Stability for your organization and your community
As a rural healthcare organization, you are critical to the health of your community. But staying viable can be challenging in today’s healthcare environment.
Providers need to manage financial health and navigate digital solutions to push patient care forward — all while staying ahead of regulations and federal policies.
Why Wipfli
Wipfli’s nationwide team understands that you face unique challenges demanding customized solutions.
We’ve served over a thousand clients across the U.S., drawing on those successes in working with rural health clinics, critical access hospitals and other providers to build solutions targeting your exact needs.
We can help you achieve greater financial viability with reimbursement services that take a comprehensive look at your revenue cycle, empowering you to make informed reimbursement decisions, minimize outstanding accounts receivable and accelerate cash flow. And we help you implement the compliance framework you need to help ensure that you obtain full payment for services while adhering to regulations.
We can also take your organization further with digital solutions and strategies that help you reduce costs, improve productivity and better protect sensitive patient data.
Discover how our integrated approach can help you identify and take advantage of the latest opportunities to enhance patient access and expand your services.
Healthcare consulting
Wipfli’s healthcare-specific services can help you optimize your operations and financial performance. We offer services that include:
- Reimbursement services
- Revenue cycle management
- Capital and facility planning
- Physician demand planning
- Strategic planning
Audit and assurance
Our industry-experienced audit team understands the specific audit requirements for rural healthcare organizations, helping you get the right audit for your compliance needs.
Outsourcing
Wipfli has decades of experience in supporting healthcare organizations with our outsourced CFO and accounting services. We can add significant financial knowledge to your organization, delivering insights that help you identify opportunities to increase cash flow and optimize your day-to-day financial operations. We also offer vCISO services to help you enhance your IT infrastructure and cybersecurity.
Organizational performance
Wipfli’s strategy and operations services can help you create a more agile organization and better understand how to use your resources effectively. We also provide targeted leadership development that can help improve your organization’s leadership readiness and retention.
Digital
Increase your digital capabilities and get the tools you need to master your productivity and revenue challenges with Wipfli. Our digital team can support your organization’s:
- AI readiness
- Data and analytics
- Cybersecurity
- EHR, ERP and CRM
- Business intelligence solutions
- Cloud computing
Our team
Nicholas E. Smith
Nicholas Smith has over a decade of proven leadership experience with Wipfli's national health care consulting practice. In this role, he has the opportunity to serve a broad array of health care organizations including health systems, integrated delivery systems, county and district hospitals, critical access hospitals, physician specialty groups, behavioral health centers, and health care networks. Nicholas leads consulting engagements with energy, enthusiasm, and an analytical problem-solving approach to effectively respond to the facility, operational, and strategic challenges facing his clients.
Katie Jo Raebel, CPA
Katie Jo Raebel has more than 19 years of experience in audit and accounting services, focused exclusively on health care industry clients. She specializes in assisting freestanding and provider-based clinics to navigate through the rural health clinic (RHC) certification process and is a proven thought leader with vast experience in the RHC arena. Katie Jo helps to calculate RHCs’ Medicare and Medicaid rates, provides education regarding changes in billing because of certification, and consults on all areas specific to RHCs.
Paul M. Traczek, CPA
Paul Traczek is a certified public accountant who provides high-quality service to health care organizations including hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, foundations, and other health-related, not-for-profit organizations. Paul’s primary focus is planning, conducting, and overseeing financial statement audits of health care organizations. In addition, he provides reimbursement and operational assistance, including preparation of Medicare and Medicaid cost reports and optimization of reimbursement, to health care clients of all sizes.
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