Rudish Health Leading CFO Search for Presbyterian Medical Group
September 29, 2025 – Boca Raton, FL-headquartered healthcare advisory and talent leadership firm Rudish Health was recently retained by Presbyterian Healthcare Services (PHS) to lead in its search for the inaugural CFO for Presbyterian Medical Group (PMG). As a senior executive of PHS’s provider enterprise, comprising 1,300 employed physicians and advanced practice providers across 50 specialties in five counties, this executive will report directly to the overall system CFO in a new, highly visible role and be included in strategic decisions of the organization.
Key priorities include overseeing financial operations for the medical group and ambulatory business units at 150 sites throughout New Mexico with a focus on ambulatory growth strategy, sustainable margin, budgeting and forecasting, and operating and executive reporting. As a corporate finance partner to the medical group, the PMG CFO will lead in transformational change management to de-fragment and optimize current physician services assets while formulating PHS’s go-forward integrated finance enterprise operations strategy. This leader will have a clear focus on communication and collaboration with health plan leaders and physician leaders across the integrated system to advance PMG priorities in line with health system finance, network member cost of care, and shared services performance.
A bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, business administration or a related field is required, with a master’s degree preferred and a CPA designation also preferred. A minimum of 10 years of progressively responsible experience in financial management and oversight of a physician group in an integrated delivery system setting is required. Most recent experience must be as a financial executive of a physician group with extensive experience with all finance and patient accounting functions.
The candidate must possess strong management skills and the ability to oversee and manage a complex budget process necessary to achieve high financial expectations. The individual understands both healthcare and physician practice industry trends and dynamics and will work closely with the PHS finance team and department managers to identify opportunities for expense reduction and revenue enhancements. Epic experience is preferred, as is provider-based billing experience. Experience with the economics of an integrated delivery system and risk-based/value-aligned physician models, while not required, is a plus.
Rudish Health provides major health systems, health plans, professional services firms, private equity, venture capital, and emerging growth companies with strategic advisory and talent leadership solutions. The firm can also help emergent companies define their growth strategies and cultivate market connections.
Rudish Health was founded in 2014 by Russ Rudish, and Jessica Rudish now manages the firm’s team of healthcare experts. Mr. Rudish has more than 30 years of industry experience and has deep and enduring relationships with major healthcare organizations in the United States and abroad. He co-founded Rudish Health in 2014 with a mission to help healthcare clients in every way he could. Today, that includes helping clients with executive search, professional search, interim management, recruiting automation, hospital acquisitions and joint ventures, IT, live medical interpreter services, credentialing, and other consultative services. Rudish Health also assists emerging companies with strategy and growth initiatives.
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Ms. Rudish has 15+ years of experience serving healthcare providers, health plans, and other healthcare ecosystem players. At Rudish Health, she oversees all executive search and interim management assignments. She also guides venture clients through strategic planning and business acquisition. Prior to joining Rudish Health Solutions, Ms. Rudish was a senior manager at Deloitte Consulting, where she served healthcare provider and health plan clients, delivering both strategy and operations engagements.
The Market for CFOs
The market for senior finance executives remains candidate-centric and brisk, according to Andy Miller, CEO of BrainWorks. “While public discussion of macroeconomic conditions continues to hint at inflation and recession, finance professionals remain fully employed and heavily engaged,” he said. “Among the finance executives, CFOs and business unit financial officers remain in high demand, both to provide oversight for portfolio companies in the PE space and to engage newly created business units by expanding public companies. Tax talent has been in demand for many years and is increasingly scarce. Global and complex tax guidance and leadership, including managers, directors, and analysts remain essential in the proliferation of business strategies. Also engaged at high volume over the last 12 months are controllers, analysts, and FP&A professionals.”
The Evolving Role of the CFO
Given the speed at which market conditions, business strategies, and operational structures have changed in recent years, businesses are more aware than ever of the crucial role the chief financial officer plays in shaping and driving a company’s strategic direction. A just-released report by BoardEx of “The Role of the CFO 2022” examines more than 1,400 CFOs who lead major publicly traded companies across 16 countries around the world. Let’s take a closer look.
At the sector level, geopolitical uncertainty, legislative uncertainty, and uncertainty regarding interest rates, inflation, and the potential for recession create sector-level challenges. While forecasting is fraught with uncertainty, BrainWorks believes that inflation has peaked and that recession is largely a lagging story at this point. “Given the degree of uncertainty in the world, any assessment of what financial services will face in the future is at best educated guessing,” said Mr. Miller. “That said, the challenge of securing top talent, the sufficiency of talent in the marketplace, the rate of change between currencies, tax implications of selected business strategies and the proper filing of documents in support of such strategies, accurate forecasting, analytics, and planning will all remain needful in the sector.”
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Contributed by Scott A. Scanlon, Editor-in-Chief and Dale M. Zupsansky, Executive Editor – Hunt Scanlon Media
