Regulatory & Government Affairs
Health Care
Tax-Exempt Finance

Reading
610.478.2032
610.371.7981 fax
ncb@stevenslee.com

As Senior Managing Director of Health Care Finance, Nancy uses her extensive experience in this area and knowledge of tax-exempt debt to assist health care clients in finance-related matters, including those related to Medicare and Medicaid. She is a valued member of both the State and Federal Government Relations Health Care teams and works with the firm’s health care legal group on federal lobbying and regulatory issues. In addition, she participates with Stevens & Lee’s financial advisory affiliate, Financial S&Lutions, in health care-related engagements.

In her government relations role, Nancy assists hospitals and related organizations with a variety of regulatory issues. She is a recognized expert in Medicare funding policy, Medicare wage index, disproportionate share and federal funding of state Medicaid programs.  While at Stevens & Lee, she developed the policy strategy for two successful separate hospital reclassifications efforts that resulted in significant increases in Medicare funding for those clients.

Prior to joining Stevens & Lee, Nancy worked for a large Harrisburg, PA-based government relations firm and has extensive experience working with hospital CEOs and CFOs throughout Pennsylvania. She also was Vice President of Healthcare Finance and Insurance for The Hospital & Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania (HAP) in Harrisburg. In that role, she directed regulatory and legislative policy for health care finance relating to Medicaid, Medicare, commercial insurance and managed care. During the period of high-managed care growth in Pennsylvania, Nancy developed numerous resources for hospitals to use in negotiating managed care contracts and in securing prompt payment from all types of payors.  She also served as a key facilitator in the development of Pennsylvania’s policy for the distribution of $11.2 billion in funds from the national tobacco settlement to hospitals.

Nancy began her healthcare career with AllHEALTH, an affiliate of the Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania, overseeing the financial services program line. She developed programs that provided over $300 million in tax-exempt financing to Pennsylvania hospitals and health systems and designed the $1.7 billion funding mechanism for the Pennsylvania Medicaid pools in the 1990s. She also structured investment pools, taxable leasing programs and insurance premium financing products. 

Nancy has devoted her career to the development of health care finance professionals. She has been a member of the faculty of St. Francis University of Moline, Illinois, where she taught both Healthcare Finance and Healthcare Economics for the Masters in Healthcare Administration Degree Program. She is a Fellow in the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA), where she currently serves at the national level on the Chapter Advancement Team. Nancy has served the association in various high-level roles, including a national appointment as Chair of the HFMA CFO Advisory Forum. While President of HFMA’s Appalachian Chapter of Central Pennsylvania, she established a scholarship program for students enrolled in the Masters of Health Administration Program at Penn State-Harrisburg. As Regional Executive for HFMA, she worked extensively with hospital financial executives throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

Nancy is a nationally recognized speaker on Medicare and provides updates at HFMA’s national education meetings and Annual National Institute.

She holds Series 7 and Series 63 licenses from FINRA.

Education:
Vanderbilt University, MBA, 1978
Vanderbilt University, B.A., cum laude, 1976