Ambulatory Surgery Consulting Partners

Cindy has practiced nursing for over 30 years and has worked in the perioperative arena for more than half of her career. As a staff nurse she worked in all perioperative areas (presurgical testing, day surgery, PACU phases I and II, OR, surgical scrub). Cindy’s experience also includes quality improvement with Six Sigma training, project management, policy & procedure development, staff education, electronic medical record implementation, and management of both free-standing and hospital-based ambulatory surgery centers (ASC). Cindy’s most recent administrative position was that of Clinical Director for a busy physician-owned ophthalmology surgery center. Her responsibilities included managing the clinical staff, credentialing & privileging of providers, risk management, accreditation preparation, facility management, management of vendor contracts and supply chain. In addition to managing that facility, she concurrently served as project manager for the development and opening of a new surgery center owned by the same physician group. Currently, Cindy is working for the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) as an ASC surveyor, conducting Medicare deemed status surveys and those independent of Medicare. 

Anapa is a Certified Administrator Surgery Center (CASC) with over 30 years of healthcare leadership experience including ambulatory surgery centers as well as private, hospital-based and academic medical practices. She has management expertise in human resources (talent acquisition, salary negotiation, staff development & training, terminations), revenue cycle (contract negotiation, benchmarking & forecasting, documentation & coding, billing & collections, reimbursement, data analytics & reporting), compliance (Federal regulatory reporting, HIPAA, contract adherence, clinical documentation), credentialing (payer revalidation, provider verification), physician education (coding & documentation guidelines, payer medical policy adherence), health information management (system configuration & implementation, file maintenance, release of information), operations management (policies & procedures development, staffing) and finance. In her current roles as an ASC administrator and practice CFO, Anapa's combined responsibilities include leading aspects of personnel management, budgetary oversight and strategic planning related to issues like supply chain and revenue management for two physician-owned ambulatory surgery centers and medical practice in the most cost effective manner and is responsible for managing all financial risks for the organization.