1616 Westgate Circle
Brentwood, Tennessee 37027
(615) 844-6116
(615) 604-2285 (cell)
(615) 844-6117 (fax)
mmiller@intersectadvisors.com
Education and Certification
BS
University of Texas at Arlington
MBA
University of Dallas
Mr. Miller has over 25 years of experience in the healthcare industry working with hospitals and hospital systems of various operating and ownership models. He has an extensive background in hospital operations and financial management. He is an experienced Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer, and Chief Financial Officer at the corporate, regional and local levels. Mr. Miller’s experience includes both the not-for-profit and for-profit arenas, including leadership in a large publicly traded hospital-corporation.
Mr. Miller has focused expertise in assisting distressed businesses move to a position of strategic, operational, and financial stability. His operational expertise is in-depth in terms of running an efficient hospital in a fiscally responsible manner, with a strong adherence to clinical quality, patient satisfaction and physician partnering.
Representative Hospital/Long Term Care Engagements
- 140 beds (Northeast) – retained by hospital system as interim
CEO to provide turnaround management for operational and
licensure issues.
- 450 beds (Midwest) – retained by hospital system to assess
business development and physician recruitment activity.
- 180 beds (Southeast) – retained by owner to assist with
opening of facility by providing start up policies, advisory
services and OR clinical reviews.
- Specialty hospital company (Central) – retained by lender to
perform an operational and financial review of specialty
hospital. Results of review were used by lender as operational
gauge as the hospital company opened additional facilities.
- 150 beds (Southeast) – retained by hospital after lender
required the appointment of a turnaround company.
Reorganized operational areas to include: administrative
functions, business office, accounting office and physician
development.
- LTAC facility (Texas) – retained by consent of both the
majority and minority owners to serve as Chief Restructuring
Officer. Led operational process until sale agreement was in
place with new owner.
- 40 Beds (Texas) – retained by hospital system to act as interim
CEO of hospital and assist in the sale of the hospital.
- 70 Beds (International) – retained by the Board as CEO to
assist in the funding, design and construction of acute care
hospital. Assembled team in host country to provide financial,
legal, marketing/public relations and construction oversight to
project.
- Assisted Living Facility (Southeast) – retained by lender to assess
the long term viability of 3 assisted living facilities.
- 100 beds (Midwest) – retained by hospital after lender required
assessment of operational and financial viability of hospital.
Assessment uncovered physician relationship issues, physician
recruitment issues and lack of operating metrics and/or
controls.
- 120 beds (Southeast) – retained by lender to perform operation
and financial viability of hospital that lender had LOC.
- 160 beds (Northeast) – retained by hospital system to provide
interim management on a CEO level to ensure an smooth
transition after changed in management.
- 190 beds (Northeast) – retained by lender to provide analysis of
shut down cost and procedures for hospital. Monitored process
for lender.
- 25 beds (Central) – retained by lender to assess viability of
facility. Assisted in hospital management develop operational
goals and reporting mechanisms to facility board of trustees.
- Medical facility (West Coast) – retained by investor to provide
due diligence of proposed transaction.
Prior Experience
- Mr. Miller’s consulting experience includes Bridge Associates
were he was a Director primarily focused on healthcare
bankruptcy and restructuring, and as a Principal with Centre
Health Partners where he primarily focused on hospital and
healthcare related assessments and interim assignments.
- Prior to joining Centre Health Partners, Mr. Miller was Vice
President of Operations for a 15 hospital group within a
publically traded company.
- Mr. Miller’s consulting career spans a broad spectrum: nonurban
community hospitals, specialty hospitals, regional
community hospital systems, large tertiary teaching hospitals,
and international hospitals.
- Mr. Miller has served as an expert witness for: (1) a hospital
system in Texas regarding physician recruitment and
credentialing; (2) a multisite physician group regarding a noncompetition
clause; and, (3) a lawsuit regarding corporate
structure, governance, Stark Law prohibitions, and issues
impacting 501(c)(3) tax status.
Publications and Presentations
- Turnaround and Restructuring in the Hospital Industry;
Renaissance, Third Quarter 2006
- Panelist – Fireworks: The Exploding World of Healthcare
Finance; National Funding Association, Atlanta, GA, July 2007.
- Panelist – The Need for a Healthcare Ombudsmen; Turnaround
Management Association, Pittsburgh, PA, April 2008.
- Working With Lenders in Trying Times; Healthcare Financial
Management Association, November 2009
Professional and Civic Activities
- Member, American Bankruptcy Institute
- Member, Turnaround Management Association
- Member, American Health Lawyers Association
- Member, Healthcare Financial Management Association
