Ann Marie DaSilva
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Healthcare industry professional with extensive provider relations, client relations, account management experience.
Relationship manager with natural collaborative style, specialized at managing diverse healthcare clients and
relationships. Expert communicator, highly-skilled at driving client satisfaction, retention and growing revenue. Performance
driven, versatile. Passionate about improving the delivery of healthcare.
Specialties:
• Client Relationship Management • Healthcare Account Management • Healthcare EDI Technology & Services
• Payer/Provider/Patient Relations • Contract Negotiation & Management • Vendor/Channel Partner Management
• Client Advocacy • Managed Health Care & Health Insurance • Client Business Development
Healthfirst, New York, NY
Contractor, Ancillary Services 2010-present
Recruit, negotiate and contract ancillary providers for managed Medicaid and Medicare health plan networks.
• Develop and implement provider network recruitment outreach strategies. Manage provider negotiation and
contracting. Support application review, credentialing, and network participation processes.
• Manage and build positive relationships with ancillary providers and practice managers. Provide policy procedure
education training. Address provider inquiries and issues: claims submission, product knowledge, program
participation, contract requirements, member/patient concerns.
• Monitor provider network quality and performance through office site visits, report generation, gap analysis,
healthcare surveys.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Emdeon, Nashville, TN 1992-2010
Sr. Client Account Manager, Payer Services
National Account Manager, Client Executive, Regional Account Manager, Managed Care Business Analyst, Payer Technical Analyst
Managed, strengthened and grew the day to day client relationship with national and regional commercial payers, group
health plans, specialty healthcare organizations, PPOs and TPAs. Effectively assisted clients in increasing eHealthcare
provider services, reduce healthcare administrative costs and improve the healthcare provider-patient encounter.
• Fostered mutual trust partnerships with clients. Grew quality client relationships and client retention levels
consistently by understanding clients’ professional and institutional provider eHealth business growth objectives.
• Acted as client ambassador, establishing a single point of accountability for clients.
• Marketed and expanded clients’ utilization of eHealth services through strategic planning, resulted in new
business development opportunities and increased revenue.
• Advocated for client on service delivery, contract compliance, products, marketing strategies, fostering positive
client partnerships and addressing improvement in eHealth services.
• Trained and educated Client Service, Implementation, Channel Partner and Growth Services as subject matter
expert on account services, marketing programs, provider-patient eHealth products; promoting account growth
and advancing client relationship.
• Increased relationship account ratings on client surveys consistently from Average to Excellent on client
expectation, quality of client interaction and problem resolution metrics.
• Managed team of client liaisons delivering account management services to payers. S killfully motivated team to
enhance client relationships and increase revenue. Consistently exceeded performance goals.
• Implemented clients’ eHealth marketing programs and outreach initiatives to accelerate eHealth services growth.
Resulted in sponsored growth program participation, 30% volume increase in services and improved provider
education.
• High-level escalation for client concerns on services, billing reimbursement, implementation, audit and compliance
reporting, ensuring successful resolution outcomes were attained and client satisfaction achieved.
• Facilitated client eHealth ANSI EDI project implementations providing ongoing project management functions,
collaborated with key client business and technical teams, attained increased product growth and utilization.
• Improved the delivery of eHealth and communication between health plans, vendors, providers and patients, by
successfully supporting the deployment of eHealth services: claims, encounters, eligibility, referrals, claims status,
eligibility rosters, COB, ERAs and EFTs.
EDUCATION & Training St. Louis University, St Louis, MO •
• HIPAA Standard Transactions and Code Sets
Business Relationship Management • CRM & Facilitator Training