Daniel Dickeson

Executive Summary

Daniel Dickeson is a certified CFO and strategic financial operator with more than 15 years of experience driving financial performance, revenue integrity, and operational discipline across healthcare and multi-site clinical organizations. He partners directly with ownership and leadership teams to bring immediate clarity to cash flow, collections, clinician productivity, and margin performance while installing the structure required for predictable, scalable growth.

Healthcare Financial Leadership

Daniel functions as a plug-in CFO for healthcare operators who need stronger financial control without building internal infrastructure. His focus is aligning clinical operations with financial outcomes through KPI-driven reporting, revenue cycle discipline, and real-time visibility into performance. He builds executive dashboards, rolling forecasts, and accountability systems that allow leadership teams to move from reactive decision-making to structured, data-driven execution.

Revenue Integrity and Throughput Optimization

Daniel has delivered measurable improvements across physical therapy and outpatient healthcare environments by focusing on throughput, scheduling discipline, and revenue capture. His work has increased contribution margin per visit by 32%, reduced cancellation and no-show rates from 34% to 14% within 90 days, and improved provider utilization from 62% to 83%. He has also increased visits per provider by 38%, driving significant revenue growth without adding headcount.

On the revenue cycle side, he reduced Days in AR from 58 to 34 days, improved clean claim submission rates to 96%, and strengthened front-end eligibility processes to eliminate downstream leakage and stabilize cash flow.

Financial Stabilization and Cash Flow Control

In mental health and behavioral health settings, Daniel has transformed underperforming financial systems into structured, predictable environments. He increased net collection rates from 78% to 96%, reduced claim denial rates from 18% to 6%, and improved clinician productivity by 27% through KPI-driven scheduling and operational alignment.

He also implemented 13-week rolling cash forecasts, giving leadership clear forward visibility and reducing short-term liquidity risk to near zero, allowing operators to make confident decisions with control over cash positioning.

Financial Operations and Leadership Integration

Daniel brings full CFO-level leadership across financial planning and analysis, forecasting, revenue cycle management, and operational reporting. He is known for installing disciplined reporting structures that connect clinical activity, staffing, and payer mix directly to financial performance, giving ownership and leadership teams a clear line of sight into profitability, efficiency, and growth capacity.

Strategic Impact

Daniel consistently converts healthcare organizations from reactive, cash-constrained operations into structured, high-performance environments with strong revenue capture, disciplined execution, and predictable cash flow. His work enables providers and ownership groups to scale with control while protecting margins in labor-intensive, reimbursement-driven businesses.

Daniel currently works with a limited number of companies introduced through Obsidian Thorne. To request an introduction or discuss availability, please use the contact form on this page.