Home Health Long-Term Care

Steven Warneke, MBA, CPA, CMA, CHFP

**** ***** ****** • Readlyn, Iowa 50668

********@******.*** • 712-***-**** (Personal Cell)

Corporate Accounting

With Comprehensive Experience in

Corporate Finance, Accounting, Tax & Treasury

Strategic Planning & Implementation, including obtaining Financing for Projects

Managed Care Costing & Reimbursement

Cost Reduction & Avoidance

Statistical Analysis & Evaluation

Contract Negotiation & Management of service providers

Technology Systems Selection & Implementation

Medicare Certificate of Need

Team Development & Leadership

Public Health, Geriatric Population & Delivery of Care

Medicare/Medicaid HIPAA Privacy Compliance

Compliance with Rules & Regulations for various Payor Types

Transition & Implementation of Electronic Health Records

Scheduling Logistics to Increase Productivity, while Improving Quality of Care

Oversaw and worked with software developers in development of software for resale in construction, hospital, home health and long-term care industries

National evaluator for Continuing Care Retirement Communities (CCRC) who desired to be accredited through the Continuing Care Accreditation Commission (CCAC, now CARF)

Budget development and implementation of Departmental Variance Reporting, both on a financial and statistical basis

Strategic planning and capital financing and refinancing for new construction and remodeling projects, including forecasting

Worked with cost reimbursement in long-term care, home health and hospital settings. Some of this in transition from cost reimbursement to prospective payment systems

Successfully turned around several Revenue Cycle operations, including financial counseling, billing and collections

Respected, strategic, and operationally-oriented Finance and Administrative individual offering a distinguished career in accounting and finance through many industries. Problem solving expertise to identify problems, recommend alternative solutions to problems, creating meaningful information from data through data-mining of information, strategic planning and obtaining of financing for capital projects, analyzing data for improvement, improving processes and establishing process and procedures through standardization, I have written Policies & Procedures to document the steps, logic, background, and desired goals of organizations. I am always looking for ways to improve processes and outcomes.

Experience

11/2022-4/2024 MILESTONES GROUP, CPA’s, Manchester, IA (Tax accountant for a local public accounting firm, specializing in tax preparation).

3/2021-2/2022 FRIENDS OF FAITH RETIREMENT HOMES dba Friendship Village, Waterloo, IA (Chief Financial Officer for a non-profit, faith based continuing care retirement community (CCRC)).

6/2011-5/2017

8/2017-2/2021 WARNEKE CONSULTING SERVICES, Readlyn, IA (Owner healthcare financial

consulting practice working with long-term care organizations in Medicare).

4/2017-7/2018 TRIPOLI NURSING and REHAB, Tripoli, IA (Administrator of nursing facility and independent living apartments).

1/2009 - 5/2011 UNITED METHODIST HOMES, INC. dba ALDERSGATE VILLAGE, Topeka, KS (Chief Financial Officer for a non-profit, faith based continuing care retirement community (CCRC)).

2004 to 2008 CAREGIVER MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS, INC., Schaumburg, IL (Reimbursement Consultant for a software design and consulting company serving long-term care clientele, specializing in improving Medicare and Medicaid case-mix and reimbursement, clinical documentation and operational efficiencies).

1999 to 2004 BARTELS LUTHERAN RETIREMENT COMMUNITIES, Waverly, IA (Chief Financial Officer, Vice-President of Finance, Compliance Officer and Privacy Officer for a non-profit, faith based, continuing care retirement community (CCRC)).

1997 to 1999 INTRUST/VISITING NURSE SERVICES/VISITING NURSE HEALTH RESOURCES, Des Moines, IA (Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Business Services for a non-profit home health agency providing Medicare and Medicaid certified home health, private duty nursing, infusion services, durable medical equipment (DME), hospice and public health services, with more than 400 employees). During this time period, Medicare certified home health was transitioning from cost reimbursement to a prospective payment reimbursement methodology.

Previous Earlier positions as a Director of Accounting/Finance for a regional health system for more than nine years (Allen Health System, including Allen College of Nursing) from 1985-1994, during which time hospitals were transitioning from cost reimbursement to prospective payment system of reimbursement. while also serving on an advisory board to a national software company for health systems and hospitals (GTE Health Systems); staff accountant for public accounting firm; Controller for an electrical contractor, with union and non-union shops; and adjunct professor at Hamilton Business College, instructing course work in Accounting, Economics, Management and Income Tax.

Responsibilities

All areas of accounting and finance, including general ledger, financial statements, budget and variance reports, accounts payable, revenue cycle (billing, payor contracts and collections) under both cost reimbursement and prospective payment systems, payroll, cash management and investments, negotiation of union contracts, grant writing and reporting, human resources for more than four hundred employees, Information technology and software development, oversight of MDS (Minimum Data Set) preparation and submittal, taxes (payroll, sales and use tax, and federal and state income taxes), data-mining information for management reports, and customer service.

Education

MBA, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA;

BA, Accounting, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA.

Graduate degree, Gerontology, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA

Certifications/Licensure

Certified Public Accountant (CPA)

Certified Management Accountant (CMA)

Certified Healthcare Financial Professional (CHFP)

Series 7 Brokerage certification (non-active)

Professional Organizations

Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) – have previously served as the President and board member of the Waterloo/Cedar Falls Chapter of the Institute of Management Accountants.

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