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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Nasreen shares the same vision as the rest of her team. A focus on innovation and customer service to provide enhanced, personalized Medical Business Solutions to doctors and hospitals that want to save money and improve their bottom line.

She holds a BSN in Nursing, which gives her a unique, bird’s-eye and personal perspective of the medical world.

As a medical biller, she’s seen firsthand how billing errors, denials, and all the insurance paperwork can put a real strain on medical practices and hospitals, often resulting in an advantage for the insurance company and a disadvantage for patients and medical professionals.

Nasreen’s multi-disciplinary experience, innate sensitivity and empathy, ideally equip her to support the team at Fellow Health Partners as the company’s Human Resources’ lead.

Erica is the Client Onboarding Manager at Fellow Health Partners, responsible for a smooth transition with new clients, whether medical practices (ranging from a few physicians to “super groups”), surgery centers (large or small), or hospitals.

With each new client, her role is to manage her team to help make “onboarding” as seamless and frictionless as possible by drawing on her decades of experience in systems integration, technology and software implementation, medical billing systems, and end-user training. To stay at the peak of her skills, she continues to receive ongoing training at Fellow Health Partners’ “Knowledge College”.

Her areas of expertise include but are not limited to: Workflow Analysis, Practice Management Software, System Configurations, End-User Training, Process and Workflow Optimization, Health Information Technology, Electronic Health Records (EHR).

Prior to joining Fellow Health Partners, Erica held important positions at Allscripts as well as several larger regional billing companies.

Jennifer is the Lead Coder at Fellow Health Partners, a vital role in medical billing since coding directly affects revenue for both providers and physicians, depending on how they “code” their services – the most important factor in how the insurance companies compensate them. 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.

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 Coder and Radiation Oncology Certified Coder. She is also a member of AAPC (The American Association of Professional Coders).