LAWRENCE T. MORRISSEY

Lawrence T. Morrissey has over two decades of experience in the health care industry.

His experience includes the development of major national hospital, ancillary and physician networks for a major PPO network taking it from embryonic stage to the nation’s largest independent nationally recognized PPO.

While specializing in contract negotiation, strategic development and managed care contract reviews, Mr. Morrissey also developed cost containment and income retention strategies, including the purchase of multiple PPO networks and development of multiple state based fee schedules.

In addition Mr. Morrissey has extensive, hands on medical billings & claims review experience, including but not limited to the negotiation and settlement of multi-million dollar hospital claims, in-house review of medical claims for PPO's, and claims settlement.

KAREN MORRISSEY

Karen Morrissey is consultant who specializes in both corporate and the non-profit sector.  Her eclectic career accomplishments started as a legal assistant in Washington, D.C. at two of the country’s top law firms, specializing in the areas of immigration, corporate and litigation law. Additional accomplishments in her early career in include work with a major international development corporation which developed Ritz Carlton hotels and international properties.

While serving as the Southeastern Regional Vice President of Practitioner Operations for the nation’s largest PPO, she was responsible for the development of physician networks in fourteen states, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.  Offering a rare blend of creative and operational strengths, her significant impact on profitability and growth for the organization led her to pursue her most creative and noteworthy venture to date.

In 2002, Ms. Morrissey founded Shoes for the Soul, Inc., a non-profit organization, whose mission is dedicated to placing a new pair of shoes on the feet of needy children and youth. 

Since launching the organization, Karen’s grassroots initiatives have led to partnerships with major national shoe corporations and the distribution of over 65,000 pairs of new shoes via social workers to over 200 social service agencies, public schools, homeless shelters, community based hospital organizations and other nonprofits serving children.  The organization has donated new shoes internationally to Jamaica, The Republic of the Congo and Ghana, as well as to the needy of Hurricane Katrina.