Dr. Peter Kongstvedt is a highly regarded independent national authority on the health care industry with particular expertise in health insurance and managed health care. He is a Senior Health Policy Faculty Member in the Department of Health Administration and Policy, School of Health and Human Sciences at George Mason University, where he teaches a graduate course on the topic of Health Insurance and Managed Health Care. Dr. Kongstvedt also is principal of the P.R. Kongstvedt Company, LLC, a firm advising health care executives on strategy, operations and effective decision making.
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Peter is also the editor and primary author of three seminal works on managed care: The Managed Health Care Handbook, which he first wrote in 1985, with the fourth and final edition of this landmark textbook being published in 2001; The Essentials of Managed Health Care, Sixth Edition (April 2012); and Managed Care: What It Is and How it Works, Third Edition (2008). These books are widely considered "the bibles" on managed care and are extensively used in over 230 colleges and universities nationwide, in corporate training and educational programs, and as a general reference book within the healthcare industry. He also co-authored Best Practices in Medical Management with David Plocher, M.D. in 1998.
He recently founded Kongstvedt Learning Solutions, LLC to provide online multimedia employee training program called "Understanding the Basics of Health Insurance and Managed Care," a two course program designed to provide learners with a solid grounding in the fundamentals of what the industry is, the environment in which it exists, and how it works at an operational level.
Peter began his career by practicing general internal medicine in rural southern Illinois at a rural health initiative clinic. After practicing for three years, he moved to Lincoln, Nebraska to be the medical director of a medical group associated with a group-model health maintenance organization. Soon after, he also became its chief executive officer.
He continued his successful career as an executive in the managed health care industry, assuming increasingly responsible positions through 1993 when he held the position of executive vice president and chief operating officer at Blue Cross Blue Shield of the National Capital Area in Washington, DC. In that same year, he became a direct-admit partner at Ernst & Young LLP, and continued his consulting career with global firms CapGemini and Accenture until the fall of 2008 when he formed the P.R. Kongstvedt Company, LLC. He then founded Kongstvedt Learning Solutions, LLC in 2011.
Peter is a regular speaker at industry and trade group conferences as well as health care companies. He is also a frequent contributor to publications and the media, has appeared on PBS and CNN as well as local media, and during the debate over health reform, consulted to and appeared on The CBS Evening News, and appeared on the Today Show on NBC.
Originally from the Midwest, Peter resides in McLean, VA with his wife Emily and his two stepsons Aaron and Benjamin. His oldest son, David, graduated in 2010 with high honors from Wesleyan University's film studies program, and he now resides in Los Angeles, CA.
He recently founded Kongstvedt Learning Solutions, LLC to provide online multimedia employee training program called "Understanding the Basics of Health Insurance and Managed Care," a two course program designed to provide learners with a solid grounding in the fundamentals of what the industry is, the environment in which it exists, and how it works at an operational level.
Peter began his career by practicing general internal medicine in rural southern Illinois at a rural health initiative clinic. After practicing for three years, he moved to Lincoln, Nebraska to be the medical director of a medical group associated with a group-model health maintenance organization. Soon after, he also became its chief executive officer.
He continued his successful career as an executive in the managed health care industry, assuming increasingly responsible positions through 1993 when he held the position of executive vice president and chief operating officer at Blue Cross Blue Shield of the National Capital Area in Washington, DC. In that same year, he became a direct-admit partner at Ernst & Young LLP, and continued his consulting career with global firms CapGemini and Accenture until the fall of 2008 when he formed the P.R. Kongstvedt Company, LLC. He then founded Kongstvedt Learning Solutions, LLC in 2011.
Peter is a regular speaker at industry and trade group conferences as well as health care companies. He is also a frequent contributor to publications and the media, has appeared on PBS and CNN as well as local media, and during the debate over health reform, consulted to and appeared on The CBS Evening News, and appeared on the Today Show on NBC.
Originally from the Midwest, Peter resides in McLean, VA with his wife Emily and his two stepsons Aaron and Benjamin. His oldest son, David, graduated in 2010 with high honors from Wesleyan University's film studies program, and he now resides in Los Angeles, CA.
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