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Michele Napier - President
Phone: 513-981-6633
email: mnapier@health-partners.org
Michele Tynes Napier is the Divisional Vice President of Revenue Cycle for Mercy Health Partners. She oversees and leads all of the revenue cycle functions for the Central Division. A graduate
of Florida International University (BBA) and University of Miami (MBA), Michele has worked in the health care industry for over 20 years including hospital and health plan operations. Before joining MHP,
Michele worked as the Corporate Vice President – Revenue for the Health Alliance where she oversaw Payor Relations and Revenue Cycle. Prior to that, she was the Senior Vice President of Delivery Systems
& Payor Relations for St Vincent Catholic Medical Centers in New York. In that capacity, she served as President of and led a successful turnaround of US Family Health Plan, a government HMO serving
members from Connecticut to Pennsylvania. She has experience in multiple markets in the southeast and northeast regions of the U.S. and Puerto Rico where she oversaw regional networks for Humana and
Independence Blue Cross. Her first experience in health care finance and management was physician practice management. Specifically, Michele worked for a practice management organization and was
responsible for overseeing the operations, leading the contracting relationships with payors, vendors, and staff, business/real estate development, strategic planning and financial oversight.
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Tony Helton - President-Elect
Phone: 513-636-4698
email: tony.helton@cchmc.org
Tony Helton has worked at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital for 20 years. During his tenure at Children’s, he has held several
positions within the Revenue Cycle. He is currently the Executive Director of Hospital Billing Operations.
Mr. Helton received his Bachelor’s degree from Northern Kentucky University in Management and Organizational Studies and has completed the Executive Leadership Program at the University
of Notre Dame. He served as the Chair of the Patient Account Managers Committee for the Greater Cincinnati Health Council (2007 – 2008) and has served on the Strategic Planning
Committee for the Ohio Children’s Hospital Association and the ABC Committee of the OHA. He has been a member of HFMA since 1995. |
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Shawn Kent - Vice-President
Phone: 513-981-6077
email: sakent@health=partners.org
Shawn Kent is the Regional Director of Patient Financial Services at
Mercy Health Partners (MHP).
Mercy Health Partners is part of Catholic Healthcare Partners (CHP), and CHP is one of the largest not-for-profit health
systems in the United States and the largest in Ohio.
Mr. Kent was recruited as a member of the Revenue Cycle Management Team at Mercy to integrate revenue enhancement and
protection strategies, process improvement, and innovation into their Revenue Cycle Operations (RCO).
During his career, Mr. Kent has assumed various roles within Revenue Cycle Operations, and during this time led multiple
projects which were focused on optimizing revenue through RCO design/redesign.
Mr. Kent received both his Bachelors Degree, and Masters of Health Services Administration (MHSA) from Xavier University
in Cincinnati.
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Carol Tenenholtz - Secretary
Phone: 513-520-9879
email: cstenenholtz@fuse.net
Carol Tenenholtz owns and manages Carol Tenenholtz, Inc., a
healthcare financial consulting firm. Carol Tenenholtz, Inc., founded six years ago, provides financial consulting
services including contract compliance, revenue enhancement, financial pro formas and budgeting tools. Her clients are
community hospitals and academic medical centers including their related physician group practices.
Prior to forming Carol Tenenholtz, Inc. she worked in the healthcare practices of the Chicago and Cincinnati offices of
Arthur Andersen for 16 years. Carol has a BS in Accounting from Indiana University and is a CPA. She was the Indiana
CPA examination gold-medal winner. She has been a member of HFMA since 1991. Currently, Carol serves as the Secretary of
the Southwestern Ohio Chapter. Carol has served on the HFMA, education committee,
membership committee, was the co-chairperson of the ProAction! Committee and received the Follmer Bronze Award.
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Charity Fannin - Treasurer
Phone: 513-585-9835
email: charity.fannin@healthall.com
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Gayla Harvey - Past-President
Phone: 513-585-8406
email: harveygd@healthall.com
Gayla is Corporate Vice President, Financial Services and Payor Relations
for the Health Alliance. She is reponsible for accounting, financial reporting, budgeting, reimbursement, Sarbanes-Oxley
compliance and payor relations/managed care contracting for all Health Alliance hospitals, Alliance Primary Care physicians
and affiliated joint ventures.
Gayla is a native of Ashland, KY and has worked in healthcare finance and operations since graduating from Eastern Kentucky
University in 1982 with a degree in Accounting. Her work has covered both small and metropolitan-size markets, including
Philadephia, PA. Over the course of her career she has worked for both providers and payers including UnitedHealthcare
and Humana. She lives in Northern Kentucky with her two teenage sons.
Gayla was Preseident for the 2009-2010 Chapter year. |
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