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  Professional Services

  Peter’s extensive executive experience, consulting background, and comprehensive knowledge and understanding of managed health care position him to provide seasoned strategic counsel to senior executives and boards seeking to improve strategic decision making and operational performance. He is also well positioned to provide expert counsel in legal cases involving the health insurance and payer industry.

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  Professional Speaking

  Peter is a frequent speaker at health-related industry and trade group conferences, as well as to health care companies of all types. His extensive knowledge of the key issues and trends, coupled with his wit and humor, give audiences enhanced understanding of the topics at hand, and the ability to apply what they’ve heard to their own work.

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  Industry Education and Training

  Peter is currently co-developing training and educational programs focusing separately on the pharmaceutical sector and on the payer & provider sectors. Differing from his highly popular books, these programs utilize an online multimedia format for both facilitated and self-learning. These programs are expected to become available in early 2010.

Dr. Peter Kongstvedt is a highly regarded national authority on the health care industry with particular expertise in health insurance and managed health care. Principal of the P.R. Kongstvedt Company, LLC, Dr. Kongstvedt advises health care executives on strategy, operations and effective decision-making to optimize business outcomes. Dr. Kongstvedt is also a Senior Health Policy Faculty Member in the Department of Health Administration and Policy at George Mason University.

Dr. Kongstvedt’s unique business expertise comes from the varied roles he has performed over his 30-year career. Prior to his most recent career as partner and senior executive in global consulting firms, Dr. Kongstvedt led premier health plans, as well as managed care and health insurance organizations. His roots as a practicing physician give him first-hand understanding of the totality of the health care profession.

Renowned as the primary author and editor of “the bibles of managed care,” Dr. Kongstvedt’s books are used by more than 230 graduate and undergraduate health administration & policy programs. Published by Jones & Bartlett, these books include: The Essentials of Managed Health Care, 5th Edition. (2007), and Managed Care: What it Is and How it Works, 3rd Edition (2008).

A licensed physician, a board-certified internist and a Fellow in the American College of Physicians, Dr. Kongstvedt received his BS and MD degrees at the University of Wisconsin, where he also completed his internal medicine residency.

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