Professional Highlights
Jeff Pomeroy has over twenty years of experience in the healthcare industry, specializing in process and system improvements designed to increase revenue/collections through the use of Athenahealth software. Extensive expertise in the areas of project management for system implementation and management Vendor Search & Selection experience.
Relevant Experience
Lead Consultant
KAV Consulting, LLC
2012 - Present
Director of Information Technology
McKesson Corporation, Weatogue, CT
2007 - 2012
- Client liaison for our IT ASP relationship at a $240 million customer in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
- Direct management of 5 analysts who perform support, reporting and installation tasks in GE Centricity Business.
- Technical liaison to internal customers, external customers, and to the McKesson sales team for prospective clients.
Senior Application Analyst
Baystate Health, Springfield, MA
2004 - 2007
- Served as the liaison from IS to the physician business office supporting all back end billing functions.
- Support and project management of new processes in IDX/GE BAR, PCS, TES, and outgoing paper/EDI claims.
- Support of the front end team as needed which supports IDX/GE SCHED, VM, and Call Center.
- I have directed many projects including, HIPAA NPI readiness, EDI secondary billing, redesign of the PCS system, and redesign of the refund process which allowed the electronic transmittal of checks to the AP system.
Senior Consultant/Senior Software Engineer
Terahealth Incorporated, Plymouth, MA
2001 - 2004
- Developed and supported a HIPAA compliant eligibility verification product for several customers using BizTalk.
- Served as a project manager performing HIPAA readiness on IDX EDI and custom AES Mumps programming services.
- Designed and programmed in Mumps an IDX AES application to track HIPAA protected data requests.
- Designed and implemented a new product line for the reconciliation of capitated services.
Director of Information Technology
Premier Physician Services, Long Beach, CA
2000 - 2001
- Designed a 24/7 support structure for the IS department and deployed an issue tracking system to monitor performance.
- Set the information systems project agenda for the enhancement of our existing systems and responsible for 18 employees.
- Participated in vendor management and support.
- The information systems structure included:
- Microsoft NT file, print sharing, and Exchange e-mail services with a Cisco LAN/WAN and internet connectivity.
- IDX BAR, IDX SCHED, and IDX MCA on a Compaq Alpha running OpenVMS.
Manager, Practice Management Technologies
UniMed Management Company, Burbank, CA
1998 - 2000
- Technical liaison for the IDX BAR, IDX SCHED, and IDX MCA systems to application managers and analysts.
- Planned and executed Y2K testing on our implementation of the IDX system.
- Designed and programmed an application in Mumps to electronically transfer claim information directly to the IDX MCA system. This application processes the equivalent of 3 data entry FTEs/month.
- Helped to plan and execute a project that allowed two business entities running on a single version of the IDX system to split apart and run on independent information systems.
Senior Project Leader
IDX Systems Corporation, Burlington, VT
1994 - 1998
- Coordinated with third-party vendors to design the integration of the IDXRAD system with imaging systems.
Software Engineer II/Senior Software Engineer
IDX Systems Corporation, Burlington, VT
1994 - 1997
- Responsible for the management and timely completion of computer interface and data conversion projects in Mumps.
- Responsible for technical consulting and programming on product installations and had direct interaction with customers.
Education
Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY
1991
- Bachelor of Arts
- Major in Computer Sciences
University of Connecticut, West Hartford, CT
- Financial Account and Reporting
Vendor/Application Experience
Athenahealth
- Billing and Accounts Receivable (BAR)
- Paperless Collections System (PCS)
- DBMS - both Report Writer and Screen Builder
- FDL
- EDI Toolkit
- Claim Form Generator
- Scheduling (SCHED)
- Transaction Editing System (TES)
- Enterprise Task Manager (ETM)
- Payor Contracts Module (PCM)
- Visit Manager (VM)
Technical Experience
Languages: MUMPS, BASIC
- Protocols: ANSI X12 (HIPAA) 4010 and 5010, HL7, XML
- Operating Systems: VMS, Unix (AIX), DOS, MS Windows
- Various applications: MS SQL, MS Office