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Advancing the Life Sciences with expertise from all aspects of healthcare

Your organization’s success relies on understanding evolving market dynamics and navigating a complex statutory and regulatory environment. Drug, device, and diagnostic firms, from established to start-up, come to HMA when they want experienced partners who can help with regulatory strategy, coding, coverage, and payment solutions, investment strategy, navigating the complexities of federal and state law, or even creating new policy. HMA, working with our partner companies, provides consulting with depth and breadth throughout the life sciences sector and the broader healthcare industry.

We work with drug, device, and diagnostic companies and their trade associations, pharmacies, physician specialty societies, hospitals, health systems, and community health centers, as well as investment firms and their portfolio companies.

Before joining HMA, our team spent years as senior officials in Medicare and Medicaid; cabinet-level health secretaries; and policy advisors to governors and other elected officials. They also served as directors of large nonprofit and social services organizations, top-level advisors, and C-level executives. Our team is expert in federal and state policy, reimbursement, actuarial consulting, medical coding support, public affairs, and corporate development.

Our Life Sciences team, comprised of experts across our firm, can help with:

We help you navigate the complexities of FDA regulation to help with product development and marketing authorization strategies and regulation throughout the product lifecycle. 

Regulatory policy counseling

Product development and target product profile

FDA authorization strategy

Post-approval compliance  

Contact our FDA Experts:

Clay Alspach, Principal, Leavitt Partners
Ralph Hall, Principal, Leavitt Partners
Eric Marshall, Principal, Leavitt Partners
Amy Rick, Principal, Leavitt Partners
Vince Ventimiglia, CEO, Leavitt Partners Collaborative Advocates

We help your organization understand the commercial market for life sciences products and develop strategies to support patient access, product launches and growth, and value.

Market intelligence, including market, customer, and stakeholder analysis

Strategic planning, considering risk-based contracting, value-based care, and population health

Business development and strategy

Formulary and market access insights

Go-to-market and launch strategies

Contact our Commercial Experts:

Jeremy Bahr, VP, Client Relations, HMA
David Kulick, Managing Director, The Focus Group
Spencer Morrison, Associate Principal, Leavitt Partners
Rebecca Nielsen, Managing Director, Leavitt Partners
Alex Rich, Managing Director, The Focus Group

Experts in Medicare, Medicaid, and the commercial market, we help you understand and navigate the complexities of coding, coverage, and payment for approved products and develop and execute strategies to support product access and value.

Code assessment and recommendation

Coverage mapping and guidance

Payment strategy across settings

CMS engagement

Emerging technology strategies

Alternative payment model (APM) development

Payment change impact modeling

Contact our Reimbursement Experts:

Amy Bassano, Managing Director, Medicare, HMA
Mark Desmarais, Principal, The Moran Company
Charlene Frizzera, Advisor, Leavitt Partners
Zach Gaumer, Principal, HMA
Kevin Kirby, Managing Director, The Moran Company
Rachel Kramer, Principal, The Moran Company
Anne Marie Lauterbach, Principal, Leavitt Partners
Clare Mamerow, Principal, The Moran Company

We help you understand how evolving State policy impacts your business and develop strategies to support product access and value in Medicaid programs.

State-related access issues

State policy impact modeling

State research support

Contact our State Experts:

Clay Alspach, Principal, Leavitt Partners
Anne Marie Lauterbach, Principal, Leavitt Partners
Stephen Palmer, Managing Principal, HMA
Matt Powers, Managing Director, HMA
Josh Trent, Managing Principal, Leavitt Partners

We work with investment firms and their portfolio companies to provide insight that helps you invest wisely in the rapidly evolving healthcare marketplace.

Comprehensive due diligence studies

In-depth research projects

Billing and compliance reviews

Identification, analysis, and outlook on federal, state, and local reimbursement/regulatory issues

Contact our Investment Strategy Experts:

David Kulick, Managing Director, The Focus Group
Greg Nersessian, Managing Director, HMA
Alex Rich, Managing Director, The Focus Group

Project Spotlight

Pipeline research and policy recommendations to address new innovative therapies

A large national pharmaceutical manufacturer hired HMA, The Moran Company, and Leavitt Partners, both HMA subsidiaries, to assess the current pipeline of innovative therapies, examine current reimbursement policies to assess long-term compatibility with the adoption of innovative therapies and novel delivery mechanisms, and make policy recommendations to address any challenges identified through the process.