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Vice President Revenue Cycle

The symptom management clinic is an example of efforts that earned Cone Health an Innovator Award for cancer care. It was an up and down day forDonna Sturges. Nothing she ate stayed down. When she lifted up her head, she became dizzy. Sturges was...

Healthcare finance professional with a progressively responsible management career providing financial and department operations leadership for patient financial services (PFS) and business offices. Managed PFS and business offices for organizations with up to $2 billion in annual net revenues. Strong analytical and accounting skills gained through earlier financial accounting background. Proven ability to build top-performing operations and turn around under-performing departments by reducing "days in A/R," improving collections performance, and training / leading professional, highly productive teams. Proficient in EPIC, HBOC Star, Syntellect, Showcase, CTVision, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and SQL. Expertise includes: Department Operations Management Department Turnaround Business Office Start-Up & Management PFS Management A/R Analysis Budgeting & Expense Control Third Party Reimbursement Billing & Collections Technology Implementation Staff Training & Leadership MBA, Healthcare Management (2004) Specialties: accountancy, accounting, accounts receivable, ap style, arbitration, billing, budgeting, cfo, contract management, conversion, customer satisfaction, customer service, finance, financial, information systems, insurance, ivrs, macromedia director, microsoft access, microsoft office, modeling, operations management, policy analysis, process engineering, proposal writing, receiving, sales, scheduling, switchboard operator, tables, workflow analysis,