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Kraft Healthcare Consulting LLC president Scott Mertie has been appointed to the board of directors for the Nashville Health Care Council for 2020-2021. Scott is one of 15 new members chosen for the board.

Robert A. Frist Jr., chairman and CEO, HealthStream, continues a two-year term as chairman of the board. David Dill, president and CEO, LifePoint Health, will assume the role of vice chair.

The Nashville Health Care Council is a premier association of industry leaders founded in 1995. The council’s mission, according to its website, is to inspire global collaboration to improve health care by serving as a catalyst for leadership and innovation.

The full list of new members appointed to the 2020-2021 council’s board of directors:

• Diana Allen, President and CEO, The SSI Group, LLC
• Jeffrey R. Balser, M.D., President and CEO, Vanderbilt University Medical Center & Dean, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
• Ashby Burks, Shareholder, Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz PC
• Allen Fisher, Managing Director, Global Head of Healthcare, MUFG
• Terry Hardesty, Managing Partner-Nashville, Deloitte and Touche LLP
• Tim Hingtgen, President and COO, Community Health Systems
• Jordan Kendig, Director, Leadership and Organizational Development, HCA Healthcare (Leadership Health Care Board Chair)
• Scott Mertie, President, Kraft Healthcare Consulting LLC
• William Mkanta, M.D., Professor & Head of Department, Western Kentucky University
• Bruce Moore Jr., President-Operations and Service Lines Group, HCA Healthcare
• Leif M. Murphy, President and CEO, Team Health
• Rosemary Plorin, President and CEO, Lovell Communications
• Chris Rogers, Managing Director, Finance Healthcare Practice, Ziegler Investment Banking Corporation
• Allison Scripps, Director of Operations, Quality Care Partnership, BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee (Fellows Class 2020)
• Mark Seitz, President and CEO, National Distribution & Contracting Inc.

Kraft Healthcare Consulting is an affiliate of KraftCPAs.

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Kraft Healthcare Consulting president Scott Mertie is among the professionals chosen for the Nashville Business Journal’s 2020 Health Care Awards.

Scott has more than 25 years of experience in the healthcare industry, with a list of clients that includes hospitals, physicians, and other healthcare providers. Scott also works with the American Institute for Healthcare Compliance (AIHC) to coordinate a series of Medicare/Medicaid cost report boot camps, including one scheduled for March 11-12 in Dallas. This is the fifth time Scott has been chosen for the list.

The Health Care Awards honor “the city’s top business leaders in the health care industry,” the NBJ said in its announcement.

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Click here to see the full list of winners.

Five leaders from KraftCPAs and its affiliates have been chosen as top influencers in the region’s expanding healthcare industry.

Vic Alexander, Lucy Carter, Dana Holmes, Scott Mertie, and Gina Pruitt are among the region’s healthcare professionals featured in Nashville Medical News’ InCharge Health Care 2020 edition released in January.

Vic is chief manager of KraftCPAs; Lucy is a member and practice leader of KraftCPAs’ healthcare industry team; Dana is CEO and managing member of 2nd Generation Capital, a Kraft affiliate; Scott is president of Kraft Healthcare Consulting, a Kraft affiliate; and Gina is member-in-charge with KraftCPAs’ risk assurance and advisory services team.

The InCharge Health Care 2020 edition is available online and in print.

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Scott Nalley has been added to the membership team at KraftCPAs as the 16^th partner at the firm.

Scott, a 2003 graduate of the University of Memphis, has an extensive history with Kraft. He started in December 2004 in the audit team — where he met his wife, Jayme — then left in 2007 to work at Vanderbilt’s internal audit department before returning to Kraft in 2013. Now as part of the firm’s Risk Assurance & Advisory Services (RAAS) team, Scott oversees several of Kraft’s largest internal audit engagements.

In addition to those key roles, Scott is heavily involved in the firm’s system and organization controls (SOC) practice, as well as consulting engagements for HITRUST and HIPAA clients. He also helps lead the firm’s campus recruiting efforts and is active with multiple community and professional organizations, including the TSU Accounting Advisory Board, Internal Auditors Academic Relations Committee, Leadership Health Care, and Rebuilding Together Nashville.

Scott’s new role as a member with the firm began Nov. 1. KraftCPAs, founded in 1958 by the late Joe Kraft, has a total staff of more than 200 team members in its Nashville, Lebanon, and Columbia offices.

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Vic Alexander has gained a new distinction for 2019: A Power 100 Connector.

The Nashville Business Journal chose Vic, the chief manager of KraftCPAs, for its annual Power 100, the newsroom’s list of the most influential people in the city’s business scene. The NBJ described the Connectors category as “the power players who know everyone. They specialize in bringing together powerful people to get things done, often driving decisions under the radar. In short, when you need to connect with someone, these are who you call.”

In describing Vic, the NBJ lauded his “reputation for being one of the city’s most respected and seasoned financial leaders.”

The complete list of the Power 100 will be included in the NBJ’s Nov. 22 print edition.

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Scott Mertie, president of Kraft Healthcare Consulting, LLC (KHC), has been chosen for the Nashville Business Journal’s 2019 Most Admired CEOs and Their Companies Awards. The winners were determined through a public nomination process, followed by a closed voting process among the nominees.

Scott, who has more than 25 years of experience in the healthcare and accounting industries, formed KHC as an affiliate of KraftCPAs in 2009. He has led the company through continued growth over the past 10 years. KHC now provides advisory and compliance services to healthcare providers in more than 40 states, Puerto Rico, and Guam.

