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EAGLES WINGS CONSULTING
is an experienced hands-on firm specializing in healthcare financial strategy and optimization.
We can help you sort it all out and make the right moves for financial health. Our three-step approach puts you on the right path.
1 - Impacts
What is changing and what does it mean to you?
2 - Options
What can you do to address these changes and turn them into opportunities?
3 - Actions
Let Eagles Wings help you choose the right course and plan the implementation by identifying priorities and next steps.
Lisa Stauch Smith, MBA
Lisa is the founder, owner, and president of Eagles Wings Consulting. Lisa has extensive expertise working with senior management teams in healthcare, both from the health insurer and the healthcare provider perspective. She specializes in healthcare financing and business management, with a proven ability to manage diverse insurance products, develop financial strategies and policy guidelines, and direct a team of healthcare professionals towards cost effective and quality-driven care. This is key as the industry moves to Value Based Payment. She is highly experienced in rating and underwriting, data analysis, budgeting, forecasting, provider compensation, financial and operational benchmarking, and all aspects of contracting, including rate negotiations. Lisa also has experience in strategic planning, managed care education, and product development. She has experience working with large city hospitals in Rochester as well as rural hospitals in Chautauqua County and Chemung County.
Historically, Lisa was Senior Manager at The Camden Group working with clients on a national basis and returned to independent consulting through Eagles Wings Consulting in 2012. Before she founded Eagles Wings, Lisa spent six years working for Greater Rochester Independent Practice Association (“GRIPA”). As chief financial officer, she was accountable for all finance and business operations for this $313 million Rochester Top 100 company. Lisa also worked at Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield for over 13 years and was promoted through a succession of progressively more responsible positions, including serving as Manager, Actuarial Services Department for three years. During her 20 years of service at GRIPA and at Excellus BlueCross BlueShield, Lisa negotiated full-risk, partial-risk, and non-risk payment arrangements and contracts between payers and providers. She also designed, developed, and implemented a variety of managed-care benefit products. Lisa currently collaborates with Northstar Network to develop and deploy the Healthcare Business Academy (HBA) Fellowship program since its inception in 2014.
Lisa received her bachelor’s degree from Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York and a master’s in business administration from the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York.