Mario Almeida is the executive director of patient services for Anne Bates Leach Eye Center at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute where he is responsible for planning, directing and managing the daily operations and resources of the Patient Access, front end revenue cycle business operations, utilization review, surgical coordination, on-site insurance verification and patient relations including all practice based clinics and satellites.

In 2006, Mario came to Bascom Palmer from the Tenet Healthcare System where he served as director of patient access at North Shore Medical Center from 2002-2006. From 1990-2000 Mario held different management roles at Cedars Medical Center in the Patient Access Department. He was then promoted in 2000 to director of patient access at The Miami Heart Institute and subsequently transitioned to direct the patient access team at The Mount Sinai Medical Center from 2000-2002.