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Healthcare Reform, Health Insurance, Health IT, and Healthcare Finance

ID: 730883 Massachusetts, USA

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Expert, is President of a management advisory and operational consulting firm focused on the managed care and healthcare delivery industries. A healthcare economist and published author, Expert's specialty is using quantitative techniques to examine issues concerning technology, operations, and firm decision making.

Expert holds a Doctorate and Master's degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied Health Care Management and Economics. He also holds Bachelor's degrees in Management Science and Writing from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Expert is a member of the adjunct faculty of Northeastern University, where he teaches students in the Health Informatics Graduate Program. He additionally serves on the Visiting Faculty of the Employer, where he teaches a post-graduate course on Health IT.

Outside of his consulting and academic work, Expert provides thought leadership through both expert networks and the media. Expert has been featured in over one hundred articles from outlets including JAMA, CNN, Forbes, Fox, Inc., CBS News, NBC News, Reuters, U.S. News and World Report, The Advisory Board, The Christian Science Monitor, Yahoo! Finance, Becker's Hospital Review, Fierce, Healthcare Finance News, HealthLeaders Media, KevinMD, mHIMSS, Modern Healthcare, Minyanville, and Seeking Alpha.

He conducted a survey and focus group to determine levers for improving customer satisfaction, enabling a regional health insurance company to earn a 4-star rating from NCQA.He performed due diligence on a health services supplier to enable an investor to decide whether their profit was derived from legitimate activities or fraud.He helped a regional payer develop a retail strategy for the individual and small group markets, ending a three year trend in declining enrollment.He advised an external consulting firm on mobile health’s current and potential impact on population health management.He examined county-level medical loss ratios, market share, and broker commission agreements to enable a national payer to better understand the determinants of its performance.

Education

Year Degree Subject Institution
Year: 2011 Degree: Ph.D. Subject: Health Care Management & Economics Institution: The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Year: 2008 Degree: M.A. Subject: Health Care Management & Economics Institution: The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Year: 2006 Degree: S.B. Subject: Management Science Institution: MIT
Year: 2006 Degree: S.B. Subject: Writing Institution: MIT

Work History

Years Employer Title Department
Years: 2013 to Present Employer: Undisclosed Title: Visiting Faculty Department: Information Systems
Responsibilities:
Expert has taught a course on the management of Health IT to post-graduate (MBA) students at the Employer. The case-based course takes an international perspective.
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 2012 to Present Employer: Undisclosed Title: President Department: n/a
Responsibilities:
Developed new business. Served clients in the managed care and healthcare provider industries. Conducted analyses, held interviews, published articles in peer-reviewed journals, and advised leaders about potential strategies.
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 2012 to Present Employer: Undisclosed Title: Part-Time Lecturer Department: Health Informatics Graduate Program
Responsibilities:
Expert taught "Emerging Technologies in Healthcare" to masters students pursuing a degree in health informatics.
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 2011 to 2012 Employer: Oliver Wyman Title: Associate Department: Health & Life Sciences
Responsibilities:
Expert served as a management consultant in a practice addressing the needs of the health insurance, hospital, and pharmaceutical industries. He helped a regional payer develop a strategy for engaging consumers in the individual market post-reform. He also assessed the implications of healthcare reform for small group sales in four states for a national payer.
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 2006 to 2011 Employer: The Wharton School Title: Doctoral Student Department: Health Care Management & Economics
Responsibilities:
Expert provided methodological guidance to Archstone Consulting for the report, “The Biopharmaceutical Sector’s Impact on the U.S. Economy: Analysis at the National, State, and Local Levels”. He also reviewed the literature on the success and failure of firms in order to assist in the legal defense of a medical device firm. He subsequently developed the literature review into a book chapter on the determinants of success and failure in the medical device industry.

Additional Experience

Expert Witness Experience
Expert has consulted for numerous health insurance companies, private equity companies, and consulting firms. His work has primarily dealt with health insurance, healthcare finance, health IT, and healthcare reform.

Career Accomplishments

Associations / Societies
American Heart Association
Publications and Patents Summary
Featured in over 150 healthcare articles. Published in JAMA.

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