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2009 Managed Care Conference and Trade Show
October 20 - 22 of 2009
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Allan Baumgarten
Independent Analyst and Author, Texas Health Market Review
Allan Baumgarten is an independent research consultant whose work focuses on health care policy, finance and local market strategies. He is the author of Texas Health Market Review, a nationally recognized annual report analyzing key trends and issues in that market, first published in 1998. He also publishes annual Health Market Reviews in ten other states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin.
He works with a variety of organizations to help them analyze the market competition and policy issues they face and to develop business strategies to meet the challenges of dynamic markets and health reform. His clients include health plans, provider organizations, government agencies and manufacturers of pharmaceuticals and other health products and services.
He has presented his research to numerous local and national meetings, including Academy Health, the Association of Health Care Journalists, National Managed Health Care Congress, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and IIR and Global Business Research seminars. He has published articles in Minnesota Medicine, Health System Leader and Managed Care Quarterly examining tiered network strategies for HMOs and providers, direct contracting between employers and providers, the usefulness of health plan report cards and the debate over for-profit versus nonprofit ownership of America’s health systems.
From 1988 to 1993, Mr. Baumgarten was Associate Director of the Citizens League, a nonprofit public policy research, education and advocacy organization in Minneapolis-St. Paul. He directed the League’s unique program of citizen-based research, developed special research reports and helped craft and implement the League’s legislative strategies.
From 1979 to 1988, he was Staff Attorney and Program Evaluation Coordinator for the Legislative Auditor’ Office in St. Paul. He directed studies of state agencies and their programs, examining programs such as highway maintenance, Medicaid funded services for persons with disabilities, welfare policy, state computer systems and regulation of HMOs.
He received his J.D. degree from the University of Minnesota Law School and an M.A. from the University of Minnesota Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs.
He has chaired the Jewish Community Foundation of Minneapolis and the Public Policy and Legislation Committee of United Jewish Communities. His past community activities include serving as vice-president for local planning and allocations of the Minneapolis Jewish Federation and secretary of Neighborhood Health Care Network.
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