Zach has served as both a rural hospital executive and a trusted healthcare advisor driving financial and operational performance improvement at rural and community hospitals coast-to-coast from Maine to Washington. Zach has developed a deep understanding of the unique challenges faced by rural hospitals and has helped numerous hospitals to improve their financial performance and streamline operations to better serve the communities in which they operate. Zach is highly skilled in the areas of Medicare cost report optimization for critical access hospitals – having established a track record of identifying opportunities to maximize reimbursements from cost-based payors and improve overall cost report accuracy – and fair market valuation having delivered a broad spectrum of valuation services ranging from determining fair market value of provider compensation, valuations for hospitals seeking to acquire independent practices, and publicly traded hospital operators acquiring entire health systems. Zach has also presented at the National Rural Health Association’s annual conference and in various states on topics including financial and operational improvement, swing bed program growth, rural health clinics and cost report opportunities and best practices.

Education

Zach earned a BS in Commerce with a specialization in Marketing along with a Finance minor from Niagara University and an MBA from Louisiana State University-Shreveport. Zach is also a Certified Valuation Analyst and a member of the National Association of Certified Valuators and Analysts.