Danny Denton

Background

About Danny Denton

A dedicated healthcare administrator with over 20 years of experience in a variety of challenging and diverse assignments; consistently improved productivity while reducing costs. A vibrant and proven leader, garners support at all levels to achieve mission goals. •Increased access to care saving $219K in network care costs with a reduction in ER and Urgent Care clinic utilization by 57%. •Implemented several performance improvement initiatives that increased third party collections by $34K in a five month period, reduced active duty dental plan expenditures by $41K in just the first two months. •In charge of over 150 personnel at a Naval Branch Health Clinic. Saved 18% in ER care that would have been purchased in the civilian network and 14% in Urgent Care saving $78K in just six months. •Introduced initiatives to non-medical command leadership to decrease the number of patient no-shows. As a result, the rate was reduced by 50% and medical readiness was realized. •Represented the command on an alternative dispute resolution, negotiated with civilian personnel of behalf of the hospital resulted in a win-win outcome and prevented a claim of approximately $25-30K. •Instrumental in the management of a $40B healthcare contract for the Department of Defense East region which is comprised of 139 medical facilities and 6.2M beneficiaries. •Optimized $346M in care that is purchased outside of military medical facilities for over 389K patients through data analysis resulting in a $43M cost avoidance. •While deployed to Kuwait, directed shipments of $250K of durable equipment/consumables to the medical command in Kandahar, Bahrain and other theaters increasing their operational capabilities. •Managed the budget for three dynamic directorates at a large medical command with a combined total of over $46M finished in the black, contributing to the command in achieving a 99% obligation rate.