Our People
Experienced, Helpful, Dedicated To Your Business
  • Most employees have prior private medical office experience
  • A/R follow-up personnel are dedicated to specific physician practice accounts as well as employees that are dedicated to Workers Comp, Medicare, and Medicaid follow-up efforts
Our Employees Are Specialized In The Details Of:
  • Credentialing
  • Physician coding
  • Misys charge entry and front office training
  • Account collections
  • Customer service
  • Payment posting
  • Report writing via Cognos, Monarch, Excel & Access

 
Alta Partners Management Team
Daniel T. Kasinec, FACMPE, Principal


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 Dan has over twenty-five (25) years of health care experience focused mainly in physician practice management and development.  Other experience includes acquisition and development work for a $1.7 billion publicly traded hospital management company.  He has worked for private practice and health system affiliated physician groups, both for-profit and non-profit, as well as primary care and multi-specialty groups.  Two groups were start-up practices that required practice development and operations, physician recruitment, compensation and benefit plan development, office development, mergers and acquisitions, and billing office management.  His tenure with physician practices includes groups ranging in size from twenty (20) to ninety (90) physicians and serving in the positions of Regional Practice Director, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Executive Officer, and President.

Prior to founding Alta Partners with Stan Kasmarcak, Dan was Chief Operating Officer of the Fairview Medical Group (FMG) in Cleveland, Ohio, responsible for the overall management of the group and reporting to FMG's physician President.  He has conducted numerous public speaking events to undergraduates, health care professionals and the public.  Dan authored an article on billing office productivity for the Medical Group Management Association’s “MGMA Connexion” journal.  Dan completed his BS degree in Biological Health (Health Planning and Administration) from the Pennsylvania State University and a MPH degree from the University of Pittsburgh.  He is a member of the Medical Group Management Association and is a Fellow in the American College of Medical Practice Executives.  He has been a member of MGMA/ACMPE’s Professional Papers Committee for the past six years and is the committee Chair for 2007-08.
 
Stanley J. Kasmarcak, CPA, Principal


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 Stan’s career path has closely followed the twists that healthcare has taken over the past 20 years and began by providing auditing and financial support services with Coopers & Lybrand, in Cleveland, as an Audit Senior. One of his first clients provided mobile MRI, CT and nuclear medicine services and for several years joined the organization and served as their Controller.

Stan then worked with a local healthcare consulting firm, riding a wave of demand by hospitals for fair market valuations of physician practices during the furious practice acquisition period from 1994-1998. During that time, Stan prepared fair market valuations for over 300 physician practices and performed other consulting assignments including physician compensation plan development, billing revenue management and enhancement engagements, financial pro-forma modeling, and financial due-diligence assignments.

Stan’s last assignment before founding Alta Partners, was to serve as Director of Finance for the Fairview Medical Group (FMG), a 100+ multi-specialty practice of physicians employed by the Fairview Health System. Stan’s primary efforts were to improve the billing operations of the FMG, re-vamp the physician compensation program then in place, and evaluate areas where expenses could be better managed. When the Fairview Health System decided to no longer employ primary care physicians, Stan and Dan saw an opportunity and began to provide billing services independently as “Alta Partners”.

Stan completed his undergraduate and graduate studies at Cleveland State University (CSU) and has been a member of CSU’s adjunct faculty, teaching healthcare finance to MBA students. He is also an active member with several area healthcare associations and was the 2003-05 President of Healthcare Executives of Northeast Ohio (HEANO), the local chapter affiliate of the American College of Healthcare Executives, (ACHE). Over the years, Stan has spoken on the topics of physician compensation, ,physician benchmarking and practice valuation at the national conferences for the Medical Group Managers Associations (MGMA), the Healthcare Financial Managers Association (HFMA) and the ACHE.
Annie Hanzel, Director Of Operations


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 Annie has over fifteen years experience spanning physician billing and medical office management. Before Alta Partners, Annie held positions of Physician Billing Manager, System Administrator, and Medical Office Manager for both the Fairview Medical Group and Fairview West OB/GYN Associates, a seven-physician, private practice. Primary responsibilities have included monitoring and controlling electronic media claims and remittances, reviewing information and instructions received from third party payers and identifying changes which must be made to systems, monitoring unit performance, ensuring accuracy of billing output and cash posting, and assisting in arriving at proper revenue and HCPCS coding for charges. Annie has also had responsibility for private practices in which she was responsible for the supervision of daily operations, staffing and human resources, superbill processing including ICD-9 and CPT coding, purchasing and materials management, Medical records management, communication systems, facilities and equipment management, regulatory compliance and new practice start-up. Annie currently manages a staff of over twenty-five (25) employees for Alta Partners.