PAN Co-Owners & Partners:

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Kristie Garner, CPA

Partner and co-owner of Partner Advisory Network, LLC (PAN)

Kristie brings to PAN over twenty-five years of experience working with the healthcare industry in a variety of settings nation-wide. Throughout her career, Kristie has worked closely with governance and management to help organizations strengthen their internal control environment. Most recently she served as the executive responsible for client service operations and business development for a boutique consulting firm providing value-based healthcare services. Prior to that role, Kristie served as the Chief Audit Executive leading the internal audit department for a health system. There she was a trusted adviser assisting management to improve operational, financial, clinical, and information technology processes and controls.

Following graduation from The University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Business Administration and a Master in Professional Accounting, Kristie started her career as a staff accountant at the hospital where she was born, and soon was promoted to a leadership position in finance for a national healthcare organization. Since then, Kristie has spent the majority of her career dedicated to client service including over fifteen years of public accounting internal audit, corporate compliance, and management consulting experience serving healthcare clients including hospitals, health systems, physician practices and health plans.

She has also served in numerous leadership roles within the Lone Star Chapter of the Healthcare Financial Management Association. Kristie’s experience and her background in internal controls and consulting uniquely position her to help PAN achieve its mission of supporting the healthcare industry by providing internal audit, corporate compliance services, and management consulting services at the right time, in the right place, for the right price.

Andrea Merritt, Ed.D, CHC, CIA, CHCO

Partner and co-owner of Partner Advisory Network, LLC (PAN)

Andrea has been serving the healthcare industry over twenty years working with a variety providers both in-house and on a consulting basis.  Through her experience, Andrea has had the opportunity to build and strengthen compliance programs while also working on a number of specialized projects with hospitals, physician practices, and other types of healthcare providers.   She provides ongoing and interim Compliance Officer services with a specialization in risk assessments, audit and monitoring, and education. 

Andrea is a member of the Health Care Compliance Association and the Institute of Internal Auditors.  She has presented for many professional organizations on compliance effectiveness, compliance investigations, and statistical sampling and auditing.  Andrea has a Doctorate in Education with a focus on adult learning.  She also earned an MBA and BS in Accounting from Wayne State University. Andrea is Certified in Healthcare Compliance through HCCA, a Certified HIPAA Compliance Officer through AIHC, and is a Certified Internal Auditor. 

Andrea brings a wealth of healthcare experience and knowledge in order to help support the mission of PAN while implementing the values to helps strengthen client’s corporate integrity functions and emerge as transformational leaders.

PAN Team Members:

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Faye T. Rogan

Resource support for PAN Consultants to help clients meet goals and objectives in a trusted advisory capacity.  

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Maggie Gambill

Maggie is a health information management professional with over 40 years of experience.

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Beth Bayes

Beth, SHRM-SCP, SPHR is a versatile human resources executive with over 30 years of human capital experience.

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Rebecca Cowan

Rebecca has over 15 years of internal audit, compliance and process improvement experience in a variety of industries including healthcare, logistics and retail.

David Ponder

David Ponder

Technology risk specialist. Partner at Cential. 

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Frank Castronova

Dr. Castronova has been responsible for statistical issues relating to healthcare and provider compliance audits for the past 20 years.

Holly Giammanco

Holly Giammanco

Holly is an accomplished professional with 20 years of experience as an information technology and cybersecurity leader.

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John Mott

John is a Certified Professional Coder and Federal coding auditor and has 30 years of experience in medical compliance.

Sarah Castronova

Sarah Castronova

Sarah is Nurse Practitioner serving as a subject matter expert in clinical documentation and nursing.

Ally Molletti

Ally Molletti

Ally is currently a Senior Compliance Specialist at PAN and is Certified in Healthcare Compliance.

PAN Affiliates:

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IRMC Group is part of a consortium of healthcare service firms based in the Midwest. We specialize in assisting Healthcare organizations in reducing operational and information technology risks. Our firm provides experienced specialists in areas of Technology, Cybersecurity and Audit & Compliance. 

Our clients include large Health Care Systems, Law Firms, and Insurance and Pharmaceutical companies, some of which are Fortune 1000. IRMC group strives to implement best practices through specialized projects that aid our clients in optimizing their operations while strengthening their internal control structure.  Our Healthcare risk management experience spans internal audit augmentation, enterprise-wide risk assessments, security governance implementations, privacy and security services, disaster recovery development and recovery auditing.  We also specialize in risk analysis, compliance assessments, IT general controls and Medical Device audits. 

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Cential helps organizations design, build, and operate efficient and effective compliance and risk management functions.

We help organizations on their journey from siloed governance and compliance to fully integrated risk management programs.