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Hunter Consulting was exactly what our organization needed. The firm's vast industry knowledge and real world experience - having been there many times over - proved invaluable to our turnaround efforts.
Executive Director
We didn't have the luxury of selecting the wrong consultants. Hunter Consulting understood exactly what analysis was necessary and began making significant change within weeks.
CFO
The turnaround Mr. Hunter and his staff provided for us was nothing short of miraculous.
CEO
Hunter Consulting found millions of dollars in opportunities we were leaving on the table. Not only did the firm identify real dollars, they assisted in the implementation and roll-out of the new processes necessary to capture these revenues.
Manager, Revenue Cycle
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With over twenty-five years of industry experience, Hunter Consulting experts work closely with senior leadership to chart a course for groundbreaking organizational development. We are actively involved in every step of the implementation of your laboratory business' customized strategy and work meticulously to ensure a seamless transition to successful internal continuance. Hunter Consulting focuses upon designing and delivering long-term strategic solutions with quantifiable and significant returns on investment.
OUR PRINCIPALS
The principals of our firm are seasoned laboratory professionals who focus primarily upon working closely with the senior leadership of our client organizations. Our principals have worked with some of the country's most respected leaders in the laboratory industry and have served in positions of senior management of premier healthcare organizations, including large healthcare systems, managed care organizations, and commercial laboratories. This experience translates into sound, innovative, objective advice to create impactful and measurable solutions for our clients.
KEVIN HUNTER
Prior to forming his own consultancy, Kevin Hunter was a director with Navigant Consulting, Inc., for seven years, specializing in financial and operational consulting in the healthcare industry. A veteran laboratory professional, Mr. Hunter has directed numerous laboratory consulting engagements, including assessments, implementations, integrations, consolidations (core laboratory development), outreach assistance, interim management, accounting, pricing and compensation analysis, laboratory information system analysis, and billing and compliance. In over twenty years in the healthcare industry, he has held a number of senior management positions with commercial and hospital-based laboratories that entailed total profit and loss responsibility, along with management responsibilities of all areas of the laboratories. As a consultant, Mr. Hunter has lead the restructuring and turnaround of laboratories for some of the largest and most prestigious healthcare systems in the country.
LARRY SMALL, MS, MT(ASCP)
Larry Small is an experienced business professional with over 35 years of leadership and technical experience in the healthcare industry. Mr. Small has a diverse background and extensive experience in outreach business development, operations and revenue cycle improvement, CPT coding, regulatory compliance, and billing financial management for independent and hospital-based clinical laboratories, pathology groups, and medical billing companies.
Prior to starting his first consultancy, L Small Associates, LLC, Mr. Small served as the Director of Compliance and Billing Financial Consulting Services for Chi Laboratory Systems, Inc. (formerly Park City Solutions), and as Corporate Director of Compliance for Quest Diagnostics, Inc., where he was responsible for coordinating the implementation of an effective compliance program throughout the organization. Additionally, Mr. Small has held corporate leadership positions in Total Quality Management (TQM), billing accounts receivable, client services, laboratory operations, and field operations.
Mr. Small is a frequent national conference speaker, including the American Pathology Foundation, Association of College & University Auditors, Washington G2 Lab Institute, Healthcare Financial Management Association, and Healthcare Auditor Network. Topics have included clinical laboratory and anatomic pathology compliance, correct coding and billing and other management related areas. Mr. Small is certified by the College of American Pathologists as an MT(ASCP), and holds a MS degree from Iowa State University.
EMMETT KANE, MT(ASCP), MPH
Emmett Kane has over twenty-five years of senior management level experience ranging from hospital Chief Laboratory Supervisor to corporate Senior Vice President with a leading national commercial laboratory system. Prior to consulting, Mr. Kane held the position of President/General Manager of a large independent laboratory organization. In that role, he was responsible for all aspects of running a $200 million for-profit laboratory operation including two full-service laboratories, processing fifteen million tests per year with two thousand employees and 230 Patient Service Centers. Also reporting to him were the organization's sales and marketing, information technology, pathology, billing, courier, and compliance and quality assurance divisions.
As President/General Manager, Mr. Kane has led numerous high profile activities such as acquisitions, consolidations, client conversions, client computerization efforts, organizational downsizing, major facility closings, facility planning, multi-million dollar cost reductions, strategic planning, compliance programs, corporate integrity agreement implementation, revenue enhancement, leadership and accountability training, and numerous service excellence initiatives.
Mr. Kane also had a lead role in implementing an unprecedented Federal Trade Commission-ordered divestiture of employees, assets, and clients to a competitor while simultaneously consolidating two previously competing organizations in a post-acquisition setting.
Mr. Kane earned his undergraduate degree from Northern Michigan University and his Master of Public Health degree from the University of Michigan. He spent two semesters in small workshops with management expert Peter Drucker while pursuing an Advanced Executive MBA at Claremont Graduate School.
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