Katz & Associates, Inc. (Katz & Associates) assists health care providers and health care companies improve and grow their business.

Company Background

Katz & Associates assists health care providers:

• Develop plans and implementation strategies to return hospitals and physician practices to profitability and prosperity following periods of financial underperformance.
• Develop strategies for growth and profitability.
• Evaluate and negotiate managed care contracts for physician groups and IPA's.
• Recover funds underpaid by managed care organizations.
• Achieve compliance with governmental and payer regulations concerning documentation, coding and billing.

Katz & Associates assists investors:

• Assess the market for new health care products and businesses.
• Market test health care business concepts, new services or products.
• Evaluate health care organizations' business plans.

Primary Specialties

• Strategic and financial turnaround.
• Operational analysis and implementation
• Business planning, marketing and strategic financial planning.
• Managed care financial management.
• Contract performance analysis, recovery of underpayments and denied claims
• Contract negotiation and renegotiation
• Market analysis and market testing

Our services include:

• Strategic and Financial Turnaround—Assessing financial position, developing strategies for achieving positive cash flow, assist in implementation.
• Business Planning, Marketing and Strategic Positioning—Market studies, operational improvement, and strategic planning.
• Managed Care Consulting—Evaluating, negotiating, and assessing the profitability of managed care contracts. Performance analysis and recovery of underpayments.
• Physician Practice Assistance—Operations assessment including billing and collection practices, turnaround plans and implementation assistance, mergers/acquisitions evaluation, business planning, compliance assistance.
• Compliance Assistance—Perform risk assessment, develop compliance plans, review charts and claims, support providers in regulatory actions.

Clients served include hospitals, integrated health networks, physician practices and medical groups, IPAs, investors, financial institutions, and governmental agencies.