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Director, Bureau of Vital Access Provider Reimbursement, Office of Health Insurance Programs, NYS Department of Health. (Retired)

John began his career as an analyst with the NYS Department of Health in the Division of Health Care Financing. graduated from Bryant College with a BS degree in Accounting in 1977. Started in the Department of Health in the fall of that year, with the Division of Health Care Financing as a health care fiscal analyst and became Assistant Director in 1985 of the Bureau of Hospital Reimbursement. This bureau was merged with primary care and John became Director of the Bureau of Primary and Acute Care Reimbursement in 2005. This Bureau was responsible for all Medicaid Hospital and free-standing clinic rate setting, cost reporting and appeals. Some of the major responsibilities during his career were the implementation of the NYPHRM, HCRA and recent Medicaid Reform rate setting systems with particular involvement in the Indigent Care Pools since their inception in 1983, coordination of the Federal DSH audits for NYS, various redesigns and updates of the Institutional Cost Report, and the development and implementation of electronic rate sheet distribution through E-mail, Health Commerce System (HCS) and the WEB.  In May of 2013, a reorganization of the Division of Finance and Rate Setting changed his duties where he was responsible for all provider cost reports, the Vital Access Provider Program, DSRIP program development, capital reimbursement and nursing home litigation. John retired in August 2014 after 37 years with NYS Department of Health. Now self-employed, he currently works with CHC to provide health care finance consulting work including DSRIP, Medicare and Medicaid DSH, NYS ICR, audits, FQHC applications, UPL and other related activities.