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Billie Jean Mounts, MBA, FHFMA, CRCR, CSMC
Chief Revenue Officer at Bon Secours Mercy HealthBillie Jean Mounts, FHFMA, CRCR, CSMC, is the Chief Revenue Officer for Bon Secours Mercy Health, a catholic healthcare ministry comprised of 50 hospitals and more than 450 locations serving people in Ohio, Kentucky, Virginia, Maryland, South Carolina and Ireland. In her role, she leads the Revenue Management team which includes managed care, government reimbursement, and revenue cycle. She is responsible for the ministry's U.S. payment, contracting and payer-related business development initiatives and leads payer strategy, contract negotiations and managed care analytics. She works closely with the Ireland-based managed care team to provide analytics reporting and analysis. She also serves as the operations finance liaison to revenue cycle and responsible for managing a fully outsourced revenue cycle operation to Ensemble Health Partners.
Previously, Billie Jean was the Chief Reimbursement Officer for Providence Health & Services. In that role, Billie Jean established the system’s corporate reimbursement function aligning 5 regional reimbursement teams to one team. The function was responsible for monthly net revenue calculations, annual cost reports and reimbursement-related regulatory filings. The function also communicated changes and trends to the finance team, served others by proactively providing timely updates as new regulations were implemented and ensured that all Providence entities were compliant with existing Medicare regulations. Prior to Providence, Billie Jean was Assistant Vice President of Reimbursement for Health Management Associates, Inc. (HMA) of Naples, Fla., and was responsible for the oversight of Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement for the company's 71 hospitals located in 15 states. Over the course of her career with HMA, she served in various positions, including those of Reimbursement Manager, Director of Reimbursement and Director of Reimbursement Financial Reporting.
Billie Jean received her Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Bryant University in Smithfield, R.I. She is a fellow of the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) and an active member of the HFMA Southwest Ohio chapter. She is the recipient of HFMA’s Follmer Bronze, Reeves Silver, Muncie Gold, and Medal of Honor awards. She recently served on the HFMA National Advisory Council for Payment and Reimbursement and is also the immediate past chair of the Ohio Hospital Association Finance Committee. In addition, Billie Jean is a past president of the Florida chapter where she was recognized with the Florence Henry award for excellence in women’s leadership.
Veronica Murphy
Director of Religion Curriculum and Resources at Archdiocese of Cincinnati
Pat O'Donnell
Unabridged TechnologyPat O'Donnell has over 30 years of experience managing technology companies. He currently runs Unabridged Technology as an incubator for startups focused on Justice issues. Portfolio companies are currently addressing cybersecurity, asbestos claims, and AI for legal contracts.
Previously he founded and led Bridgeway Software which he grew to be one of the most successful providers of software systems for in-house legal departments with over 25% of the Fortune 500 using one of their products. In 2015 Bridgeway was acquired in a market consolidation.
Mr. O'Donnell is married to his high school sweetheart, has three amazing grown children, and three (almost perfect) grandsons. As an avid traveler, he truly appreciates a good pair of walking shoes, Google maps, and his trusted baseball hat. As a proud Houston native, Mr. O’Donnell’s favorite food is Texas BBQ. Mr. O’Donnell received a B.A. in mathematics from the University of St. Thomas and a Master of Applied Mathematics from Rice University.