Medicare Regulatory University ™

Dave Yoder has over 30 years of experience in healthcare finance and third-party payments from Medicare and Medicaid. He specializes in financial analysis, education, and research of regulatory topics.

Dave has extensive experience with Medicare regulatory topics, including cost report procedure and compliance, graduate medical education, allied health, and organ acquisition costs. He also has experience with third party accounting for complex healthcare organizations, including developing and designing accounting procedures and databases for valuing receivables, evaluating balance sheet accounts and accrued settlements, and calculating contractual allowances.

Dave most recently served as Vice President of Reimbursement for Bon Secours Mercy Health. Prior to that position, he was a consultant with Toyon Associates. He also served as Reimbursement Manager for the Arizona market of Dignity Health (formerly Catholic Healthcare West), where he was primarily responsible for ensuring that the health care system was appropriately reimbursed by government payers. He has worked with three health care systems, one large global accounting firm, two regional consulting firms, and two Medicare Fiscal Intermediaries. He is an active member of the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) and has presented and trained members on numerous health care reimbursement topics.

Jeff Wolf has over 35 years of experience in healthcare reimbursement and regulatory compliance for Medicare and Medicaid. He specializes in operational and financial analysis, education, and research of regulatory topics.

Jeff has extensive experience with Medicare and Medicaid regulatory topics, including cost report preparation, documentation and compliance. Jeff’s experience includes operation issues that affect reimbursement, graduate medical education, organ acquisition, bad debts, and uncompensated care.

Jeff's professional history include the following:

• Software Development for Medicare and Medicaid regulatory issues (Cost Report Prep, WS S-10, DSH, and IME/GME)
• Senior Manager/Director of Reimbursement Consulting services (KPMG, Essential Consulting LLC, BESLER)
• Hospital CFO
• Medicare Auditor for 2 Fiscal Intermediaries (BC of CA, BC of AZ)
• Regulatory Education and Seminars (HFMA, Healthcare Trade Groups, Provider Specific education)

Eleanor Wong has over 25 years of experience in healthcare reimbursement and regulatory compliance for Medicare and Medicaid. She specializes in Medicare and Medicaid regulatory issues, audits, revenue cycle, hospital operation and planning.

Eleanor has extensive experience with Medicare and Medicaid regulatory topics, including cost report preparation, documentation and compliance. Eleanor’s experience includes operation issues that affect reimbursement, graduate medical education, organ acquisition, and bad debts.

Eleanor's professional history include the following:

• Reimbursement Manager at District Hospital for over 9 years
• Sutter Peninsula Region and West Bay Region (5 Hospital Group) Senior Financial Analyst (net patient revenue, cash collection, account receivable evaluation, contractual allowance, supplemental funds, government reports, financial and Uniform Guidance audits)
• Reimbursement Specialist at Stanford University Medical Center (Medicare and Medicaid government reporting)
• Hospital Operations and Financial Planning (healthcare (EPIC) and decision support (Epsi) systems implementation, revenue cycle, budget, labor productivity, department planning and development, price strategy and government reports)
• Medicare Auditor (specialty in district hospital, critical access hospital, allied health, graduate medical education and organ acquisition)