Mr. Berger has 39 years of healthcare financial management experience. He holds a Bachelors of Science degree in History and a Master of Science in Accounting from the State University of New York at Binghamton.

He is a CPA, a Fellow of the Healthcare Financial Management Association (FHFMA) where he has served as President of the First Illinois Chapter.  Steven Berger also served a three-year term on the HFMA’s National Board of Examiners and was recently the Regional Executive of Region 7 of the HFMA.  He is also a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE).

In addition, over the past several years Steven Berger has presented many healthcare finance related seminars throughout the United States and Canada including several two-day classes such as Fundamentals of Healthcare Financial Management, Turning Data into Useful Information and Hospital Financial Management for the Non-Financial Manager.

He has also co-written articles on healthcare information systems that were published in Healthcare Financial Management magazine, including a February 2007 Award-winning article on Treating Technology as a Luxury – Ten Necessary Tools, an August 2004 Award-winning article on the Ten Ways to Improve Cost Management in Hospital, an April 2002 management column and a February 2000 commentary in Modern Healthcare on the lack of training in the healthcare industry. His most HFM article was published in August 2012, titled, Back to the Basics: 5 Ways to Pick Low-Hanging Fruit.

Additionally, Steven Berger is the author of “Fundamentals of Healthcare Financial Management,” originally published in 1999 by McGraw-Hill and the Healthcare Financial Management Association.  This book was written from a practitioners point of view and is a distillation of Mr. Berger’s many years on the inside of healthcare institutions.

Steven Berger works with the Burroughs Healthcare Consulting Network on healthcare financial management issues.