Yuri Karev is a Vice President with nearly a decade of Revenue Cycle Management experience – with a particular focus on denial prevention. He has experience across all facets of the Revenue Cycle: from implementing front-end solutions to improving back-end collections.
Prior to joining Accordion, Yuri served as a Manager at Pinnacle Healthcare Advisors where he focused in Utilization Management from documenting current-state workflows, creating several new reporting capabilities, improving existing flows for Peer-to-Peer Denials as well as Clinical Appeals, and identifying new denial prevention strategies.
Before Pinnacle Healthcare Advisors, he was an associate at Alvarez & Marsal where he gained experience in Dental – working with an expanding network of clinics to shore up their Revenue Cycle practice. He also assisted on several Revenue Cycle assessments with a wide array of tasks from Zero Balance Reporting to encounter sampling. In his time at Huron, Yuri worked on Revenue Cycle Tool implementations (both front-end and back-end) for large hospital systems and Epic Optimization in the Ambulatory space.
Yuri has a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he was also an avid club tennis player.