Our Team

Kevin Nelson is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of LKN Strategies where he leads the organization’s healthcare business management strategies and operations. Kevin is a multifaceted healthcare executive and entrepreneur with extensive leadership, service line management, clinical operations, revenue cycle management (RCM), surgeon recruitment, ambulatory surgery center management, payer and provider marketing, and hospital executive management experience. Throughout his 20-plus years in healthcare, Kevin has developed a thorough understanding of the entire managed care and payer/provider ecosystem. Prior to developing and launching LKN Strategies RCM services in 2018, Kevin was the owner/operator of a multi-specialty surgery center in Los Angeles where he gained firsthand knowledge and experience with the ever-growing challenges healthcare providers face in the US today. In addition to running his surgery center business, Kevin launched LKN Strategies’ consulting services where he was engaged in many projects for healthcare businesses throughout Los Angeles that included developing a hospital spine co-management program for Cedars Sinai, leading growth strategies for a large surgery center management and billing company. He launched a personal injury RCM management company, and he led the development of a leading spine outpatient center of excellence in Beverly Hills, CA. Prior to his entrepreneurial endeavors, Kevin worked for an LA-based Private Equity company where was an operator and served in an administrative and business role at their hospital, specializing in spine, orthopedics, and minimally invasive surgery that was later acquired by Cedars Sinai. He also spent 10 years developing large-scale reimbursement support operations and managed care strategy for 2 Fortune 500 biotech companies. Kevin received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Montana and his AAPC Professional Coder Certification in 2005. He also completed executive management courses at the UCLA Anderson School of Executive Management and the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Executive Education Program.