Partnering with HFRI to Improve Your Accounts Receivable
We’re focused on providing our clients a smooth and easy implementation process, ongoing consultation and a powerful approach to AR recovery and resolution that relies on a combination of robotic process automation, intelligent automation and staff specialization. HFRI solutions deliver accelerated AR recovery and resolution with fewer write-offs and increased cash collection.
Our leadership team has over 20 years of business process engineering, IT revenue cycle, and revenue cycle management experience. Our mission to is help you collect more of what your hospitals are owed by insurance companies faster while improving your bottom line performance.
In today’s unforgiving economic environment, you can’t afford to leave money on the table. By partnering with HFRI, you’ll be positioned to recover every dollar your organization is entitled to.
Leadership Team
Jerry Connelly
President and CEO
Jerry joined HFRI as President and CEO in 2014. Previously, he was Vice President of Strategy and Business Development at Philips Healthcare. In 2010, Philips purchased medSage Technologies, a medical SAS provider, which Jerry led through rapid growth as President and CEO. Jerry also served as Executive Vice President of Morneau Sobeco, a major benefit outsourcing firm, which completed a successful IPO in 2005. Jerry began his career with the international management consulting firm, Bain & Company, where he worked in their San Francisco and Toronto offices.
In 1985, he earned an Industrial Engineering degree from Stanford University, where he was a member of both Tau Beta Pi and Phi Beta Kappa. In 1990, he won the Ford Prize honoring the valedictorian of the European Institute of Business Administration (INSEAD), a leading international MBA program.
Anthony Giuliani
CFO
Anthony joined HFRI in October of 2014. Previously, Anthony was with Philips Healthcare with responsibilities in business development. Prior to 2010 Anthony was with medSage Technologies and had responsibilities for financial management and operational analytics. Prior to joining the medSage team, he worked with Giuliani Consulting Company in the technology, healthcare and energy fields.
Peter Ripper
CEO of PARA, an HFRI company
Peter has worked in health care since 1975. Peter began his health care career as a Financial Analyst and Hospital Controller for American Medicorp, Inc. (NYSE). During 1976 and 1977 he served as a Principal Accountant at UCLA Medical Center, working in the Reimbursement Department.
In 1978 he co-founded his first health care consulting firm (Med-Charge Analysis, Inc.). Med-Charge specialized in auditing acute care hospital bills to improve the accuracy of the charge capture process. In 1982 Peter sold Med-Charge to a New York Stock Exchange listed company, (Omnicare, Inc.) and from 1982 through 1985 he managed the charge capture health care consulting division of Omnicare.
In 1985 Peter formed his second company PARA-HCFS. PARA specializes in the review of charge masters to improve coding, pricing and charge capture. PARA also maintains an extensive database of pricing history for every hospital that participates in Medicare. As of July 2019, Healthcare Financial Resources (HFRI) acquired PARA-HCFS, establishing a new standard for revenue cycle service where Peter brings his expertise and leadership to both companies in his current role as the CEO of PARA HealthCare Analytics, an HFRI Company.
Jon Giuliani
Vice President, Operations
Jon joined HFRI in 2015. During his tenure he helped revamp HFRI’s operations to become less labor intensive and more efficient. Through his leadership, Jon ushered in the advances in automation and the breadth of analytics that set HFRI apart—delivering on the vision of the executive team, led by Jerry Connelly.
HFRI has experienced significant gains in productivity and revenue during his time. Today, Jon now directs the operations, sales, and marketing departments at HFRI.
Before joining HFRI, Jon oversaw and managed a business analyst unit within Philips Healthcare. This group, through advanced analytics, provided business process modeling to apply best practices and drive efficiency for revenue impacting decisions. Prior to Philips, Jon worked in the Finance Department of medSage Technologies and as a consultant with Giuliani Consulting Company providing various financial analyses, projections, and valuations.
Matt Teagarden
Senior Director, IT
Matt brings 20 years of IT experience to HFRI leadership team with a focus on system automation and security. He maintains a working knowledge of many networking and system technologies both past and present to help HFRI choose the best technical path for the company. With his past experiences of architecting products and solutions in both the ISP\Telecom and Healthcare industries, Matt brings a very diverse set of problem-solving skills to HFRI.
