Janet Price

In our Consulting practice, we offer Leadership Advisor & Coaching, Interim Leadership, Program and Project Management, Performance Improvement or Transformation, System Implementation support, Employee Training, Policies/Procedure/Training Manual creation, Team Building & Employee Retention Strategy, KPI & Employee Metric development and staff augmentation. In our coaching practice, we work with individuals whom are going through a transition (tragedy in their life, natural disaster, COVID coping, going into the teen years, divorcing, widowed, job loss/change, questioning their purpose, stuck in life) that want to go from surviving to THRIVING! Many of our clients are in dissatisfying relationships, entering the divorce process, struggling with their co-parenting relationship, and or have been disconnected from their children - We help these clients find about what they really WANT and build loving, lasting, relationships with their children!

Director for California Contracting & Network management accountable for identifying & transforming operational and business practices in order to position the department to achieve aggressive strategic growth initiatives while decreasing the human capital resource requirements. Initiatives led and implemented:  Overall Contracting Operations technology workflow implementation  Designed & Operationalized Downstream Entity Oversight program for organization  Department policies, procedures, job role & responsibilities, & job performance expectations  Reporting tools & databases in order to provide transparency to regional stakeholders & measure department service level agreements and performance

Served in various consulting roles while at my time with Kaiser. Experience includes: Business architect on a national claims implementation; acting manager for the CA claims compliance unit; Business unit compliance strategic advisor

As owner of my own business, I was responsible for all business development, revenue collection, and consulting services delivered to small and medium sized local businesses. -Created strategic business plan and implemented plan for an international business looking to build presence in Malibu. -Acted as Interim COO for business while implementing the plan and searching for the appropriate resources to hire on a long-term basis. Business now has a revenue generating farm operation, school outreach education program, facility movie site location center, and multiple partnerships with local restaurants for their products. -Developed, implemented, and operated new product line for local business that increased annual revenues by more than $20,000. -Created strategic business plan for start-up business in order to obtain additional venture capital funding required to launch business. -Designed and ensured implementation of several website storefront applications for multiple businesses to gain market share and online presence. -Advisor on several community based organizations providing strategic consulting and operational expertise.

Managed a group of highly skilled healthcare operational consultants on the day to day projects for large physician groups and hospital organizations. Our team focused on large scale, multi-year Revenue Cycle and Clinical Operation improvement projects that were, +$1 million dollars in revenue and drove significant financial savings for our clients. -Go – To Senior, on-sight, Client Manager responsible for leading a team of 5-15 consulting resources through the successful completion of the client engagements. Responsibilities included: Lead client contact, project risk management and remediation, manage client billing, ensure project met objectives and timelines, generate additional revenue opportunities at the client site. -Knowledge Expert for both the client (COO of Physician Practices and Hospital Organizations) and the consulting team in revenue cycle operations and clinical operational improvement projects leading to over $24 million in cost savings for our clients. -Consulting team manager responsible for providing leadership, mentoring, training, and evaluations to our team members, resulting in our firm being known as the ‘go-to’ consulting firm for large revenue cycle and operational improvement projects. -Participated in initial client meetings to understand client problems, develop appropriate consulting proposal for services, and develop project delivery model, staffing, methodology, and successful outcomes.

Managed a group of healthcare consultants on the day to day revenue cycle and patient access projects. Personally developed and implemented a ‘revenue cycle’ consulting practice product that firm partners were able to market and sell to potential clients. -Led consulting teams to implement new operational processes for the patient access, data capture, and revenue cycle process eliminating excess days in AR, new cash posting processes, maximizing EDI claim submission and remittance and aggressively processing collections. -Managed multiple client engagements through the implementation of new systems required due to Y2K incompatibility. -Considered an expert in understanding the needs of the business users and translating these needs into implemented new technology platforms. This work included: technology solution selection, business user requirement development, operational policies and procedures, and conducting user training. -Internal leader for our consulting team on revenue cycle, patient access, and consulting methodologies to be utilized on client engagements. -Led cross-functional county owned clinical team (physicians, nurses, and social workers) in the development of new clinical pathways for several key high cost diagnosis groupings including pediatric asthma patients, end-stage renal disease patients, and HIV members that led to a combined identified savings of over $10 million. -Led cross-facility county owned medical records department team (labor union employees) in the identification and implementation of operational improvement practices resulting in $5 million in savings across the 5 hospital settings.

• Nursing Home Administrator on record for 177 bed SNF. • Maintained at least 98% capacity in a 177 bed facility. • Directly responsible for maintaining the quality of nursing, dietary, and maintenance to Title 22 licensing guidelines.