.
CFO
Houston Imaging Center / Columbia HCA Hospital
06.1988 - 08.1994
- Prepared budget reports and financial statements.
- Negotiated managed care HMO/PPO contracts and fee schedules with forty companies and 1 IPA (northwest IPA). Negotiated with doctors and attorneys.
- Negotiated with Columbia/HCA the acquisition of Houston Imaging Center.
- Preparation of a feasibility study and projections for the acquisition.
- Directed computerization of manual accounting and billing system for medical facility.
- End of the Month Closing.
- Supervised six directors and a staff of eighty-two within twelve locations.
- Twelve locations of full diagnostic Imaging from MRI, CT, Ultrasound, X-ray, Nuclear.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Accounting and Management Information Systems
University of Texas in Dallas
Skills
- Extensive financial and accounting management experience
- Effective administrator/manager
- Excellent communications skills
- Fluent in English, French and Arabic (written and verbal)
- Expert on MAS90, IDX, Great plain, Real World and Microsoft Packages
- US Citizen holding US Passport
- Experience with over fourteen computer conversion and installation in healthcare
- Experience with Meditech, Epic, Versa suite, Cerner Lawson medical, Medinformatix, Nextech, Amkai surgery software
Accomplishments
Create a new international division in Kuwait.
Languages
English
Full Professional
French
Full Professional
Arabic
Full Professional
Timeline
Director of international operation
Houston Eye Associates
03.2017 - Current
Revenue Cycle Director
Houston Eye Associates
03.2015 - 03.2017
Medical Consultant - Middle East
ART, Inc.
11.2007 - 02.2015
Director Physician Practice Operations-OBGYN
Materni Care
06.1996 - 09.2007
CFO
Durham Medical Clinic
03.1995 - 06.1996
CFO
Houston Imaging Center / Columbia HCA Hospital
06.1988 - 08.1994
Bachelor of Science - Accounting and Management Information Systems
University of Texas in Dallas
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