Jeff Ewald Joins Plante Moran's Healthcare Team
Jeff Ewald, CPA, has recently joined Plante Moran as a consulting manager in our healthcare industry practice. Jeff will be doing both hospital and senior care and living engagements with a focus on reimbursement. He has a Big Four CPA firm background with more than 20 years of healthcare industry experience serving in various director and CFO roles for hospital and healthcare related companies in the areas of financial operations and reimbursement. Jeff has also earned an MBA with a concentration in finance and a master’s degree in healthcare administration.
Jeff’s areas of expertise include the following:
- Contractual, net position and general reserve analysis
- Tentative and final settlement reviews
- Third-party appeal work
- GME, IME, bad debt and DSH reviews
- Cost report reviews (partial and full)
- Reimbursement impact analysis (e.g., Affordable Care Act)
- Benchmarking, financial operations analysis, feasibility studies
- Capital (ROI) analysis