Griselle Chernys

Griselle Chernys is an American healthcare administrator and entrepreneur. She is the founder, president and CEO of PayerFusion Holdings and WellAway Limited.

Life and career

Chernys was born in Cuba and then moved to Miami, Florida with her family at a younger age. She holds a masters in Health Administration and a Doctorate in Public Health. As a young woman starting her career in the 1980s in South Florida. She was a member of the senior management team at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach, Florida. During her 17 year tenure at Mount Sinai, she served as director of the business office, director of international marketing, executive director for physician practices, and vice president of physician services. She created and served as executive director of Right Choice Management Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of Mount Sinai which was a management services organization that created satellite facilities, diagnostic centers and physician, practices throughout South Florida from North Miami Dade to the Keys. Chernys also contributed to developing program specifications and the installation of automated claim processing technologies that were implemented during her tenure there. She developed an HMO plan for domestic medicaid clients and an international insurance product that was distributed to affluent individuals in Latin America and the Caribbean and generated more than 80 million in annual revenue in one year. After Mt. Sinai, she started working with Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans in Florida. At Blue Cross, she held various positions in healthcare administration as well as claims administration, audit and utilization management of healthcare plans. She also carried a leading role in Blue Cross’ administration of the Medicare program in the State of Florida. She was also active in policy design, actuarial analysis, HMO development, product development and sales support.

In 2000, Chernys founded HAA Preferred Partners, a Florida based third party administrator servicing the international claims community. She served as its president and CEO until 2007 when she sold HAA to a US division of the AXA Group and was appointed as president of the healthcare division until 2009.

In 2009, she formed PayerFusion corporation in Miami, FL, offering healthcare claims administration and cost containment healthcare payers and groups worldwide. ^[1][2] In 2014, she created WellAway Limited, a health insurance company providing health insurance for expatriates. In 2015, PayerFusion came into a partnership with WellAway Limited to administer its ACA-compliant expatriate health plans. ^[3]

Chernys is a member of the American Medical Association and the American College of Health Care Executives. She has been recognized in Who’s Who of American Women, Who’s Who in the South and Southeast, and The Metropolitan Who’s Who Registry. She serves in the Board of Directors of Baptist Hospital South Florida Foundation and supports the Cardiac Institute and the Children’s Hospital.

Awards and recognition

Chernys has received recognition from the U.S. presidential administrations for extensive experience in healthcare policy and delivery. In 1993, she served President and Senator Bill Clinton as a member of the committee designing the healthcare reform plan headed by him. In 2004, she received the Woman of the Year Award by the Business Advisory of the National Re- publican Congressional Committee and President George W. Bush. . In 2011, Chernys was nominated for two Stevie Awards. She was a finalist in both the Lifetime Achievement and Best Entrepreneur in Healthcare categories in the 8th annual Stevie Awards for Women in Business. ^[4][5]

In 2015, she was acknowledged by President Barack Obama for her knowledge in healthcare administration issues and reimbursement experience in all aspects of regulatory, administrative and insurance coverage development. ^[6]

References

External links

• Official website