LBA Media Room: Subject Matter Experts

Healthcare

Delena Howard, Director of LBA Healthcare Consulting Services, LLC

Delena Howard joined the LBA team in January 2010 with more than 15 years of experience in the healthcare industry. Delena oversees all of LBA’s Healthcare Consulting services and ensures that clients, including large and small healthcare practices throughout the Northeast Florida region, are reaping significant business success in their practices. Having earned her CPC-H certification from the American Academy of Professional Coders, Delena has extensive experience with hospital outpatient services and physician groups. Her consulting services include evaluation and management coding, billing, financial analysis, pricing, and charge master. Delena’s expertise in physician and outpatient chart reviews, coding reviews and financial impact analysis for healthcare organizations provides LBA’s Healthcare Niche’s clients with overall regulatory compliance and financial expertise to provide long-term success.

Jim White, Partner in Charge of LBA’s
Healthcare Niche

With more than 15 years of experience in business advisory services to healthcare entities, Jim White serves as the Partner in Charge of LBA’s Healthcare Niche. This technically specialized group encompasses accounting and consulting professionals that provide day-to-day expertise to a variety of large and small healthcare businesses. Jim works with numerous healthcare clients, including physicians, large and small physician groups, and corporate entities that service the healthcare industry. Jim serves as a healthcare regulation and compliance expert, in addition to providing strategic planning for his clients, which includes assisting healthcare businesses with long-term financial viability, recruiting and staffing, and ensuring business operations are as efficient as possible. Jim also has extensive experience in healthcare credentialing, insurance contracting and practice reviews that help ensure the success, profitability and overall compliance of healthcare practices.

Richard Brock, Chairman of the Board

As Chairman of the Board for the LBA Group of Companies, Richard Brock paved the way to developing LBA’s holistic approach to healthcare consulting. He is highly regarded for his expertise in assisting physicians with practice profitability and efficiency, personal financial planning, asset protection, insurance negotiations, and compliance/regulatory consulting. Richard has been heavily involved in healthcare consulting during his 30 years at LBA, successfully evaluating business opportunities such as healthcare practice mergers, bringing in new practice partners, selling practices and compensation formulas, among others. Richard has been instrumental in the successful merger of several large Northeast Florida practices, in addition to providing numerous small practices with financial expertise to help ensure long-term profitability, regulatory compliance and beneficial insurance negotiations.

David Brinson, Tax and Business Advisory Services Partner

Having been with LBA for more than 28 years, David Brinson’s expertise with LBA Healthcare Consulting Services focuses primarily on the long-term financial success of healthcare professionals. While he and the team work closely with physicians and dentists to ensure profitability of their practices, David works one-on-one with healthcare professionals to develop long-term goals and chart the path to achieve those goals — essentially, financial planning for life success. Retirement planning, establishing family limited partnerships, tax planning, education savings and estate planning are just a few of the specialties that David brings to the LBA Healthcare Consulting Services team.

Bill Shelton, Tax and Business Advisory
Services Partner

Bill Shelton joined The LBA Group in 1999 and was elected partner in 2007. Having 20 years of experience in proactive tax planning and business advice, Bill provides LBA’s Healthcare clients with the full-service, holistic healthcare consulting services needed to help ensure profitability of their healthcare practices. Bill has extensive expertise in software analysis, enabling him to make educated recommendations on billing and accounting software to ensure accurate and profitable financial operations. Bill focuses particularly on proactive tax planning for physicians and their practices, in addition to assisting with practice establishment or expansion. Financing, bank negotiations, and corporation set-up, including S corporations or C corporations, are the added value services that Bill brings to LBA’s healthcare clients.