Executive Change: Two Appointed at ACF Medical Services

Roanoke, Va.-based ACF Medical Services, Inc., a premier purchaser and manager of healthcare receivables and a subsidiary of Atlantic Credit & Finance, Inc., has appointed William Pryse as vice president, portfolio acquisitions, responsible for directing the company’s new business development efforts and working with its hospital clients to uncover solutions to improve their revenue cycle.  Pryse will report to Daryl Deke, executive vice president and principal and will be based at the company’s Roanoke headquarters.

Additionally, the company announced that it has promoted Sherry L. Jordan to vice president, healthcare recovery operations.  Jordan is responsible developing patient payment programs and directing the company’s overall recovery process. Jordan will continue to report to Kelly Woolwine, president.

“Collectively, Bill and Sherry bring more than 35 years of healthcare industry experience to ACF Medical Services and they are very adept at finding ways to improve the revenue cycle for our clients,” Deke said.

For instance, Deke noted that among his other accomplishments, Pryse has an established track record as an advisor to hospital finance executives and for evaluating an institution’s financial performance.

“Bill is very adept at working with healthcare systems to find new revenues streams, thereby enhancing their ability to provide better and broader service to their patients,” Deke added.

Prior to joining ACF Medical Services, Pryse served as senior sales representative Cordis Cardiology, responsible for selling a number of core products including Cypher.  He also had held senior-level positions with medical and pharmaceutical corporations, including Novare Surgical, Medtronic and Boston Scientific.

Pryse received his bachelor’s degree in history from Lincoln Memorial University and the University of Tennessee.

Meanwhile, Jordan was promoted to vice president from director, recovery operations. Deke noted that Jordan’s recovery operations experience has played a key role in developing a patient-sensitive recovery platform … thereby actually improving patient relations for each of the company’s healthcare organization clients.

Prior to joining ACF Medical Services in 2005, Jordan served as senior collections manager at Duke University Health System, a not-for-profit teaching facility. While at Duke, Jordan managed all patient accounting, billing and collection functions and facilitated all community hospital revenue cycle processes.

Prior to Duke University Health System, Jordan was a collections manager for Allegheny Regional Hospital (an HCA facility), responsible for government and non-government accounts and directing all patient account, billing and collection functions.

Jordan holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and psychology from Emory and Henry College in Emory, Va.