Hospital, Managed Care, Compliance, Safety Expert

Specialties & Experience of this Expert Witness

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Dr. Geni Bennetts is an experienced physician executive in healthcare and is a Certified Physician Executive. She has been a hospital subspecialist and Chair of that division. She has chaired hospital care management and managed care compliance. She served as a hospital risk management chair. She is a founder and principal of Resolve Healthcare Consulting. She was Vice Chair, Chair of the Asset/Liability Committee and then Chair of a Bank Board, the latter position held for 5 years. She has been an examiner for the California Department of Managed Health Care and has reviewed over 40 health plans for Quality, Utilization, Grievance and Appeals, and Access and Availability. She has consulted for a number of health plans and held positions for health plans, hospitals and IPAs as consulting interim CMOs, Medical Directors, and Advisors. For the past 14 years Dr. Bennetts has consulted in the following areas of expertise: Patient safety and hospital responsibility and compliance, Medical management. Managed care, Hospital compliance, Grievance and Appeals, HIPAA, Hospital Governance, Utilization Review, CMS requirements and mandates, multi-state healthcare requirements and law, and audit preparation for state and federal reviews. During these 14 years, she has been an expert witness in these same areas. Dr. Bennetts is board certified in pediatrics and pediatric hematology/oncology with certifications in Quality, Utilization Management, and Risk Management. Licensed in California, she has participated in testimony, depositions, declarations and reports in Arizona, Oregon, Washington, Texas, Nevada, Illinois, Utah, Kansas, Idaho, Alaska, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Michigan and California. Her unique expertise is transferable across medical specialties, physical location of medical care in addition to the differing states.