Leadership

Michael’s goal is to continually earn the right to help make business easier and more profitable for doctors and medical professionals by sharing the value of modern, efficient, medical billing. His focus is on innovation and customer service, providing personalized Medical Business Solutions to doctors and hospitals that want to save money and improve the bottom line.

He comes to Fellow Health Partners with more than 15 years of business consulting experience at companies such as Price Waterhouse Coopers and Loughlin Management Partners + Co, where he was a Director. His operational working experience includes retail, manufacturing and healthcare companies that generate annual revenues of between $50 million and $2 billion+.

Michael holds a BA in Accounting and an MBA with a specialization in Accounting, Finance and Taxation.

Ali is the Chief Systems Architect for Fellow Health Partners, a rapidly growing New York-based Medical Solutions company. In this role, he is responsible for three critical aspects of the company’s operations: Managing the Fellow Health Partners’ technology development team who work together to design Fellow Health Partners’ proprietary software; Managing the implementation and integration of all necessary software and hardware to optimize the client experience; and Supporting and updating all necessary technology for clients and Fellow Health Partners.

Ali holds a BA in Computer Science as well as extensive qualifications in a wide range of Medical Billing software including, among others – SequelMed, NextGen, Allscripts, drchrono and eCW – allowing Fellow Health Partners to seamlessly integrate its software with almost any system that a practice or facility might currently use.

Emma has been working in medical billing since 2006, working her way through almost every function in a medical billing company from payment and charge posting to coding compliance.

An expert in multiple billing systems ranging from Epic and eClinical to All Meds and SequelMed, she currently leads the Onboarding team at Fellow Health Partners.

She is both a CPC (Certified Professional Coder) and an AN-CPC (Certified Professional Coder with specialty in Anesthetics).

With a strong focus on customer service, she describes her role as “acting as an extension of the medical office, working to bring streamlining and efficiencies to billing processes while being highly responsive to any client request.”

Alexandra joined Fellow Health Partners with 10 years of experience in medical billing and denial management for large hospital groups. Her goal is to help clients maximize reimbursements from insurance companies. She uses data produced by medical coders and her years of experience to achieve this. Her knowledge and experience in the industry has increased monthly revenue for every account she has been privileged to work with.

Her experience includes executing all operational aspects of medical billing and accounts receivables, employee training and client relations, benchmarking key performance indicators, and complying with all relevant government regulations.

Alexandra has a Medical Assistant degree.

Philippe Denichaud is the lead on developing human capital at Fellow Health Partners. For over 35 years, he has helped grow businesses valued all the way from $1 million to over $1 billion, impacting organizations from the President and CEO down to people on the shop floor. A key to his success is a rigorous focus on using adult learning theory and causal-based training to help the learning “stick”, a critical component for Fellow Health Partners as it rapidly scales. His educational background is Commerce, Finance and Industrial Psychology.

John Parikhal is a key component in the Marketing, Branding, and Sales at Fellow Health Partners. Prior to joining Breakthrough Management, he helped clients collectively gain over $2 billion in value by effectively using advanced market research, marketing, creative content, and strategy. He holds a BA in Economics and Business, an MA in Media and English and focused his PhD studies on how language and form shape perception.

Fran’s determined to spread the word about Fellow Health Partners so that more doctors, practice managers and hospitals are aware of what makes the company “meaningfully different”.

As an experienced marketing executive who also runs her own agency, Fran is responsible for the company’s overall marketing and branding initiatives in all media spaces. She ensures that Fellow Health Partners’ message is distributed across channels and to targeted audiences in order to meet sales objectives. When asked about what makes Fellow Health Partners “different”, she starts with empathy – the way that everyone in the company puts themselves in their customer’s shoes first, so they can do a better job of understanding the customer’s world. As a result, Fellow Health Partners focuses on personalization, customer service, and rigorous training for staff and management with the goal of making things easier and less stressful for the customers. Fran says that empathy led them to the company’s motto, “Medicine is complicated. Billing shouldn’t be.”

Fran holds a BS in Marketing and Management.

Amy’s focus is to help ensure that our clients are supported and served at the highest level of professionalism while providing personalized Medical Business Solutions to doctors and hospitals that want to save money and improve the bottom line.

She describes her role as “acting as a resource for medical practices and providers, working to enhance billing processes while being highly responsive to any client request.”

In order to maximize Fellow Health Partners’ customer service and to leverage efficient internal and external communication, Amy is also focused on working with the team to continually enhance their strong “people skills.”

Jennifer is the Lead Coder and Head of Compliance at Fellow Health Partners, both vital roles in medical billing. Coding directly affects revenue for both providers and physicians, depending on how they “code” their services. With over 144,000 billing codes now in use, her experience and focus are invaluable in helping to ensure that doctors are paid everything they’ve earned for their work. Compliance focuses on making sure that everyone – from our employees to the doctors, facilities, and administrators that we serve – comply with all mandated rules and regulations regarding billing, privacy, and processes.

She currently oversees a growing team of Fellow Health Partners’ coders and continues to help educate doctors about how to most effectively apply current coding procedures. To stay at the peak of her skills, she continues to receive ongoing training at Fellow Health Partners’ “Knowledge College”.

Jennifer’s extensive experience in coding is supported by her Certifications which include both Professional Coding Instructor (CPC-I) and Radiation Oncology Certified Coder. She is also a member of AAPC (The American Association of Professional Coders).

Patricia is the Executive Assistant at Fellow Health Partners, a critical support role to the smooth functioning of the Leadership team.

Reporting to CEO, Michael N. Brown, she brings decades of C-level experience grounded in fields as diverse as Investment Banking, Environmental Engineering, and Corporate Philanthropy.

Acting as a liaison between executives, her role contributes significantly to the efficiency and effectives of a busy, growing office. In addition to executive assistance, it includes data, financial, administrative, and professional development responsibilities. And, like everyone at Fellow Health Partners, she continues to receive ongoing training at Fellow Health Partners’ “Knowledge College” in order to stay at the peak of her skills.

Drawing on more than 40 years’ experience as a financial executive, Steve helps guide financials for the company.  His medical experience includes key positions at Saint Michael’s Medical Center in Newark, NJ, The Mount Sinai Healthcare System and The Presbyterian Hospital (New York City and Lawrence Hospital in Bronxville, NY).  His experience in managing all aspects of financial operations and strategic planning includes Revenue Enhancement programs, Accounts Receivable reduction programs, and System Conversion efforts. A Certified Public Accountant in New York State, he has also audited financial records for a public accounting firm as well as a Medicare Intermediary.