Our People

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 Specialize 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
E-mail	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
E-mail	Stan is a Principal and co-founded Alta Partners, LLC in 2000. Prior to founding Alta Partners, Stan served as Director of Finance for the Fairview Medical Group, a 120 physician multi-specialty practice on Cleveland's west side. Stan has dedicated his career to evaluating physician practices and working with physicians and hospital administrative management to maximize and improve practice results. In addition to performing physician billing services to over 250 providers in the state of Ohio, Stan is active in consulting activities that include over 400 practice assessments and/or fair market valuations, design and implementation of production-based physician compensation plans, and direct management of approximately a dozen practices across the state. Stan is a certified public accountant and completed his BBA and MBA degrees at Cleveland State University. He is a member of Healthcare Executives of Northeast Ohio (HEANO) and was chapter President from 2003-05. Stan has spoken on the topics of physician compensation, integrated practice development, and practice valuation at the national conferences for the Medical Group Managers Associations (MGMA), the Healthcare Financial Managers Association (HFMA) and the American College of Healthcare Executives, (ACHE).
Annie Hanzel, Director Of Operations
E-mail	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.
Jeffrey P Kovacs, CPA - Consultant
E-mail	Jeff is a Consultant with Alta Partners, LLC and has been associated with the organization since 2000, when Alta was founded. Jeff's primary responsibilities are assisting clients in assessing their physician practice operations and financial results in order to identify areas for improvement. Jeff developed Alta Partners's physician practice benchmarking database which allows us to quickly compare practice results against similar practices' across the state and against industry averages. Jeff is also regularly engaged to assist in developing physician practice budgets for clients, forecasting operating results for both established and start-up practices. Jeff is a certified public accountant and received his BA degree from Baldwin Wallace College, where he is currently working towards attaining his master's degree in health care management.
Lynn Bolin, Director Of EHR
E-mail	Lynn began her career in healthcare, as a part time medical receptionist in a family practice in Oberlin. Over the years, Lynn continued to advance in position and experience by performing such roles as medical assistant, billing and coding, office coordinator and physician practice manager. Before joining Alta Partners, Lynn, was responsible for 24 medical providers in 11 physician practices with Community Health Partners in Lorain. Lynn’s transition from medical receptionist to physician practice manager, combined with her 15 years of experience with physicians, practice professionals and two EHR implementation projects gives her a unique insight into the needs and challenges facing today’s physicians and the future for medical practices. As part of her practice management experience, Lynn has become well versed in helping practices improve physician and staff productivity, patient scheduling, and patient flow activities.As mentioned above, Lynn has had the opportunity to roll out not one, but two different EHR software platforms over the past four years (Next Gen and EPIC) for physician practices she has managed.