Venanzio (Venny) Arquilla

Venanzio leads the Kaufman Hall Revenue & Operations Improvement (ROI) practice. He has over 30 years of experience in serving clients in the healthcare industry as well as other industries in both the public and private sectors and is a recognized and proven leader in clinical documentation, revenue cycle, nonlabor and hospital operations consulting for the U.S. healthcare provider market. He has deep experience in assisting clients with strategy development, revenue cycle, executive coaching, enterprise wide cost reduction, payer strategy, quality improvement and hospital profiling.

Venanzio also has extensive experience in healthcare performance improvement consulting, including work in clinical documentation improvement, turnaround, working capital management, strategic sourcing, hospital operations and more. Venanzio has led teams that have helped realize over $4 billion in annual financial impact to clients. He is a recognized expert in clinical documentation integrity, strategic sourcing and has spoken extensively, been quoted, and made television and radio appearances on the topics of healthcare clinical documentation and other areas of the revenue cycle.

Before joining Kaufman Hall, Venanzio was a founder of Claro Healthcare and The Claro Group. He was also a Managing Director at BearingPoint, leading its global strategic sourcing and procurement and healthcare clinical documentation practices. Previously, he was a partner at Arthur Andersen Business Consulting where he led the North American strategic sourcing and healthcare clinical documentation practices. Venanzio has built high-performing consulting teams from the ground up for the past 30 plus years.

Venanzio holds a bachelor’s degree in accountancy from the University of Illinois and serves on the board of directors of a Chicago-area health system.