Mike Cimerola, has more than 20 years of healthcare management, consulting and business experience. He specializes in developing and implementing strategic initiatives focusing on hospital-physician partnerships, managed care programs and physician practice development and practice automation. Mr. Cimerola also has extensive operating and management experience in management services organization (MSO), managed care and hospital-based financial and clinical operations. He has directed the selection and implementation of practice management systems, electronic medical records systems and hospital financial and clinical information systems.

Prior to Glenridge, Mr. Cimerola was Vice President of Network Development at the largest physician owned delivery system in the Mid-Atlantic area. Using innovative economic modeling methods, he developed a large network of primary care and specialty physicians and negotiated provider contracts for all health services. His efforts resulted in one of the largest provider networks in the Mid-Atlantic region. Mr. Cimerola also spent twelve years in health system development and operations. As Vice President of Financial Administrative Services at an urban teaching hospital, his responsibilities included managing the health system’s financial and administrative operations. In addition, he established and managed the physician-hospital MSO and oversaw the selection and implementation of both the hospital and MSO financial and administrative information systems. He developed a number of innovative programs focusing on creating market share, reducing health system costs and building cash reserves for the hospital and its subsidiaries. Mr. Cimerola has been a senior healthcare management consultant with Coopers and Lybrand, in Washington, D.C. and a principal in a regional healthcare consulting firm serving the financial, information systems and operations improvement needs of physician groups and hospitals