Roger Crook PDF Print E-mail


Fifteen of Roger’s twenty nine years in health industry decision support and information technology were spent with McKesson’s Amherst Product Group in a variety of management and consulting roles.  Roger also had brief stints with Transition Systems, Inc. and Medicus Systems.

Roger specializes in cost accounting using HPM and TRENDSTAR, and HBI, including HBI SQL Server customizations.

 

Degrees:

MBA, Kellogg School, Northwestern University
Healthcare Management, Finance

BS, College of William & Mary
Biology, English

 

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Past Projects:

  • Design and implementation of HPM cost accounting for a variety of sole community providers and health systems.

  • Revenue models for Trendstar and HPM customers combining actual payments, contract management expected payments and estimates based on patient accounting activity.

  • Custom SQL Server and Microsoft Access applications for interfacing, data transformation and loading into HPM, HBI and Trendstar.

  • Core measures and AHRQ data applications in HBI.

  • Decision support needs analysis  

  • System and vendor criteria development and evaluation

  • Devised mechanism for allocation of service-specific medical education expenses and revenues using patient level activity measures

  • Revenue rules for NJ Medicaid, NY Medicaid, Federal CMG

  • Analysis of recurring outpatient activity to enhance revenues

  • Rules to allocate charity and payor adjustment pools to patients to support fully allocated P&Ls

  • Bone marrow transplant, episode based reimbursement rule

  • Integration and analysis of denied payments data to enhance revenues

  • Integration of HCUP national benchmark standards into analysis

  • Extraction and use of APR-DRG severity adjusted benchmarks from large state data sets

  • Benchmarking and clinical analysis to reduce clinical resources and costs

  • Product line contribution and resource analyses to support profitability improvement

  • Design and building of online management report networks

  • Physician, payor and management performance report card design and build

  • Executive, management, physician and board-level education

  • Development of corporate allocation and fully burdened pro forma income statements

  • Integration and analysis of outcomes measures

  • Outcomes analysis using severity measures including 3M APR-DRGs and MediQual

  • Implementation, analysis and benchmarking using national, state and proprietary data sets

  • Developed national decision support consulting services organization

  • Cost accounting design and implementation

  • Benefits Realization/Return on Investment studies

  • Market based service analysis

  • Ambulatory health care data collection process design

  • Ambulatory business and clinical process audits

  • Information systems design and consulting

  • Clinical coding quality assessments

  • Ambulatory medical records system installation