Jeff is a member of the Healthcare Practice and the firm’s CHC practice leader. He manages audit and cost report preparation services and provides consulting services in the areas of Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, federal grant reporting, and operational issues. Jeff also serves as a firmwide resource regarding federal audit guidelines and their application to CHCs.
His expertise is routinely called upon by the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) and many state primary care associations for financial analysis of issues important to CHCs. He serves as a resource to several state primary care associations on their Medicaid prospective payment system (PPS) including the cost report submission and settlement process and the process for updating PPS rates. He also provides training to individual health center management teams and boards of directors on financial management issues.
Jeff, an avid public speaker, frequently presents on CHC topics for the NACHC and several state primary care associations. He also conducts presentations for private and governmental organizations seeking to develop the CHC model for their communities. Jeff has co-authored articles on CHC accounting as well as operational and reimbursement topics for national as well as Forvis Mazars publications.
He is a member of the American Institute of CPAs and Missouri Society of CPAs.
Jeff is a 1994 graduate of Missouri State University, Springfield, with a B.S. degree in accounting.