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Our Services

We specialize in combining health system behavioral health strategy, operational and financial performance improvement, and care management principles in designing and implementing programs for behavioral health providers to improve the health status of high risk behavioral health patient populations and reduce total cost of care. Our care management models can reduce utilization and health care expenditures, and improve population health. We identify strategic and performance improvement opportunities and partner with clients implement integrated plans to reduce utilization and improve health outcomes with a goal to reduce acute behavioral health episodes, particularly for the high risk behavioral health population with comorbid physical health issues.

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Strategic Planning

Develop plans to improve market position, obtain additional federal and state funding, and forge integrated regional partnerships to improve care management across the continuum to improve health outcomes and reduce overall cost of care.

2

Program Performance and Financial Improvement

Identify and implement cost management policies and procedures designed to instill a culture of accountability, resulting in operational and financial improvement

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Interim Management

Serve as interim leadership at academic medical centers, community hospital programs and freestanding behavioral health centers to implement lasting improvements to quality and safety. 

About Us

Randall Autry, CEO, has more than 30 years of experience serving in senior leadership and consulting roles in the health care industry, including strategy, business development, operations management and performance improvement, integrated behavioral and physical health roles and consulting engagements. Specializing in leadership of programs and engagements within the behavioral health industry, Randall brings a unique set of skills to behavioral health organizations. He has led behavioral health consulting engagements for freestanding behavioral health hospitals, multi-hospital health systems, large academic medical centers and state owned and operated psychiatric hospitals, and has served as senior executive in behavioral health related strategic and operations roles. Specific accomplishments include:

  • Engaged as full-time interim CFO for one year at a 220-bed state psychiatric hospital in the Arkansas. Oversaw a finance department of 12 individuals, reduced non-facility maintenance and salary related operating expenses by 3% over the course of the one-year engagement, assisted in rate renegotiation with Medicaid MCOs, and led performance improvement initiatives related to hospital revenue cycle, supply chain management, and financial reporting to state government authorities. Implemented electronic controls for obtaining required approvals for all purchase orders.

  • Developed a strategic growth and performance improvement plan for a California academic medical center’s behavioral health enterprise designed to improve financial performance, develop subspecialty destination programs, and prepare existing programs for a planned move to a newly constructed physical plant in the Bay Area. Reorganized the programs’ financial statements to improve reporting of true profit/loss on a monthly basis. 

  • Developed a plan for a California academic medical center to provide outpatient behavioral health services to employees and families of a group of large regional employers based on a shared risk population health strategy.

  • Served as CEO of a women's only mindfulness based weight management retreat

    • Increased revenues by 12.8% year-over-year from 2014-2115

    • Oversaw Certificate of Need Process to obtain approval to develop an outpatient eating disorders treatment center that opened in November 2015 designed to provide women the option of a higher level of clinical and therapeutic care than the organization had previously offered.

  • ​Reporting to the board of directors, served as CEO at an 85-bed inpatient psychiatric hospital that served children, adolescents, and young adults with acute psychiatric illness. 

Select Client List

Arkansas State Psychiatric Hospital

UCSF Health, San Francisco, CA

Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

Presence Health, IL

Maryville Scott Nolan Hospital, Des Plaines, IL

Blue Sea Capital, Private Equity Firm, West Palm Beach, FL

MyCare Chicago, Chicago, IL

Skyterra Fitness and Weight Loss Resort, Pisgah Forest, NC

Green Mountain at Fox Run, Ludlow, VT

Contact Us

Autry Behavioral Health Care Consulting

683 County Line Road

Highland Park, IL 60035

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