Cathy focuses primarily on health insurance and managed care consulting. Her clients include Blue Cross/Blue Shield plans, HMOs, commercial insurers, healthcare providers, educational institutions, and pharmaceutical companies. Cathy also works with Medicare and Medicaid programs.

Cathy's experience includes assisting clients with pricing, benefit plan design, cost projections, risk analysis, and claim liability estimates. She helps clients with reimbursement and incentive system development, including capitation, pay for performance, and other incentive arrangements. Cathy also assists clients with their regulatory filings and experience analysis.

Cathy's recent consulting assignments have included:

• Pricing of a preferred provider organization (PPO) plan for an HMO
• Development of a case rate/risk sharing payment methodology for a group of hospitals
• Analysis of actual to expected claim costs for a provider organization
• Examination of disease incidence and drug use
• Review and appraisal of a health plan
• Premium development for the student health plan of an educational institution
• Development of a prescription drug risk sharing arrangement for a pharmaceutical company
• Dual Eligible Medicare Advantage Part D Special Needs Plan premium filing