Julie Rhodovi

Julie Rhodovi is an accomplished, senior executive level professional, with health care strategy development, revenue cycle, payor and government relations, and contract relations experience. Her experience includes managing contract negotiations, field-based services, oversight of the cross-functional network service experience, and working with interdisciplinary management teams across the country to determine needed relations with payor organizations. She has worked in the post-acute care setting and the payor field for over 30 years, with direct experience in the building and launching of a Medicare Advantage plan. Throughout the past 20 years, Julie's direct focus has been in the wound care space of post-acute care, with specific concentration on the regulations and coverage.
Ms. Rhodovi is a Certified Wound Care Associate (CWCA) with the American Board of Wound Management (ABWM) and the current treasurer with the ABWM Foundation, as a Board of Trustee. She is a founding executive member and treasurer of the Post-Acute Wound and Skin Integrity Council (PAWSIC) and a Board Member on the Alliance of Wound Care Stakeholders. Ms. Rhodovi holds a master’s in business administration with a concentration in health management and is a certified six sigma lean black belt in healthcare (LBBH).

Kathleen D. Schaum is the President and founder of Kathleen D. Schaum & Associates, Inc. where she has served as a wound/ulcer management reimbursement strategy consultant and educator for more than 25 years. She has more than 50 years of reimbursement experience and success across the health care, biotech, and medical industries, where she held leadership positions at health care companies e.g., Smith & Nephew, Inc. (Director of Medical Products Reimbursement), Healthpoint, Ltd. (Director of Reimbursement), Johnson & Johnson Medical (Director of Reimbursement), and Bimeco (Manager of Alternate Care Sales Division).

Kathleen has consulted with hundreds of hospital owned outpatient provider-based departments, physicians, and other qualified healthcare professionals to start new wound/ulcer management programs or to transform existing programs that were in disarray. She has also been an asset for wound/ulcer management manufacturers, distributors, and suppliers - especially those seeking assistance with executive and sales force reimbursement education, with reimbursement strategy development for new products, and with the reimbursement component of the merger and acquisition due diligence process.

Kathleen also provides reimbursement education at many regional/national wound/ulcer management symposiums. As a writer and authority in her field, Kathleen has shared her knowledge in medical journals: Payment Strategies in Advances in Skin & Wound Care and Business Briefs and Consultation Corner in Today’s Wound Clinic. Based on her published articles, EXPERTSCAPE recognized Kathleen as a world expert for reimbursement: health insurance– she is in the top 0.08% of more than 30,000 worldwide authors – she ranks number 25 in the world.

Julie Rhodovi is an accomplished, senior executive level professional, with health care strategy development, revenue cycle, payor and government relations, and contract relations experience. Her experience includes managing contract negotiations, field-based services, oversight of the cross-functional network service experience, and working with interdisciplinary management teams across the country to determine needed relations with payor organizations. She has worked in the post-acute care setting and the payor field for over 30 years, with direct experience in the building and launching of a Medicare Advantage plan. Throughout the past 20 years, Julie's direct focus has been in the wound care space of post-acute care, with specific concentration on the regulations and coverage.
Ms. Rhodovi is a Certified Wound Care Associate (CWCA) with the American Board of Wound Management (ABWM) and the current treasurer with the ABWM Foundation, as a Board of Trustee. She is a founding executive member and treasurer of the Post-Acute Wound and Skin Integrity Council (PAWSIC) and a Board Member on the Alliance of Wound Care Stakeholders. Ms. Rhodovi holds a master’s in business administration with a concentration in health management and is a certified six sigma lean black belt in healthcare (LBBH).