Capitalize on Big Data and Analytics

Organizations looking for investment, expansion, or private equity opportunities in health care can benefit from big data and analytics to discover opportunities for creating value. Whether you’re a private equity firm looking for potential acquisitions or a physical therapy group hoping to acquire additional doctors and clinics, using the right data is critical.

Investors and partners often rely on outdated industry reports, pages of graphs and charts, and speculation due to a lack of reliable, timely data. Fortunately, real-time prescriptive and predictive analytics tools exist and can help identify the true value of market opportunities.

Active in the field since 1994, Karl offers financial and operational consulting to health care clients. He leverages his deep expertise in provider operations and finance, strategic business planning, and capitation arrangements to assist hospitals, physician organizations, health plans, and management services organizations as they strive to succeed in the current environment. He has experience with service line assessments, turnarounds, feasibility studies, development of capitation models, and negotiation and analysis of managed care contracts. Prior to joining Moss Adams, Karl served in senior management positions in hospitals as well as physician organizations.

Jeff has over 20 years of experience in technology, innovation, and analytics. By providing insight to health care providers, he enables them to better understand and predict changes in the market in order to execute their vision with greater success. Before his passion for start-ups led him to found Expression Health Analytics, he spent years launching new businesses or leading strategy and growth at existing ones. As senior vice president of eVariant, he focused on product and platform innovation for the health care customer management platform and oversaw analytics data warehousing, predictive analytics, marketing automation, and claims-based physician referral solutions. He also served as national director of health care market innovation at Ricoh US Healthcare.

Paul has over 12 years experience providing reimbursement consulting and business assurance services to health care providers in acute and post-acute settings throughout the western US. He is well-versed in Medicare and Medicaid cost report preparation, assisting clients during third-party audits, formulating appeals of audit issues in connection with cost reports, and assisting hospitals/health systems, sole community hospitals, critical access hospitals, rural health clinics, and federally qualified health centers with billing and reimbursement issues. He continually explores the role of the Medicare cost report and claims data in the DRG and APC rate setting processes and Medicare cost report data-mining and benchmarking. Paul is a frequent presenter for health care trade and lobbying groups. His topics range from federal and state regulatory updates to facilitating discussions between hospital leadership and their board’s on strategic financial and reimbursement related issues.