Cash Flow, Accounts Payable and Payroll Management Certificate

Have you ever wondered how to manage cash flow in a productive and meaningful way? This session will give you the building blocks to monitor bank balances, protect cash flows and design the cash receipt process. This session will equip you with the knowledge to ask the CFO or accountant the tough questions and understand what they’re saying in future meetings.

Management of accounts payable is an ongoing requirement for practice success. This session will provide a basic overview of bookkeeping, internal cash controls and vendor payment models, as well as skill in negotiating payment terms, reconciling accounts and supervising accounts payable processes. 

This session will give you the tools you need to be successful in your practice to manage payroll. Even if you outsource these functions, this session offers essential insights on how to supervise and manage your largest expense as the person who oversees payroll. 

Christine Kalish, MBA, CMPE
President, Brittain-Kalish Group

Christine Kalish, MBA, CMPE, is a senior executive and trusted healthcare advisor with deep experience in ambulatory care and academic medicine.  For more than thirty years, Kalish has been leading organizations and teams to develop critical infrastructure and growth planning to improve operations, workflow, human resources and revenue cycle.  She continually searches for innovative ways to assist her clients so they can deliver quality care for the populations they serve. 

Penny M. Crow, MS, SHRM-SCP, RHIA
RHIA Principal and Vice President of Training, Brittain-Kalish Group

Penny M. Crow, MS, SHRM-SCP, RHIA, is a nationally recognized executive with progressive senior leadership experience in a wide range of healthcare organizations. As an RHIA, she has a successful track record in health information management, revenue cycle, risk management, and quality improvement. Her MS in I-O Psychology has fueled her passion for working with leaders to prepare and develop future workforces.

Tammy R. Walsh, CHFP, CRCR, FHFMA
CEO/President, Paramount Healthcare Solutions, LLC

Tammy is an executive finance and operations leader with 20+ years’ experience with a focus in healthcare providing cross-industry expertise in strategy, operations, business development, financial consulting and client service with strong leadership, problem-solving, planning, team-building and project management skills. Her background as a CFO for physician groups has led her to be a proven leader to revitalize and restructure problem organizations ensuring organizational excellence.  

Tammy is CEO/Founder of a physician consulting services firm providing strategy and optimization to provider groups and health care organizations across the nation. The services range from physician compensation methodologies, revenue cycle optimization, hospital-physician alignment, clinic operational process improvement, compliance and overall leadership insight. Her services also offer interim-CFO and COO capabilities for provider groups.

Tammy is a member of the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) and serves as an officer for the Lone Star Chapter as well as chairing the state-wide Texas Conference in 2020 and 2021. She is also a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) and Medical Group Management Association (MGMA). Tammy is a frequent speaker and writer on physician-related revenue cycle, finance and strategic topics for these organizations and many others.

Tammy is an adjunct professor teaching courses in Leadership and Healthcare Finance to the Master of Business Administrative Healthcare Students at Texas Christian University. She serves as the Board Chair at the University of North Texas Health Science Center MHA Advisory Board. She is also a member of the Advisory Board at the University of Texas at Arlington, College of Business, Accounting Department.

She is a Certified Healthcare Financial Professional (CHFP) and Certified Revenue Cycle Representative (CRCR). She was recently awarded the Fellow Healthcare Financial Management Association (FHFMA) designation.  

She is a graduate of University of Houston, Texas, with a B.S. degree in Finance.

Sharon Z. Ginchansky, MAOM
MAOM Consultant, Brittain-Kalish Group

Sharon Z. Ginchansky, MAOM, is an organizational consultant with the Brittain-Kalish Group, specializing in revitalizing leadership and organizational change to improve operations and to enhance the way businesses engage their staff. She is recognized as an expert in leading organizations through start up, culture changes, acquisitions and divestitures, and labor negotiations. She has more than 25 years of operational and human resources experience working as an executive in the healthcare field.

Ginchansky holds a bachelor’s degree in English from American Jewish University and a master’s in organizational management from University of Phoenix. She is a member of SHRM, DallasHR and is a former long-time member of Vistage International.

Dawn Adams
Human Resources Consultant, Brittain-Kalish Group

Dawn Adams is a veteran of delivering innovative solutions to solve deep organizational challenges in partnership with leaders from the airline to telecom industries. Recognized for being a catalyst to building high-performance cross-functional teams that exceed organization goals, her passion is enabling organizations to maximize the effectiveness of their most valuable asset — by ensuring that the right people are in the right place, with the right supports, so they are empowered to do the right thing.