In addition to his work with KHC, Scott is being recognized for his leadership of Nashville Brewing Company, a historic, local brewery that he revived in 2016.

Though this is his debut as a Most Admired CEO Awards winner, Scott has earned a number of awards throughout his career, including recent recognition by the NBJ as a winner of the publication’s 2019 Health Care Awards and 2019 Power Leaders in Finance.

The honorees, including KraftCPAs Chief Manager Vic Alexander (this year’s Lifetime Achievement winner), will be recognized Nov. 21 at the JW Marriott Nashville.

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KraftCPAs chief manager Vic Alexander has been chosen by the Nashville Business Journal as this year’s Most Admired CEOs Lifetime Achievement winner.

The annual award was announced Thursday, along with the rest of this year’s winners in the Most Admired CEOs and Their Companies Awards. They will be recognized Nov. 21 at the JW Marriott Nashville.

Vic joined KraftCPAs in 1982 and became chief manager in 1993. While overseeing a staff of more than 200 employees, Vic “has built a reputation for himself as one of the city’s most trusted and experienced financial leaders,” the NBJ said in announcing the achievement.

He has been chosen as a Most Admired CEO six times and has been chosen multiple times for the NBJ’s annual Power Leaders in Accounting and Power Leaders in Finance lists.

“Being chosen for this honor is incredibly flattering and humbling,” Vic said. “But most importantly, this reflects the values, the work, and the integrity of the team we’ve assembled at Kraft.  I’m honored to accept the award on their behalf, and we’ll continue to work hard to deserve this recognition.”

The Most Admired CEOs winners list was determined through a public nomination process, followed by a closed voting process among the nominees.

Josh Hedrick will become a member of Kraft Analytics, LLC — an affiliate of KraftCPAs — effective June 1.

In his current position as a senior manager, Josh specializes in valuation, forensic, and transaction advisory services, along with a variety of consulting services such as industry and competitive analysis, business strategy, and compensation studies.

Josh joined Kraft Analytics in 2009 after working with a large firm in North Carolina, where he specialized in business valuation and litigation support practice.

Josh is a certified valuation analyst (CVA) and received his MBA at Appalachian State University and a post-master’s certificate at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. He’s actively involved with Communities in Schools of Tennessee, Young Leaders Council, and Book’em of Nashville.

Kraft Analytics provides valuation services, including the valuation of businesses, equity interests, and assets; forensic services, such as the assessment of damages in disputes and investigative analysis; and transaction advisory services, including support for buyers and sellers in transactions with structuring analysis, valuation, and due diligence support.

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Gina Pruitt, the member-in-charge of the KraftCPAs risk assurance & advisory services department, has been chosen for the Women to Watch Class of 2019 by Nashville Medical News.

Gina, who joined Kraft in 2010, has more than 30 years of experience working with a diverse mix of clients and is heavily involved with our growing healthcare industry team.

To complement her professional involvement, Gina is active with more than a dozen organizations; among them are industry groups Healthcare Financial Management Association, Leadership Health Care, and Nashville Technology Council, along with community organizations such as Williamson County Habitat for Humanity, Tennessee Performing Arts Center’s technology committee, and Tennessee Tech’s accounting advisory board.

Gina and the nine others chosen for the Class of 2019 will be recognized June 26 with a breakfast and presentation at the Noah Liff Opera Center.

She is the second person from KraftCPAs chosen for the list in the past three years; Lucy Carter, a member and practice leader of the healthcare industry team, was chosen in 2017.

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Click here to see the full Class of 2019 list.

Scott Mertie, president of Kraft Healthcare Consulting, LLC, has been chosen as a winner of the Nashville Business Journal’s 2019 Health Care Awards.

Scott has more than 25 years of experience in the healthcare industry. Most recently, Scott has partnered with the American Institute for Healthcare Compliance (AIHC) to develop a Medicare/Medicaid cost report boot camp. He also worked with the AIHC to create the Certified Cost Report Specialist (CCRS) credential, as well as related education and testing.

His clients include hospitals, long-term care facilities, physicians, and other providers, as well as law firms. His previous experience includes working for a Nashville-based hospital management company, a Nashville hospital system, and other CPA firms.

In its announcement, the NBJ said its annual awards honor the “leaders who help make Music City the nation’s health care capital.” Winners will be honored at an event May 14 at the Omni Nashville Hotel.

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Click here to see the full list of winners.

Every year, Medicare Part A certified institutional providers must submit an accurate and timely cost report to Medicare Administrative Contractors. Filing an inaccurate report is considered a False Claims Act violation, which can have significant repercussions, including financial penalties and legal expenses. Thus, it is critical for healthcare entities to avoid noncompliance by having qualified individuals compile the information needed to file their cost reports.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) website has several cost reporting resources, which have been the best options for professionals seeking information about cost reports — until now.

Kraft Healthcare Consulting’s Scott Mertie teamed up with the American Institute of Healthcare Compliance (AIHC) to create a specialized training program recommended for CFOs, accounting staff, revenue cycle professionals, reimbursement professionals, and any other employees tasked with gathering information for cost reports at a healthcare organization. The program is also the first of its kind to offer a credentialing option specifically for cost reporting proficiency — the certified cost report specialist (CCRS) designation.

KraftCPAs healthcare team members participated in beta testing of the CCRS examination; all seven team members passed and are the first to receive the credential.

Learn more about our Medicare & Medicaid cost reporting services.