Lonnie Hirsch

Founder and CEO

The Forefront team is made up of highly experienced pros in the fields of healthcare marketing, sales, business development and other profitable growth categories.

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Lonnie has written hundreds of articles on a range of topics related to the business of healthcare. He has also spoken at hundreds of healthcare conferences and events.

George Mayzell

MD, MBA, FACHE

Dr. Mayzell joined Adventist Midwest Health in January 2013, after serving as CEO of Health Choice (a PHO and CIN) and Senior Vice President of Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare in Memphis, Tenn.

He previously served as senior medical director of managed care for University of Florida and Shands Hospital. He spent more than 10 years with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida, working as regional medical director for care and quality and corporate managing medical director for pharmacy and care. Additionally, he has more than 10 years of practice experience.

Dr. Mayzell is a board certified internist and geriatrician. He received his medical degree from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and his MBA from Jacksonville University.
Dr. Mayzell has co-authored several books including “Leveraging Lean in Healthcare” and “Physician Alignment, as well as a recent book on Population Health.

Mia Cuddihy

MD, MPH, FACP

Mia has a been medical educator throughout her career, teaching medical students and residents while in academia and building educational programs for nurses while at Optum. Her enthusiasm for Quality led her to drive key initiatives at Optum supporting National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) accreditation and Healthcare Effectiveness Data Information Set (HEDIS) clinical performance for her teams and across Optum Population Health Teams.

Mia remains optimistic about medicine and her goals as a consultant are to help clinicians find a sustainable approach to navigate change and help clinical teams build new models to achieve success in a complex quality regulatory environment. Her understanding of healthcare delivery and management allows her to also provide consultative support in population health management for employer groups to translate their vision of health through benefit design and selecting critical performance guarantees to drive optimal medical spend.

David A. Claud

MD, PhD

Key tactics that Dr. Claud has initiated to improve quality for worksite health clinic providers and that also apply to other healthcare settings include:

– Establishing a clinician onboarding process that includes touchpoints with a multidisciplinary team (medical director, EMR trainer, practice manager) at days 1, 30, 60, and 90 to support new clinicians’ adoption of processes designed to deliver safe, high-quality care;

– Instituting a rigorous shared chart review program;

– Developing a culture of safety through a user-friendly incident reporting process, a multidisciplinary approach to reviewing and responding to incidents, and communication of the results of the review to the person submitting the report;

– Implementation of a population analytics platform that incorporates data from medical claims and EMR data to inform quality improvement initiatives;

– Development of a regional medical director program.

LaVerne Jackson

Ph.D.

Dr. Jackson is active as a consultant in Las Vegas, Nevada working with nonprofit organizations to strengthen their organization’s structure through sound business practices including comprehensive policy and procedure, recruiting and hiring qualified personnel, developing and implementing value-based programs and services, recruiting and training innovative board members with expertise that is responsive to multi-level changes through the development of a strategic plan and designing and implementing organizational leadership and financial management models that promote sustainability.

Dr. Jackson has a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Olivet Nazarene University in Bourbonnais, IL and was a Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Honor Society inductee (1986), a Master of Public Administration with a specialty in Human Resources Management (2005) and a Graduate Certificate in Project Management from City University of Seattle (2006), and a PhD in Human Services with a specialty in Nonprofit Organization Management from Capella University (2011), Minneapolis, MN.

Joe Roy

  • Expertise in population health, member experience, value based care, clinical outcome, HEDIS, FHIR frameworks
  • Expertise in AI, machine learning, data lake, healthcare AI, healthcare data lakes, healthcare blockchain, data privacy, HIPAA
  • Providing advisory services to healthcare payer market, provider market, data management, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
  • Management Consulting for Healthcare Digital Transformation, Data Warehouse Modernization and Data and Analytics Platform Architecture.
  • Leading Scalable Health-IntelliPayer Product Unit for next generation Healthcare Payer Analytics Solutions.
  • Advising thought leaders in defining and executing strategic and transformation of Payer Data.
  • Key areas of focus include Claims Management, Member Management, Provider Collaboration, Healthcare Fraud Analytics and Actuary Modeling.
  • Collaborates with Business Partners to deliver BI solutions.
  • Evolves reporting frameworks with thought leadership and customer-oriented focus.
  • Leverages infrastructure to deliver workplace productivity improvements and business improvement opportunity through operational and management reporting solutions.
  • Delivers and maintains optimized and compliant security models across the enterprise.
  • Management of healthcare business architecture.

Mary Padama

She has partnered with several SNFs to guide them in the conditions of participation and implement systems to manage the new survey process.

Mary has worked in a managed care model and was instrumental in improving hospital throughput, decreasing the hospital patient day rate, narrowing networks, improving quality outcomes, reducing the HEDIS readmission rate, managing post-acute length of stay, and ensuring proper allocation of resources related to patient benefits across the care continuum.

Mary worked as the General Manager in Southern California and partnered with various Hospital partners within the BPCI initiative. While in that role, she was responsible in improving financial performance and quality outcomes in both the Acute Care Hospital and Post Acute Care setting in partnership with hospital, skilled nursing facility, home health, and hospice operators.

Mary has worked with developing a digital platform to reduce the readmission rate in the post-acute care space. Mary has partnered with hospital systems to improve performance and meet regulatory compliance in hospital based SNFs/Transitional Care Units.

Mary currently serves as a consultant focusing on healthcare innovation and strategy to assist her clients in traversing through the ever changing and evolving landscape of the healthcare system. She collaborates to bridge the divide between hospitals and the post acute care providers that manage a patient’s journey through the disease process and levels of care throughout the continuum. Her motto “The Road To Yes” has been instrumental in breaking down barriers to patient centered care by coordinating transitions to the right place at the right time.

Mary graduated from the University of Southern California with a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology and received her Administrator License from the state of California.

Terri Riha

Terri’s excellent relationships with media, elected and public officials, sector analysts – together with her experience in crisis management — have been effective in protecting and enhancing brand and business’ reputations.

As a seasoned executive who has brought many companies into fruition, Terri has experience in researching and interviewing all levels of subject matter for the benefit of enterprise and strategic growth.

Terri’s professional affiliations find her effective in networking, media relations and business partnerships, allowing her to “connect the dots” and get things done expeditiously and within budget. Respected by business decision makers locally, regionally and nationally, Terri was voted into membership in Women at the Top where she served as a board member and past president.

Rick Sayegh

MD, MBA

Rick’s entrepreneurial spirit, medical acumen and track record of results are complemented by a personal value system that transcends all other competencies. Rick define success by contributing to a culture of diversity, investment in human capital and creation of an organizational reputation that is consistent with our brand and image. Customers have a strong need to feel comfortable with a provider of products and services. Rick firmly believes that an organization with a high personal standing results in a workforce that is productive, loyal and customer-focused.

As an executive, Rick lives his values, encouraging his team to share in these values and communicate our standards in a top-down fashion, which results in bottom-up support. The ultimate goal is to create an organization that develops and empowers its employees and provides them with the tools and resources needed to exceed goals and pursue career progression.

Rick Sayegh Competencies include:
  • Goal Setting/KPIs
  • Risk Analysis/Opportunity Development
  • Performance Improvement
  • Cross-Functional Team Facilitation
  • Organizational Diagnoses
  • Cost Savings/Lean Operations
  • Change Management
  • Client Relationship Management
  • Business Growth Strategies
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