Angela Lynne Simmons, CPA, is the vice president of revenue and reimbursement at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. A Texas CPA, she brings more than 30 years of experience in healthcare operations and finance, and public accounting for healthcare entities. Simmons has expertise in healthcare policy, reimbursement principles from government programs (Medicare and Medicaid), as well as healthcare financial analysis and cost accounting. Much of her focus throughout her career has been on pursing revenue opportunities through improving hospital operations and through Medicare filings and appeals. Prior to relocating to Vanderbilt, she was the director of clinical revenue and reimbursement for U.T. M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, where she was responsible for Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, cost accounting, revenue and rate-setting, financial analysis, and clinical decision support reporting