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Company

Ingram & Associates, LLC now part of Ingenix
1720 General George Patton Drive
Brentwood, TN 37027
Phone: 615.778.4500
Fax: 615.778.4510

Management
      Jim Fitzsimmons, Executive Vice President
      Brent Teveit, Executive Vice President
      Charles Frederick, Senior Vice President
      Laurie Berger, Vice President of Operations
      Marion Seaton, Vice President of Sales

Our Approach

Let Ingram & Associates prove it to you

At Ingram we realize that long-term results are nothing more than the cumulative sum of many short-term victories. Often, a small, definable, high-impact project is a great place to start with a new customer. It gives us the opportunity to show you how quickly we can deliver results with virtually no long-term risk to you. Ingram can handle your large and small revenue cycle needs- we've proved it to Ingram healthcare clients in more than 40 states.

Maximum financial results in the least amount of time

Ingram maximizes the effectiveness of our revenue model optimization programs by providing both on-site and remote services depending on your organization's specific needs. Working remotely whenever possible, we take advantage of technology by linking to your host computer application systems via WAN, RAS, VPN or the Web to most efficiently share critical information; avoid travel, office, and equipment costs; and achieve maximum financial results for your hospital. In addition, Ingram's Information Web Portal represents one of the most effective performance measurement and monitoring tools available providing clients with daily access to its business information over a secure server web enabled environment.

High Standards

Ingram sets high standards for our staff and our business, and our objective is to enable your healthcare organization to reach the highest standards of financial performance-every day, every month, and every year. Ingram has a growing staff of more than 125 experienced professionals ready to serve your organization.

Let Ingram help your organization reach the Gold Standard for healthcare revenue model optimization and financial performance

Management

 

Jim Fitzsimmons
Executive Vice President & Co-Founder, Ingenix

Telephone:615.778.4501

Jim Fitzsimmons has more than 25 years of experience in the area of healthcare financial services-the last seven in senior executive roles. Jim co-founded Ingram & Associates with Brent Teveit in 1998 and has been instrumental in growing the business and building a high quality staff that now includes over 200 healthcare financial specialists. Jim's primary responsibilities include overall business direction, sales and direction over Ingram's accounts receivable services operations.

Prior to co-founding Ingram, Jim was the Division President of IPN Network, LLC, a Nashville-based company that managed the business offices for 22 hospitals. Jim was in charge of more than 500 employees and $3 billion in receivables for IPN clients. Before becoming Division President he supervised all field office and client support personnel. Jim also spent several years at First Data Corporation and as a senior executive was responsible for the development and ongoing management of a $4 million division specializing in Accounts Receivable Management. Jim has particular expertise in a wide range of healthcare financial services, collections, customer service, sales, marketing, and mergers & acquisitions.

 

 

Brent Teveit
Executive Vice President & Co-Founder, Ingenix

Telephone:615.778.4506

Brent Teveit has 30 years of healthcare industry experience, the last dozen in executive management roles in four highly successful healthcare services and information businesses in Nashville, TN. With Jim Fitzsimmons, he is a co-founder of Ingram & Associates and is primarily responsible for overall business direction an technology with specific focus on business development of Ingram's Revenue, Recovery & Reimbursement (R3) service offering.

Prior to joining the company, Brent founded and was President & CEO of Criterion Health Strategies, which provided decision support and information warehousing systems to healthcare integrated delivery systems. In 1997 Criterion was purchased by HIE (now part of Quovadx). In addition, a member of the executive team of Inforum-—first as Senior VP of Sales and Marketing and then President, and member of Inforum's Board of Directors—Brent helped make the company one of Nashville's most successful IPO's in the early 1990's. Inforum remains a recognized leader in strategic planning and marketing systems for healthcare. In 1993 Inforum merged with the Medstat Group that was subsequently purchased by Thomson Publishing. Earlier in his career Brent spent a number of years with HBO & Company (now McKesson HBOC) in Atlanta and held a variety of roles, most recently as Vice President, in the company's sales, customer service, and technology areas.

 

 

Charles Frederick
Senior Vice President

Telephone:615.778.4502

As Senior Vice President, Charles is responsible for Managed Care Payer Operations as well as outside vendor services for Ingram. He has eighteen years of healthcare financial services experience, specializing in billing, collection, managed care and business office service processes.

Prior to Ingram, Charles was Vice President of Operations for IPN Network, LLC that managed hospital business offices on a contract basis. At IPN Charles was responsible for all support functions to Shared Service Organizations (SSO's), including: training and process development, regional consulting, development and education of action plans, development of SSO staff, implementation of all systems and procedures and tracking performance. Charles began his healthcare financial career running the Business Offices of Columbia Medical Center of SW Louisiana, Columbia Huntington Beach Medical Center, and Saint John's Hospital & Health Center.

 

 

Laurie Berger
Vice President of Operations

Telephone:615.550.4119

As Vice President of Operations, Laurie is responsible for all aspects of service delivery for government, commercial, managed care and self pay services. Laurie has over fifteen years of experience in the healthcare field with emphasis on business office services , un-insured patient population, charity programs and eligibility services. Prior to joining the company, Laurie served as area manager with MedAssist, a national eligibility & enrollment services company for healthcare.

 

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Marion J. Seaton
Vice President of Sales

Telephone:615.778.3704

As Ingram's Vice President of Sales, Marion is responsible for sales and marketing of Ingram's revenue cycle and business process outsourcing solutions. Managing the national sales team, Marion helps his team develop and position services that solve some of health cares biggest problems.

Prior to joining the company, Marion was the Vice President of Sales & Marketing for Payment America Systems, Inc. While there he developed unique customer-focused solutions orbiting around the liberation of client data, launched trademarked products and advanced Balance Scorecard reporting into the company's client base. Marion has nearly twenty years of experience in health care ranging for sales and management roles with Baxter and Cardinal Health to senior executive positions in heatlh care IT and start-up companies. Before launching his civilian career, Marion was a commissioned Army Officer and served our nation in the 82d Airborne Division and other elite units. He was awarded two Bronze Stars for his service in multiple armed conflicts.

 

 

 

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