Venanzio (Venny) Arquilla

As managing director and practice leader at the consulting and advisory firm Kaufman Hall, a Vizient company, Venny Arquilla leads the Revenue & Operations Improvement (ROI) practice, guiding a team of almost 400 specialists focused on revenue cycle performance, clinical documentation integrity, strategic sourcing and hospital operations improvement.

Arquilla partners with healthcare provider organizations to strengthen financial performance, optimize revenue cycle operations and improve clinical and operational effectiveness to enhance sustainability and long-term performance — delivering enterprise-wide cost reduction, working capital improvement, payer strategy alignment and measurable margin impact. Over the course of his career, he has led teams that have helped clients realize more than $4 billion in annual financial impact.

As a nationally recognized industry leader and trusted advisor to executive teams and boards for more than 30 years, Arquilla has authored thought leadership and led initiatives across clinical documentation improvement, performance turnaround, strategic sourcing and hospital profiling. He is regularly sought out to speak, provide commentary and contribute insights on clinical documentation integrity and revenue cycle transformation, and has been quoted in national media and appeared on television and radio discussing healthcare operations and financial performance.

Prior to joining Kaufman Hall, Arquilla was a founder of Claro Healthcare and The Claro Group. He also served as a managing director at BearingPoint, where he led the firm’s global strategic sourcing and procurement and healthcare clinical documentation practices. Earlier in his career, he was a partner at Arthur Andersen Business Consulting, leading the North American strategic sourcing and healthcare clinical documentation practices. Throughout his career, he has built high-performing consulting teams from the ground up.

Arquilla holds a bachelor of science in accountancy from the University of Illinois and serves on the board of directors of a Chicago-area health system.