Steve is a Senior Manager in BerryDunn’s Government Consulting Group. He has been helping state and local governments increase their revenues and better manage their costs for over 30 years. During that time he has helped clients recover over $700 million in revenues and improve their compliance with federal program requirements so that they can retain those funds. He has worked with over 25 state and local agencies helping them increase revenues, reduce costs, and improve program compliance. Steve helps clients better understand what drives their program costs and align costs with program goals and objectives.
As a member of BerryDunn’s Recovery Advisory Team, Steve has helped public health and child welfare agencies develop and implement initiatives to increase their claiming of federal funds to pay for critical services needed to address the COVID-19 outbreak.
Experience Highlights
Steve helps child welfare, public health, juvenile justice, and other health and human services agencies with a variety of issues including:
- Cost allocation and rate setting
- Revenue optimization
- Activity-based cost accounting
- Cost analysis and reduction
- Data analytics
- Budget analysis and development
- Process improvement
- Advanced planning document preparation
- Medicaid cost reporting, including Upper Payment Limit (UPL) and Certified Public Expenditures (CPE)
- Waiver development and cost analysis
- Health insurance exchange, juvenile services, child welfare, and marijuana financial and programmatic audits and performance reviews