Mary Lou Bowers MBA
President and Chief Executive Officer
Ms. Bowers, The Pritchard Group President and CEO, is accomplished at understanding and explaining the implication of healthcare trends and their impact on clients’ products, services, and practices. She considers client’s interests and translates the big picture as it relates to the client’s specific project. Ms. Bowers has introduced strategic and tactical solutions that improve competitive performance while increasing revenue and profits for providers and industry. She is a recognized expert in helping hospitals and physician practices build for the future and improve their bottom line—all in an effort to improve patient access to quality care. She is a frequent speaker at national and regional meetings on a broad range of topics: healthcare trends, collaborative partnerships, strategically growing product lines, feasibility of new services, business drivers in the healthcare marketplace, fundraising, alignment and win-win physician and hospital relationships, practice efficiency, billing and coding, and reimbursement issues in healthcare.
Ms. Bowers helped hospitals across the country prepare for implementation of the ambulatory payment classification (APC) system. She is considered a leading expert on the financial impact of changing healthcare regulations on hospitals, centers, providers, and industry. She has led efforts for a national client base on such projects as cancer center facility development, managed care contract reviews and negotiation, marketing, physician and integrated delivery system networking, managed service organization design and implementation, and comprehensive reviews of hospital and center billing and coding and operations management.
Recently, Ms. Bowers assisted hospitals and healthcare clients with development of business and financial plans, assessment of existing and expansion of future product lines to increase volumes and revenue, as well as serving their local community, developing programs such as prevention, feasibility assessment of the addition of diagnostic centers, all in an effort to retain and grow market share. She understands the regulatory language and implications and can translate the requirements into practical language to assist clients in making strategic business decisions.
Executive Profile
- Three decades of experience as a health care administrator, serving in many capacities from physician group practice administrator to hospital system vice president
- Extensive experience with pharmaceutical client’s strategic product and business plan development, contracting, compliance, medical indications, private insurers, and start-up company development
- Facilitates strategic collaboration and development of new products for healthcare IT firm
- Development of a healthcare portfolio for national marketing firm
- Leading expert on compliance and regulatory requirements and interpreting the impact and financial implications for providers, hospitals, centers, practices, and industry
- Consultant for integrated delivery systems, including PHOs, IPAs, and MSOs, in the area of products and programs with particular emphasis on risk products
- Project manager for hospital system to develop comprehensive business plan for integration of services and growth of the existing oncology product line
- Developed and managed operations of a national oncology network, several ambulatory infusion centers, and ambulatory surgical centers
- Project manager for hospital-physician alignment including facilitation of discussions and negotiations and development of contractual agreements with selected legal counsel
- Nationally recognized speaker providing educational programs that are practical and vital in helping hospitals, providers, and industry translate ever-changing regulatory language into strategic business decisions
- Consultant and visiting professor for three national oncology pharmaceutical companies, providing consulting on strategic business decisions in hospitals and private practice settings