Ann Adenbaum retired from Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM) in December 2020 after more than 33 years of distinguished service focused on the Revenue Cycle for the Physician Organization comprised of more than 1400 physicians.
Ann is a nationally recognized healthcare leader with a proven track record in academic medicine for establishing and meeting best financial performance, implementing new technology to streamline business processes, developing high-performance teams and guiding through change, leading with integrity and professionalism while delivering service excellence.
As a Revenue Cycle leader, Ann directed a team of more than 200 staff. She was a member of the WCM Billing and Compliance Oversight Committee that focused on ensuring Medicare and Medicaid billing practices were compliant with federal and state regulations. In addition, Ann guided patients through the complexities of insurance benefits and claims adjudication.
Ann is proud of her lead role in the development of the La Guardia Community College Medical Billing Certificate Program in collaboration with La Guardia Community College, WCM Human Resources and the Harvard Business School NYC Alumni Group. Due to the program’s initial success additional partners included The New York Alliance for Careers in Healthcare (NYACH) and the NYC Department of Small Business Services (SBS). The program has created a career path for unemployed or underemployed NYC residents while providing a feeder of trained candidates with ambition and potential to fill entry level Revenue Cycle positions at WCM and other NYC healthcare institutions.
Ann represented Weill Cornell Medicine on the Faculty Practice Solutions Center Advisory Board, Epic Financial Advisory Committee and was a founding Steering Committee member of East Coast CORE, a regional EPIC User Group focusing on Revenue Cycle. She remains on the board of East Coast CORE as 1st Vice President.
In addition to the Medicare Rights Center, Ann is on the Board of Advisors for Chi-Matic and Nirvana Labs, both small, recently created companies focused on making improvements in healthcare delivery.
Prior to her position at WCM, Ann held positions at New York City Health + Hospitals Woodhull Medical Center and State University of New York Downstate Medical Center.
Ann has always shown an interest in science and healthcare. She received her Bachelor of Science from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master of Health Services Administration from the University of Michigan School of Public Health.
