Chapter Officer Biographies - Georgia Chapter HFMA

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Karen Newton,

President

knewton@cahga.com

Karen Newton is the Director of Third Party Reimbursement for Clinton A. Harkins, P.C. where she has been employed for 13 years. With 35 years of hospital financial experience, she has held the positions of Admission Supervisor, Manager of Patient Accounts and Director of a Centralized Business Office responsible for nine (9) Long Term Acute Care Facilities located in the Eastern half of the United States. Karen has been active with Georgia HFMA for 19 years serving on the Managed Care committee, Chairing the PFS and Physician Practice Management Forum and Chairing the CPAR committee. Karen served as the Georgia Chapter Treasurer, Program Chair, President-Elect and is currently the President for the Georgia Chapter of HFMA. Karen is the recipient of the Follmer Bronze, Reeves Silver and Muncie Gold Merit Award, Sister Rose Margaret Schweers Most Valuable Member Award and the 2008 –2009 President’s Award.

Karen has been married 21 years to her husband Jim and lives in Marietta. In her spare time, she is an active Tennis player and enjoys spending time with her daughter and friends.

Phone:	678-312-5635
Fax:	770-339-2135
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Cynamin Kinard,

President-Elect

ckinard@gwinnettmedicalcenter.org

Cynamin Kinard is the Patient Financial Services Director at Gwinnett Medical Center in Lawrenceville, GA, where she has been employed for 19 years. She is a Certified Patient Accounts Representative (CPAR), and obtained her bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Shorter College. She has been a member of Georgia Access Management Association (GAMA) where she served as President for two years, 2002-2004. On May 2, 2010, Cynamin became the recipient of the National Association of Healthcare Access Management (NAHAM) Marian Blankenship Distinguished Service Award.

Cynamin has been active in Georgia HFMA serving as a Joint Chairperson for the Education and Logistics’ Committee’s (2003-2006), a Joint Chairperson for the 2007 Dixie Committee, Secretary, Treasurer, Program Chair, and as President Elect. Cynamin has received the Ann P. Longshore Distinguished Service Award and National HFMA’s Bronze Medal of Honor Founders Award. Also, she is a recipient of the Georgia Chapter’s Charles H Anderson President’s awards (2003-2004 and 2006-2007).

Phone:	478-633-2097
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Jane Gray,

Program Chairperson

gray.jane@mccg.org

Jane Gray is the Assistant VP for the Revenue Cycle at The Medical Center of Central Georgia in Macon, Georgia. With 21 years of hospital financial experience, she was the Director of Internal Audit and Corporate Compliance prior to her transition to the revenue cycle in 2000. She currently works with an outstanding group of leaders over Patient Access, Clinical Intake, Outpatient Coding, Revenue Management, the Central Business Office and Physician Billing & Support. An alumnus of Indiana University with a BS in Accounting, Jane is a Certified Public Accountant, is a board certified fellow through the American College of Healthcare Executives, is a Fellow of the Advisory Board Company, and a Fellow of the Healthcare Financial Management Association. A recipient of HFMA’s Follmer Bronze Merit Award and the Reeves Silver Merit Award, Jane has served on HFMA’s National Advisory Council, is currently a member of National’s Revenue Cycle KPI Task Force, and is currently the Program Chair for the Georgia Chapter of HFMA.

A native of Hawaii, Jane has been married to her husband, Tracy, for 18 years. They live in Forsyth, enjoy playing tennis and have three children – Jenna, 17, Dalton, 21, and John, 21.

Phone:	404-686-7744
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Roxann Arnold,

Treasurer

roxann.arnold@emoryhealthcare.org

As director of Patient Financial Services at Emory University Hospital Midtown and employed there for more than 35 years, Roxann Arnold has seen her share of change! From manual charge posting and hand-assembly of monthly billing to today’s electronic claims adjudication and pre-certification – the world of patient accounting and admissions evolved tremendously since she started working part-time in many different business office functions during high school and teaching vacations.

After earning her undergraduate and master’s degrees at West Georgia College, Roxann was an elementary and high school teacher for seven years in the Carroll County district. She made a career change, and began full time work at Crawford Long Hospital in the business office. She moved quickly into several different leadership positions – her high school part-time experience really paying off here!

Most recently, Roxann was nominated to Woodruff Health Sciences Center’s Woodruff Leadership Academy (WLA). During the year-long WLA program, Roxann was also charged with consolidating all administrative and operational aspects of Emory’s outpatient infusion center into the Emory University Hospital Midtown admissions and billing system.

This year, along with several other projects, Roxann has been working on transitioning additional cardiology and infusion billing practices to the hospital. She is also looking forward to the next couple of years and the challenges of bringing on additional hospitals revenue cycle functions into a Emory Healthcare system environment.

Roxann’s leadership is known as a real strength at Emory Midtown, her management skills and industry knowledge often responsible for her being asked to join, or lead, a variety of hospital and system projects. Today, she is one of the leaders on Emory Healthcare’s Global Patient registration initiative that includes the two hospitals and The Emory Clinic.

One who is supportive of professional education

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Kimberly Farmer,

Secretary

kfarmerhfma@windstream.net

Kimberly Farmer, FHFMA is currently employed by Bottom Line Systems, Inc. as the Assistant Vice President in Georgia. Kimberly attended North Georgia College and State University where she received her Bachelor of Business Administration in 2001. Kimberly began her career in healthcare at Gwinnett Medical Center in Lawrenceville, GA, where she held many positions from 1993-2000. She was the Patient Access Manager at Northeast Georgia Medical Center and spent the last 10 years working for Chamberlin Edmonds in various roles prior to starting with Bottom Line Systems in 2011.
Kimberly has been an active member with Georgia HFMA for 14 years Chairing the Education Content, Logistics and Membership Retention Committees. Kimberly served as the Teams Liaison and Scroll Editor and is currently in her second term on the Board of Directors for the Communications Council. Kimberly received national recognition by achieving Certified Healthcare Financial Professional; Fellow HFMA; recipient of two Helen M. Yerger Awards; Follmer Bronze Merit; Reeves Silver Merit; Muncie Gold Merit and Medal of Honor. Achievements in the Georgia Chapter include CPAR, Advanced CPAR, Sister Rose Margaret Schweers Most Valuable member, two time recipient of the Charles H. Anderson Presidents Award; and Ann P. Longshore Distinguished Service Award.

Kimberly resides in Mount Airy, Georgia with her husband of 15 years Stacy and their 5 year old son Tyler.

Phone:	(770) 317-8480
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Bill Eikost,

Immediate Past President

beikost@comcast.net

Bill Eikost has been an active member of the Georgia Chapter of HFMA since 1989. He is the Immediate Past President of the Georgia Chapter. He served as President-Elect (2009-2010) Program Chair (2008-2009), Treasurer (2007-2008), Secretary (2006-2007) and two terms on the Board of Directors. Bill was the Co-winner of the Ann P. Longshore Distinguished Service Award in 1998 and has won two Yerger Awards for outstanding performance in Education and Collaboration. He has served on and Chaired several committees with the Georgia Chapter.

For the past 22 years, Bill has worked for various outsourcing and A/R management companies in Georgia, providing accounts receivable solutions to customers throughout the Southeast and across the country. Bill is currently an Executive Director of Business Development with AHC, Inc.

In his spare time, Bill enjoys traveling, golf, supporting his boys in their sports endeavors, while often announcing at their games, and spending time with family and friends. He and his wife Jan have been married for 23 years and live in Powder Springs, Georgia with their two boys, Zachary(15) and Avery(13) and their dog Zoe.