Nicole Montanaro, CVA

Director

Nicole Montanaro is a Director with VMG Health in the Compensation Division and is based in the Dallas, Texas office.

She specializes in providing valuation and consulting services for professional services agreements within the healthcare industry, and more specifically, related to the valuation of pay-for-performance arrangements, such as co-management, cost savings initiatives, hospital efficiency improvement programs and other physician alignment initiatives. Her expertise also includes air and ground ambulance/medical transport services agreement valuations related to all levels of service transports including specialty care transports, neonatal intensive care unit transports, and non-emergency medical transport services (wheelchair and stretcher vans).

She also specializes in the valuation of purchased services arrangements, such as administrative and non-clinical management functions, billing and collections, and development/pre-operations services. Specifically, Montanaro’s range of experience encompasses contractual relationships between a number of different types of entities, which include physician organizations, health systems, third party owner/operators, management service organizations, and joint ventures. Additionally, her extensive experience covers a variety of subindustries within the healthcare industry including hospitals (acute care and surgical/specialty), physician practices, ambulatory surgery centers, imaging, radiation and medical oncology, inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation, behavioral health, skilled nursing facilities, pharmacy, and home health/hospice.

Montanaro has spoken at various legal and healthcare organizations and has published articles regarding compensation valuation issues. She is also a member of the American Bar Association’s Healthcare Fraud & Compliance Interest Group, which addresses issues that are the focus of fraud and abuse prevention, investigations, and prosecutions.

Prior to joining VMG Health in 2013, Montanaro began her valuation career working for Hill Schwartz Spilker Keller LLC with a focus on estate, gift, and tax valuation for limited liability companies and family limited partnerships. Prior to that, she earned her Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.

Joel Gomez is a Director in the Capital Asset Services division and is based out of the Nashville office. Gomez has experience providing tangible asset valuation services and consulting for a variety of healthcare clients and law firms. Healthcare clients he has served include valuation engagements for hospitals, physician practices, ambulatory surgery centers, and imaging centers. Additionally, he has experience providing asset valuations related to equipment lease and timeshare arrangements.

Prior to joining VMG Health, Gomez worked for the G. Brint Ryan College of Business at the University of North Texas, and he also graduated from UNT in 2008. Gomez has his Accredited Senior Appraiser (ASA) designation from the American Society of Appraisers.

Patricia Li is a Senior Manager in VMG Health’s Coding, Compliance and Operational Excellence division. Prior to joining VMG Health, Li served as a multi-specialty practice manager and senior administrator in Connecticut and New York. In Li’s 12+ years of experience in healthcare administration and practice management, she has urgently transformed operational workflows, led provider credentialing processes, managed practice expansions, and overseen Electronic Medical Record implementation initiatives.

Many of Li’s clients rely on her human resources management and support, business and financial performance improvement strategies, federal and state compliance management, and provider trainings. She is deeply invested in the mission of VMG Health, not only as an unparalleled service provider, but as an inclusive organization that honors diversity and excellence for women in business.