Business Notes: Canton Resident Named President of Health Care Financial Management Association

The following is a press release:

Roberta S. Zysman of Canton was recently installed as president of the MA-RI Chapter of Healthcare Financial Management Association.

The Association provides professional development, education, information, networking, collaboration and leadership opportunities to members in the field of health care financial management throughout the country.          

HMFA nationally has over 39,000 members and is a respected “thought leader” regarding leading trends and issues facing healthcare finance.  The MA-RI chapter is one of the largest of the 68 Chapters in the Association with over 1250 members.

Zysman comes to this position as an experienced health care executive.  She is currently executive director of the Beth Israel Deaconess Physician Organization, a value-based physician network and managed care services organization affiliated with the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.  In this role, she manages a large network of nearly 1800 physicians.

Previous to this, Ms. Zysman was director of Hospital Relations and Provider Network Services for Harvard Pilgrim Health Care.  She started her health care management career at Mt. Auburn Hospital in Cambridge and holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Boston University.