Jenifer Montesino To Help Maximize Reimbursement And Improve Physician Ratings
Genuine Health Group, a Miami-based, technology-enabled healthcare company focused on the transition to value-based care, announced the appointment of Jenifer Montesino as vice president of revenue and quality. The strategic hire demonstrates the company’s commitment to adding depth of expertise to its leadership team. It also reflects Genuine Health’s multi-faceted approach to value-based care, including the importance of ensuring appropriate Medicare funding for patients and the need for high-performing physicians.
Ms. Montesino will oversee all programs that relate to revenue, including Medicare risk adjustment and quality. As part of her role, she will implement key activities to improve reimbursement accuracy in relation to patient care and quality ratings.
Genuine Health Group operates a number of business lines, including a Medicare Accountable Care Organization (ACO) and Management Service Organization (MSO) that manages Medicare Advantage patients under value-based agreements with health plans, and Genuine Health At Home, which provides home-based care to high-risk patients. Genuine Health Group currently manages more than 32,000 Medicare members.
“Jenifer has extensive experience managing revenue for health plans with more than 500,000 Medicare Advantage members,” said Joe Caruncho, president and CEO of Genuine Health Group, a Miami Accountable Care Organization. “She has created actionable plans that not only contributed to better patient care, but her efforts resulted in dramatic increases in revenue for the companies she served.”
Prior to joining Miami ACO Genuine Health, Jenifer spent twelve years at UnitedHealthcare-owned and operated Medicare Advantage plans in Florida, where she concentrated on Medicare risk adjustment and overseeing primary care physicians’ quality ratings from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
“We continue to recruit executives who share our philosophy of robust, wellness-driven healthcare, paired with a dedication to maximizing efficiency and revenue,” added Dr. Orlando Lopez-Fernandez, the company’s chief medical officer and co-founder. “We’re happy to welcome Jenifer to the team.”
Ms. Montesino earned a master of business administration from Florida International University, where she also earned her bachelor of business administration in management. She is a member of the Golden Key International Honour Society.
For more information on Genuine Health Group, or to schedule an interview with Jenifer Montesino, please contact Meieli Sawyer at 305-668-0070 or msawyer@weinbachgroup.com.
About Genuine Health Group
Genuine Health Group is an analytics-driven healthcare company that assists physicians and health plans in successfully transitioning to value-based payment models. In addition to its physician ACO, its business lines include an MSO and a home health program, Genuine Health At Home.