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Comprehensive Healthcare Advisory Services

Partnering with Dean Dorton to administer core management functions and optimize operational efficiencies can improve the trajectory of your healthcare organization with sustainable results.

Tailored healthcare solutions

Dean Dorton’s healthcare team has been trusted advisors to healthcare providers nationwide enhancing revenue cycle management, improving operations, and navigating regulatory changes, allowing health systems and physicians to optimize care delivery. We provide a full suite of advisory and outsourced services from initial setup through succession planning, giving you time to focus solely on the demands impacting clinical and leadership duties.

  • More than 70 dedicated healthcare team members
  • More than 45 years of industry experience
  • Leveraging current and predictive data, analysis, and technology to drive your performance
  • Full suite of advisory and outsourced services

Who we serve

We’re dedicated to helping organizations across the entire healthcare spectrum navigate industry complexities and optimize their operations. Whether it’s a large healthcare system or specialized clinic, our expert advisory team provides the tailored guidance your organization needs to succeed in the long term.

We serve:

  • Academic medical centers
  • Health systems and hospitals
  • Physician practices and medical groups
  • Multi-specialty and specialty clinics
  • Ambulatory surgery centers
  • Long-term care facilities

What we do

Health Systems Operational Transformation

We guide your transformation with proven methodologies and a seamless approach aligned to your goals, whether it’s cutting costs or improving patient care, ensuring long-term success and sustainable growth.

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Strategy and Strategy Implementation

We channel our decades of experience into developing a customized healthcare strategy, whether enterprise-wide or service-line specific, that achieves measurable, consistent results to keep your organization competitive and future-ready.

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Finance

As the industry’s complexity grows, we help you overcome financial challenges, from revenue cycle optimization to strategic financial planning, keeping your financial operations efficient, compliant, and positioned to thrive today and tomorrow.

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Risk Management & Compliance

From enterprise-wide assessments to HIPAA and cybersecurity risk evaluations, our tailored solutions help you identify vulnerabilities and implement robust controls to protect your operations and facilitate long-term stability.

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Medical Billing & Credentialing

By partnering with Dean Dorton’s expert team for medical billing and credentialing, you can increase your focus on practice operations, patient care and clinical outcomes.

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Technology & Data Analytics

A trusted partner in helping you navigate complex technology decisions, ensuring you maximize ROI without the usual high risks — from IT strategy to data analytics implementation, outsourced systems administration, and EHR evaluation.

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Serving Your Entire Healthcare Business
Outsourced Accounting Audit & Assurance Tax Data Analytics & AI Cybersecurity SEC Provision and Compliance IT Audit & Compliance IT Infrastructure & Cloud Solutions Managed IT Services Business Valuation Services Forensic Accounting Mergers and Acquisitions Transaction Advisory Services Succession Planning Life Sciences

Meet Our Experts

Adam Shewmaker, FHFMA

Healthcare Consulting Director
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Eric Riley

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DRIVING SUCCESS, TOGETHER

Dean Dorton helps transform accounting for major Kentucky medical group

Struggling with a legacy accounting system from the 1980s, Lexington Clinic needed to modernize, fast. Dean Dorton implemented Sage Intacct to automate accounts payable and drive efficiencies organization-wide.

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Payer Planning Services

Dean Dorton’s Payer Planning Services are at the forefront of transforming healthcare practices by providing comprehensive solutions tailored to the unique financial and operational challenges of the industry. Through our dedicated services, we’ve empowered healthcare groups to enhance care delivery with a keen focus on Risk Adjustment Factor Scores (RAF) and diagnosis coding analysis, leading to a robust Medicare Advantage payer contracting model.

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WHY DEAN DORTON?

A Trusted Healthcare Advisory Firm

As trusted advisors to healthcare providers nationwide, we specialize in enhancing revenue cycle management, improving operations, and navigating regulatory changes. Above all, our solutions are designed to allow health systems and physicians to optimize care delivery. Leveraging data and technology, we bring innovative and effective solutions to assist clients in overcoming healthcare’s biggest challenges.

We provide a full suite of advisory and outsourced services from initial setup through succession planning, giving you time to focus solely on the demands impacting clinical and leadership duties. Our specialists work alongside your team, learning the nuances of each situation, identifying objectives and challenges, providing executive insight, and building relationships to ensure success every step of the way.

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