Speakers Bureau

Recondo team members bring knowledge, expertise, and experience to any professional event. Our speakers thoroughly cover topics that are relevant to current healthcare trends, technology, processes, and best practices.

Topics include:

Best Practices:
Point Of Service (POS) Collections

  • Emerging Trends (Statistics, Barriers, Compliance, HIPAA, EMTALA)
  • Success factors and enablers
  • Collecting best practices (examples and dialogue)
  • Readiness, opportunities, and culture

Best Practices:
Obtaining Authorizations/Preventing Denials

  • Increasing effectiveness of patient management, billing and collections
  • Shifting revenue cycle efforts from back end to front end
  • Exception based management
  • Optimization of charity care: building or improving the process

Emerging Trends:
Straight-Through Processing and Payments

  • Moving processes from the back office to the front
  • Integrating data across the hospital
  • Using technology to eliminate data entry and manual intervention
  • Conforming quickly to the new EDI rules mandated by legislation

Best Practices:
Working with Payers

  • Overcoming incomplete payer data
  • Eliminating manual intervention, phone calls, and redundant effort
  • Assessing the Impact of healthcare reform
  • Using technology to improve efficiency and reduce costs

Our Speakers

Rick Adam

Rick Adam is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Recondo Technology. He founded the company in 2007 with the goal of developing software and services designed to bring efficiencies and cost savings to the handling of healthcare payments, a process that currently costs the medical industry a staggering $425 billion in annual expense.

Mr. Adam also founded New Era of Networks (NEON). NEON products were leaders in electronic data interchange (EDI) and application integration for healthcare, financial services, and manufacturing/distribution. At Baxter Healthcare Corp., Mr. Adam founded and led the Travenol Healthcare Information Systems (also called IBAX) which automated several hundred hospitals. The software applications automated and integrated admitting, patient accounting, pharmacy, and material management. Mr. Adam also has extensive experience in the financial services industry where he led efforts to streamline administrative costs. Mr. Adam holds a BS degree from the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York. As a captain in the U.S. Air Force, Mr. Adam served as launch crew officer in charge of the Real Time Computer Center (RTCC) at Kennedy Space Center for Apollo Missions 8 through 14. He has served on the Colorado Governor's Commission on Science and Technology. Mr. Adam is a Director of Life Technologies, a leading company in life and genetic sciences.

Victor Marcinik

Victor Marcinik joined Recondo Technology as Vice President, Product Marketing after 17 years with HCA Healthcare. His contributions within HCA were lead roles in complete revenue cycle operations. Most recently, Mr. Marcinik was Chief Operating Officer for HCA Denver's Revenue Cycle Operations, which encompassed seven acute care facilities. Mr. Marcinik received degrees in accounting and finance from the University of Central Florida.

Brandon Childs

Brandon Childs serves as Vice President of Revenue Cycle Services and has responsibility for many premier Recondo accounts. He has a proven track record of understanding the entire revenue cycle and all its associated components, workflow, human factors, and technology. During 14 years with Accenture, Brandon managed many consulting projects across both payers and providers, including managed care organizations, hospitals, physician clinics, IPAs, and state Medicaid organizations. He possesses extensive experience in developing and implementing advanced solutions to meet complex needs, and focuses on helping customers achieve maximum value through implementations. While at Accenture, he worked with 10 of the 12 largest commercial payer organizations and he conducted many revenue cycle review studies. Prior to that, he worked at Integrated Health Systems specializing in rapid implementations of hospital information systems at small/medium-sized hospitals. Brandon holds a BS degree in Business Administration and Finance from the University of Northern Colorado.

Bill Bollinger

Bill Bollinger serves as Regional Director for Recondo Technology. Prior to joining Recondo, Bill worked for McKesson Corporation as a Project Manager for Practice Management and Electronic Medical Record software. He has also worked for Craneware and Per Se Technologies, and is a recognized domain expert on the hospital revenue cycle, especially workflow, patient eligibility, POS collections, and electronic medical records. Bill holds a BA degree from the New York Institute of Technology.

Nathan Hancock

Nathan Hancock is a Recondo Regional Vice President, and is deeply experienced in hospital revenue cycle operations, coding and reimbursement, and the business office. Prior to joining Recondo, he worked for 3M, focusing on Medical Necessity and Compliance, along with Coding and Reimbursement solutions. He has developed business relationships throughout the HIT industry. During his tenure with 3M, he made numerous presentations at high levels across the United States. Additionally, Nathan has developed working relationships with healthcare business partners, including Cerner, Epic, Allscripts, Meditech, Navicure, QuadraMed, HMS, HealthPort, and others. Prior to his tenure with 3M, he spent eight years with Medical Technologies, a medical instrumentation and software company, working with hospitals and physician clinics throughout the Midwest. He has been a featured speaker at numerous HFMA, NAHAM, and Hospital Association chapters throughout the country. He holds a BS degree from Moorhead State University in Moorhead, Minnesota.

Reid Mellott

Reid Mellott is Chief Sales Officer. Prior to joining Recondo, Reid was Regional Manager of Sales for Craneware, consistently performing at or near the top of the Craneware sales force delivering both gross revenue and new sales. He also worked as Senior Medical Systems Sales Consultant for Bradford-Scott Data Corporation, selling products and services into to large-scale clinics, hospitals, and management service organizations. Reid holds a BS in Management from Purdue University.

Mike Mulcahy

Mike Mulcahy serves as Recondo Vice President, Payer Relations. He previously was the Market Head for Aetna in Colorado, providing network management services for a 6000+ physician, hospital, and ancillary provider network for a full spectrum of Aetna managed healthcare products. Prior to Aetna, he was Director of Operations for Prudential Healthcare, managing multi-state programs for 125,000-member health plan. As Government Products Contract Manager for United Healthcare, he was responsible for all provider contracting activities for start-up Medicare and Medicaid products. Mike holds a Master of Health Administration degree and an MBA from Georgia State University. He completed a Fellowship in Healthcare Policy from the Bighorn Center for Public Policy in 2005, and served as a Captain in the United States Marine Corps.

Jason Thomas

Jason Thomas is Vice President, Strategic Accounts. Prior to joining Recondo, Jason was Regional Vice President of Sales for Craneware, managing 28 western states. During his tenure at Craneware, his region delivered a significant percentage of annual revenue, leading to a successful Initial Public Offering. He also worked for BMC Software, where he consistently achieved quota and made Sales Club. Jason holds a BBA in Finance from Stephen F. Austin State University.