Emily Sawyer

• Performs benchmarking analysis for 7 BSWH hospitals.
• Coordinates with hospital departmental level leadership to ensure benchmarking data accurately represents ongoing operations and complies with Vizient ODB guidelines.
• Communicates benchmarking results to leadership in an understandable way in order to identify actionable steps to improve efficiency.
• Manages process to align internal productivity (MRS) and external benchmarking results each quarter to develop budget labor targets.

• Calculated and manages monthly and quarterly provider compensation for 126 physicians across 16 unique partnerships with varying compensation agreements.
• Communicated with providers about their compensation resolving questions and worked with revenue cycle staff to identify and resolve billing and payment posting issues.
• Modeled prospective provider compensation structures for potential acquisitions showing the anticipated expense based on various structures and growth factors.
• Analyzed billable and non-billable supply expenses and revenue on a monthly basis and calculated adjustments to inventory and expense based on purchase and volumes.
• Performed analysis of income statement variances working with accounting staff to correct issues during month end close.
• Designed and prepares analytical reports which are distributed to both finance and department leadership for monitoring ongoing expense trends.

• Performed ongoing/monthly financial performance projection, reporting, and monitoring for a multi-department specialty hospital with locations in Dallas, Fort Worth, & Waxahachie.
• Assisted CFO with creation of annual budget and long-range financial plan for the hospital, developing targets to align with hospital and health-system financial goals.
• Designed and prepared timely and accurate financial and statistical reports with interpretation as required to support effective operations.
• Conducted regularly scheduled reviews of financial performance and productivity with hospital department leadership.
• Coordinated the development, prioritization, and implementation of hospital capital budget and purchase activities.
• Responsible for the collection of data necessary to prepare journal entries.
• Developed and presented financial data analysis to hospital leadership on an ad hoc basis.

Started at USPI as a rotational accountant working through the company's 3 major accounting departments. Learned and performed the functions of staff level role in each department, gained experience with full cycle financial reporting, variance analysis, budgeting, and corporate consolidation accounting for a large healthcare organization. In Nov 2018, settled in Internal Audit permanently at staff level. Promoted to Senior Auditor in Mar 2020.

• Lead audit teams consisting of 2-3 team members in onsite and remote audits of ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs) and surgical hospitals. Audits covered operational, financial, revenue cycle, IT, and compliance controls included planning, executing, and communicating findings to process owners.
• Worked with clinical, business office and administrative staff to assess compliance with internal controls and identify areas for process improvements.
• Developed training workbook for testing revenue cycle controls at Cerner based surgical hospitals.
• Performed annual Sarbanes-Oxley testing for key control areas across the organization.
• Assisted audit manager in completion of Stark Hospital Compliance Audits by conducting testing and hospital leadership interviews for 30 hospitals.
• Trained new staff members on the audit program and testing procedures.

Started as an entry level student worker performing student account collections duties. Earned promotions to the role of Office Manager and Billings Assistant.

• Managed 10 student workers to accomplish daily student contact and collections tasks.
• Invoiced third parties to facilitate payment of approximately 200 student balances each semester.