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Education/Memberships/Credentials
University of Colorado at Boulder – Leeds School of Business
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration
Dual emphasis in Finance and Information Management
Boulder, CO
Ellie Richardson is a manager at Coker Group. She has six years of healthcare experience focusing on integrated kidney care and physician and provider compensation. She worked collaboratively with hospital executives and healthcare attorneys to provide strategic support on fair market value and commercial reasonableness of physician and provider compensation to ensure compliance with the Anti-Kickback Statue and Stark Law. At Coker, she is focused on compensation strategy, compensation reimbursement models, incentive-based contracts, physician alignment, and payer reimbursement strategies.
Experience
- Conducted financial analyses on various kinds of physician compensation and professional service arrangements to determine fair market value.
- Worked collaboratively with hospital administration, executive leadership, and attorneys to structure physician and provider compensation to ensure operational efficiency while remaining in compliance with the Anti-Kickback Statue and Stark Law.
- Assisted clients nationally on operational efficiency for various coverage-based specialties.
- Developed ROI analyses to purse value-based care arrangements in the dialysis space.