Healthcare
Center for Healthcare Economics & Policy
Center’s experts apply cutting-edge economics and quantitative methods to develop and implement solutions that address complex issues across healthcare and life sciences industry activity.
Rapid changes in healthcare demand and delivery across business, policy, and regulatory environments create ongoing challenges for clients.
Our advanced capabilities help organizations navigate policy, regulatory, and disruptive shifts across local, national, and global healthcare systems.
We provide predictive modeling to evaluate complex “what if” scenarios for public and private stakeholders across a wide range of contexts. Our multidisciplinary team of Ph.D. economists, analytic consultants, industry experts, and predictive modelers leverages extensive healthcare and industry databases to track utilization, capacity, reimbursement, patient behavior and outcomes, and population health metrics.
Our team brings specialized economic expertise across applications in both the public and private sectors, supported by an advisory board of industry leaders and access to practitioners across FTI Consulting’s multidisciplinary practices.
The Center applies economically sound, evidence-based analytics to complex issues in healthcare delivery and transformation, economic and community impact, competition and regulatory review, disputes, market access, and policy change. We serve corporations, employers, payors, health systems and providers, life sciences companies, government entities, and civic and regional consortia.
Using causal analysis and predictive modeling that accounts for uncertainty and risk, we quantify the effects of actual or proposed changes across the healthcare and life sciences ecosystem. Our international practice combines proven methodologies with locally relevant data to deliver proactive strategies informed by sound economic principles. We help clients develop actionable metrics, assess current and future capacity, evaluate interventions and outcomes, model population health over time, and inform strategic decision-making across local, regional, national, and global environments. Our team provides expert assistance in crafting strategic responses to disruptive market change, proposed policy changes, and agency/regulatory review.
Our solutions
Leading with powerful insights, measurable results and future-ready solutions
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M&A, Antitrust & Competition
Our Economics team brings unique insights and advanced analytics from extensive experience on M&A transactions and competition issues across healthcare, life sciences and other industries in the U.S. and internationally. Expert solutions are offered for complex investigatory, transaction, regulatory and litigation matters. Our economic analyses inform expert testimony in the U.S. and internationally, supported by economic and industry research and advanced modeling, using extensive data sources.
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Disputes
Our team of expert economists provides testimony and privileged consulting across antitrust and competition matters, healthcare and life sciences disputes, consumer protection matters and other complex commercial disputes. We analyze class certification issues, liability, market dynamics, and damages in litigation and arbitration before U.S. courts and arbitration panels and international dispute forums.
Health Economics and Outcomes Research & Market Access
Our Ph.D. economists and industry experts bridge innovation and reimbursement through rigorous HEOR, policy analysis, and market access strategy. We deliver economic modeling, real-world evidence, and patient-centered insights that support pricing, secure coverage, and navigate complex payer environments, translating clinical innovation into reimbursable value in today’s value-based healthcare landscape.
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Policy & Regulation
Healthcare evolves quickly, with policies and regulations continually proposed, implemented, and revised to address access, cost, and quality. Our Ph.D. economists and industry experts project the quantitative impact of current and proposed policy, regulatory change, and major investment in capacity or services using advanced data analytics and modeling, providing public and private stakeholders with clear insight into impacts on needs, patient choice, access, cost, and competitiveness across the U.S. and globally.
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Community & Economic Impact
Businesses within and beyond healthcare play vital roles in the health and prosperity of local communities. Our experts use advanced methods to quantify the economic and community impact of health system activity and investment, combining standardized frameworks with tailored analyses that account for system and regional characteristics. Through cutting-edge modeling and robust data, we measure the burden of poor health and deliver evidence-based strategies to reduce impact and demonstrate measurable return.
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Strategic & Transformational Modeling
We combine advanced analytics, economic rigor, and sector expertise to guide healthcare and life sciences organizations through high-stakes strategic decisions. Our work assesses demand, optimizes assets, and evaluates technology, services, and regulatory change to deliver evidence-based market sizing, profitability, value proposition, and population health insights supporting M&A, private equity diligence, and transformative investment. Using microsimulation modeling, we generate economically grounded forecasts that account for population and economic change.
Our Experts
Multi-disciplinary team composed of Ph.D. Economists, analytic consultants, industry experts, and predictive modelers
Our professionals are acknowledged leaders in their chosen fields, not only for the capabilities, clarity, and understanding they bring to assessing the most complex questions, but for their ability to identify practical, workable answers.
Margaret E. Guerin-Calvert
Senior Managing Director, President, Center for Healthcare Economics and Policy
Susan H. Manning
Senior Managing Director, Chief Operating Officer, Center for Healthcare Economics and Policy
Bryan Perry
Senior Managing Director
Jason Shafrin
Senior Managing Director
Omur Celmanbet
Senior Managing Director
Kristy Piccinini
Managing Director
