Michael Abrams
Michael Abrams is co-founder and Managing Partner of Numerof & Associates. Over the last 25 years he has built a portfolio of strategy and business performance successes as an internal and external consultant to Fortune 500 corporations.
Leveraging the corporate management experience he acquired prior to founding Numerof, Michael has shaped the development of Numerof’s approach, including the firm’s emphasis on innovative and realistic strategies for changing markets, as well as rigor in managing the complex change necessary for improving organizational performance.
Michael completed his doctoral work in business policy at St. Louis University, received his MA from George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and co-authored Bringing Value to Healthcare: Practical Steps for Getting to a Market-Based Model. He has also contributed articles to more than a dozen leading business journals.
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Hospitals, MedCity Influencers, Legal
A myopic approach to merger regulation fails consumers instead of protecting them
Consolidated healthcare systems – even cross market systems – don’t have to raise their prices to have anticompetitive effects. They can leverage their size by using the volume of their purchases to extract discounts and other concessions from payers, national suppliers, and from labor pools.
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Devices & Diagnostics, MedCity Influencers
GE’s spinout of GE Healthcare: Better late than never
The spinoff, however late, promises to make investments in GE more pure plays, which investors find easier to understand and to value. But for GE Healthcare, the real growth will be in less acute settings, and GE needs to acknowledge that trend in their strategy.
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Payer’s Place: Dawn Maroney
Dawn Maroney, President, Markets of Alignment Health and CEO of Alignment Health Plan, to discuss how they are using technology to provide better service and care to consumers.
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Hospitals, MedCity Influencers, Opinion, Legal, Payers
Regulators get it right in Optum-Change case, a proper target for antitrust enforcement
In both word and action, the Biden administration has ushered in an aggressive new era […]
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MedCity Influencers, Opinion, Legal
A ban on surprise bills is just a Band-Aid
Until Medicare and commercial insurers link the reimbursement they pay providers to the things that matter to us as consumers and citizens, we will continue to have a dysfunctional system that abides appalling practices like surprise billing, and continue to spend time on band-aids like this interim final rule instead of fixing the real problem.
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Applying Remote Patient Monitoring to Surgery Prep and Recovery, Oncology and Women’s Health
Join us to learn about the latest trends in remote monitoring and how to extend its benefits beyond chronic conditions to more patients – all while using fewer staff resources.
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Payer’s Place: Dr. Anil Singh
Dr. Anil Singh shares his insights into the strategies employed by the organization to identify the most effective digital solutions for their members.
