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Sally E. Ragsdale 

Background Summary

Business Management professional with over 30 years experience in the healthcare field. Consulting experience has focused on physician practice management, including mergers and start-ups, coding and reimbursement analysis, operational assessments, regulatory agency compliance (including Medicare, HIPAA, OSHA and CLIA), JCAHO compliance, documentation and risk management audits.

EXPERIENCE
  • Practice Management Consultant, 1990-1996
    • Provided practice management services to healthcare clients of CPA firm
    • Provided divisional marketing, regulatory compliance oversight, and practice management of multiple physician practices, including financial and strategic planning and accounts receivable management.
    • Responsible for new practice startup and mergers, regulatory compliance, and budgeting
    • Coordinated and presented practice management seminars.

  • Practice Administrator, Hospital MSO, 1996-2000
    • Responsible for practice management services for 40 physician practice sites.
    • Implemented the start-up of University student health center, including all management functions, marketing, and public speaking engagements to create public awareness.
    • Provided budgeting and financial analysis, human resource management, operational assessments, and cost management for primary care practice sites.
    • Coordinated first-ever JCAHO survey of ambulatory sites, achieving accreditation

  • Director of Compliance and Practice Management, 2000-2003
    • Responsible for all regulatory compliance and management consulting engagements, including strategic planning, operational assessments, compliance programs, and financial management
    • Coordinated sales and marketing for central Florida and Nevada markets.
    • Frequent contributor of practice management articles to FLORIDA MEDICAL BUSINESS.

  • Current: Management Consultant
    • Provide business and management consulting services to healthcare clients.

  • Other – Community Service and Honors (Current & Past)
    • Director and Founder of UPS for Downs, a parent-professional group offering support and educational services to persons with Down Syndrome
    • Habitat for Humanity, Selection Committee, 2005-present
    • Kiwanis Club, member, 2003 to present, Board of Directors, 2004-present

EDUCATION
  • A.A.S. Business Administration, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York
  • B.S. Business Management, St. Mary of the Woods College, Terre Haute, Indiana, graduated Magna Cum Laude