Meeting/Event Information

Join us as we welcome back Bobbi Buell, principal for provider services & reimbursement information for onPoint Oncology Inc., and Ricky Newton, chief financial and operating officer at Community Oncology Alliance. Both Bobbi and Ricky are well respected in the oncology space and it is our privilege to host them for members interested in hot topics in reimbursement that affect your practice. 

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Speakers

Bobbi Buell
Roberta L. Buell is a Principal for Provider Services & Reimbursement Information for onPoint Oncology Inc., and a nationally recognized expert in Oncology Reimbursement. For the last 23 years, she has worked almost exclusively with access issues--billing, coding and reimbursement for drug therapies. Bobbi speaks to associations and groups nationwide about coding, regulatory, and reimbursement issues. She has presented over 600 cancer reimbursement management seminars since 1991. Currently, Bobbi is the content director for the products, focalPoint® and assistPoint®. Her newsletter, The E-Reimbursement News, is read by 4700 subscribers each month.

Bobbi started her career in clinical administration at Barnes Hospital-Washington University School of Medicine, Massachusetts General hospital, and Stanford University Medical Center as well as having been a Senior Consultant for Deloitte & Touche and Ernst & Young.

Bobbi received her BA degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and her MBA degree from Stanford University Graduate School of Business, Palo Alto, California.

Ricky Newton

Ricky Newton, CPA has over 23 years of experience in the health care industry. As a Chief Financial and Operating Officer, he provides guidance and support for COA practices in the critical areas of administration, purchasing, billing, and practice management. The ability to benchmark operations and finances is a critical part of the payment reform models proposed by COA and which many practices are adopting.

Ricky is the Director of Cancer Specialists of Tidewater, Ltd (CST). Prior to joining the practice he was a CPA with the public accounting firm of Failes & Associates, where he spent many years helping physicians negotiate compensation contracts, benchmarking financial data, and using that data to help practices become more efficient.

Mr. Newton also created the AnalyzeIt software that breaks down costs from a practice’s income statement into the costs per CPT code. This allows practices to look at the cost of treating patients in various regimens verses what would be reimbursed for all services including the drugs, labs, and services.