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Julie Decker has been a senior level healthcare executive for the past 10 years. The scope of her experience includes national sales responsibility, operations, company turnarounds, and mergers and acquisitions for leading healthcare companies. Prior to joining FocalPoint as an operating partner, Ms. Decker held the position of Senior Vice President of Sales for Crescent Healthcare, a national pharmacy provider. She was responsible for both the acute and chronic divisions, as well the development of ambulatory infusion centers. Recognizing the importance of pharmaceutical partnerships, Ms. Decker has built alliances with major manufacturers and distributors. She has been integral in lobbying CMS and Congress for higher physician reimbursement and extended Medicare coverage. Prior to January 2003, Ms. Decker spent eight years at Nations Healthcare ("NHC") and it's successors as a Senior Vice President of Sales and Operations. NHC was an infusion pharmacy, respiratory, home health nursing and durable medical equipment company which contributed to Ms. Decker's expertise in the integrated delivery model. While at NHC she led due diligence teams through several mergers, acquisitions and company consolidations. She had P&L responsibility for the Pacific Region and Midwest territories which generated a net revenue of $120 million. Ms. Decker's responsibilities extended to commercial payers and she implemented a managed care matrix of over 300 contracts to leverage statewide and national networks.
Ms. Decker also established a Medicare certified hospice and home health program in Southern California with multi-site locations. In 1996, she established a hospice Foundation that continues to operate and until 2004 she served on the San Diego Hospice Board of Directors.
A Massachusetts native, Ms. Decker earned her BA degree, cum laude, from Alaska Pacific University, and is a graduate of UC San Diego's Healthcare Executive Leadership Program. Her current and past professional affiliations include the Bioethics Committee of Scripps Memorial Hospital, San Diego Women's Healthcare Administrators, Adaptive Business Leaders Roundtable, and First Opinion E-Health Technologies.
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