Ashutosh Pandey · notes from the field

Teaching the work, to the person one step behind.

Revenue cycle and healthcare-IT training, shaped by 250+ practitioners taught over twenty years — and by the conviction that understanding how a system works matters more than the latest tool that runs on top of it.

The most useful teacher, I've found, is rarely the world expert. It is the person one step ahead — close enough to still remember what it felt like one step behind. That is the posture I bring to every session.

What follows is a sketch of the training I offer. The specifics are always tailored to the team in the room — a floor of new analysts needs something different from a leadership group rethinking its operating model — so treat this as a starting point for a conversation, not a fixed catalog.

What I teach.

Track 01 — Revenue Cycle Foundations
How the money actually moves.

From registration and eligibility through charge capture, claim submission, denials, and reconciliation — the full revenue cycle taught as one connected system, not a set of disconnected desks. For new analysts, operators, and the cross-functional partners who need to speak the language.

Track 02 — Healthcare IT & the EHR
Where operations meet the system.

How an EHR, a clearinghouse, a Charge Description Master, and a data warehouse fit together — and where revenue leaks when they don't. Grounded in real builds, including a school-based EHR designed from a blueprint for 120,000 students.

Track 03 — Process Excellence
Seeing the work as a flow of value.

The frameworks that still sit underneath every diagnosis I run: the Input–Output model, Six Sigma's war on variance, and Value Stream Mapping. Less about certifications, more about learning to see where value gets lost — and how to get it back.

Track 04 — Analytics & the Self-Taught Toolkit
From spreadsheet to system.

The progression I lived myself — nested formulas, INDEX/MATCH, pivot logic, then relational data design and the frontend-to-backend contract. For operators who want to stop waiting on the reporting team and start answering their own questions.

Domain knowledge cannot be replaced by AI. But it can be amplified by it — if you understand both well enough to know which is doing the work. — a principle I repeat often

How it works.

Sessions run as workshops, small-group cohorts, or one-on-one coaching, in person or remote. Most engagements begin with a short conversation about where the team actually is and what's getting in its way — because the best curriculum is the one built from the real queue, not a generic syllabus.

If any of this is adjacent to what your team needs, the connect column has the means to start a conversation.