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CENTER FOR

Healthy Aging & Advanced Illness

At Healthsperien, we believe every person, regardless of age, health status, or circumstance, deserves care that is compassionate, connected, and centered on their needs.

The Center for Healthy Aging & Advanced Illness is dedicated to transforming how health and social systems improve the quality of life throughout the care continuum and for individuals living with complex care needs or advanced illness.

Our work spans policy, research, care/payment model design, and advocacy to improve access to quality hospice and palliative care, strengthen community services integration, and address the growing public health crisis of social isolation and loneliness.

Our Focus areas

Complex Care & Advanced Illness

Advancing models that ensure high-quality, coordinated care for those with serious and chronic conditions.

Hospice & Palliative Care

Integrating comfort-focused, person-centered services across the care continuum.

Community Services Integration

Advancing models that ensure high-quality, coordinated care for those with serious and chronic conditions.

Social Isolation & Loneliness

Developing and scaling interventions to strengthen human connection and well-being.

Aging in Place

Enabling systems of care that empower patients to choose where they receive their care to best support engagement in their activities of daily living. 

Our Approach

We bring together diverse stakeholders—providers, consumers, employers, caregivers, advocates, researchers, community leaders, policymakers—to drive systems change. Through evidence-based strategies and innovative partnerships, we aim to create sustainable solutions that improve quality of life and preserve dignity for those facing some of life’s most challenging health journeys.

Reach out to learn more about our work and join us in shaping a future where aging and advanced illness care are equitable, person-centered, and deeply connected to community.

Resources

Policy Prescriptions Episode 4: Patrick J. Kennedy: Why America’s Future Depends on Brain Health

In this episode of Policy Prescriptions, host Gary Jacobs sits down with Patrick J. Kennedy and Healthsperien founder Tom Koutsoumpas to discuss why America’s future depends on protecting the health of our brains.

Policy Prescriptions Episode 3: Value-Based Care Explained | The Future of ACOs, Medicare & Healthcare Policy

In this episode of Policy Prescriptions, Gary Jacobs sits down with Aisha Pittman, Senior Vice President of Government Affairs at National Association of ACOs, and Ray Quintero, Managing Partner at Healthsperien, for a deep conversation about the future of healthcare policy, Medicare reform, and accountable care organizations (ACOs). They break down how value-based care works, why fee-for-service medicine creates problems, and how new models like ACO LEAD are reshaping the health care system.

Policy Prescriptions Episode 2: From Isolation to Connection: The Policy Fix We’re Missing | SXSW Live

In this episode of Policy Prescriptions, Gary Jacobs sits down with health care policy leaders Andrew MacPherson and Tom Koutsoumpas to break down what lobbying actually is, how it works, and why most people misunderstand it.

Key Takeaways from AHIP’s 2026 Medicare, Medicaid, Duals and Commercial Markets Forum

CMS recently released a letter to State Medicaid Directors that provides implementation guidance for the requirement that states redetermine eligibility for Medicaid expansion adults every six months instead of annually, beginning in 2027.

Policy Prescriptions Episode 1: The Truth About Lobbying in Washington

In this episode of Policy Prescriptions, Gary Jacobs sits down with health care policy leaders Andrew MacPherson and Tom Koutsoumpas to break down what lobbying actually is, how it works, and why most people misunderstand it.

Employer Experiences Managing Prescription Drug Benefits and Partnerships with PBMs

Client Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA) Dates November 2025 –

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Healthsperien, LLC, is a Washington, D.C.-based health care policy consulting firm focused on strategic, regulatory, legislative and implementation issues.

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