David Kaplan

David Kaplan has over 15 years of healthcare experience. His expertise centers around faculty practice management and operations, revenue cycle, and strategic service and quality re-engineering. David has a proven track record of obtaining successful results throughout his career. Currently, he is the Administrator for Mount Sinai Medical Center’s Department of Surgery, where he has helped to increase the overall revenue of the department by 43%, recruited over 23 new faculty members, and has implemented an innovative faculty practice operational model. In addition, he led a $5M initiative to construct and open a Department and Faculty Practice owned Ambulatory Surgery Center. David has also served as Vice President of Hospital Operations at Stony Brook University Medical Center where he was responsible for eight different departments with a combined operating budget of $106M. David increased the combined profit of these departments by over 58% within two years. He also was responsible for a $150M capital improvement project for the Emergency Department. Prior to Stony Brook, David spent time as the Administrator for Cardiology at NYU Medical Center, with an $85M operating budget. In this role he improved the overall revenue cycle performance by 21%, and led a project to build a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary cardiovascular wing to better serve the patients. Before joining NYU, David spent nearly four years as an Associate Consultant for CSC Healthcare Group (formerly APM) where he worked with major Academic Medical Centers nationally on projects related to faculty practice re-design, physician compensation, revenue cycle re-design, cost containment efforts, and governance. David also spent four years as an Administrator within the New York Presbyterian Network. Where he was an Administrator of Pediatric GI, an Ambulatory Practice Administrator, and spent time as a strategic consultant for the Network’s Management Service Organization (MSO). 

David is a nationally recognized speaker regarding faculty practice operations, revenue cycle, and physician compensation. He has written several published case studies, and is also a member of the Association for Academic Surgical Administrators.

Mr. Kaplan earned a Masters of Public Administration, with a concentration in Health Policy and Administration from the Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service at New York University.  He also received a BA in Political Science from Syracuse University.

Areas of Expertise

Finance

Health Management

Health Policy

Leadership

Politics