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CENTER FOR

Patient-Centered Transformation

At Healthsperien, we believe care works best when it is built around individuals: their needs, goals, and lived experiences.

The Center for Patient-Centered Transformation helps organizations bring innovative, patient-focused solutions to the market in ways that are scalable, sustainable, and aligned with evolving payment and policy landscapes.

We work across the health innovation ecosystem that encompasses technology companies, care delivery vendors, investors, employers, and payers to design solutions that improve outcomes, enhance patient experience, and operate effectively in real-world systems of care.

Our Focus Areas

Market & Policy Readiness

Assessing and validating market fit for patient-centered models including home-based, virtual, maternal/child, serious illness, and behavioral health solutions.

Value-Based Payment & Reimbursement Strategy

Navigating Medicare Advantage, Medicaid managed care, employer-sponsored coverage, and alternative payment models that support adoption and scale.

Commercialization & Go-to-Market Strategy

Building strategies that align outcomes, equity, and ROI while positioning organizations for long-term success and responsible growth.

Technology, Data & Interoperability

Operationalizing scalable infrastructure to include interoperability, data governance, analytics, and performance measures that demonstrate real impact.

Our Approach

We partner with organizations at every stage of innovation: early concept, market entry, rapid growth, and model refinement. Our team integrates policy expertise, payment design, operational insight, and market strategy to help stakeholders navigate complexity and scale patient-centered solutions responsibly.

Through collaborative design, evidence-driven analysis, and hands-on support, we help partners deliver care models that improve patient experience, drive measurable outcomes, and strengthen systems of care.

Reach out to learn more about how we can support your work and help bring patient-centered innovation to life across diverse communities and care settings.

Reach out for more information at info@healthsperien.com

Resources

The Hospice Landscape Has Shifted. Public Data Hasn’t Caught Up.

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.

Healthsperien Welcomes Two Accomplished Health System Experts to Lead Policy, Strategic Partnerships, and Philanthropy

Healthsperien is pleased to welcome Karen Rubel, Chief Philanthropy & Strategic Partnerships Officer, and Laura Wooster, MPH, Senior Vice President, to our growing team of health care policy and strategy experts.

Andrew MacPherson: A Bipartisan Prescription for Cutting $1 Trillion in Health Care Waste

Healthsperien Founding Principal and Managing Partner, Andrew MacPherson, outlines a bipartisan path to making healthcare more affordable by tackling the nearly $1 trillion in waste embedded in the U.S. health care system each year.

Policy Prescriptions Episode 5: The Doctor Advising HHS on America’s Healthcare Future | Dr. Clive Fields

Dr. Clive Fields — co-founder of VillageMD and Chair of the MAHA workgroup on the HHS/CMS Healthcare Advisory Committee — joins the Zen Lobbyist, Gary Jacobs and Tom Koutsoumpas, Founder and President of Healthsperien, to go inside the commission shaping U.S. healthcare policy. They cover the structure of the 16-member advisory committee, why end-of-life conversations fail patients, the case for the collaborative care model in mental health, rural healthcare access, deprescribing, and what it will take to scale value-based primary care nationally.

Modernizing the Medicare Hospice Benefit: An Idea Whose Time Has Come

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.

Medicaid Community Engagement Requirements: Five Things That Will Define Implementation

On June 1, 2026, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the long-anticipated Interim Final Rule (IFR) on Medicaid Community Engagement Requirements (CER). This IFR constitutes one of the most significant modifications to the Medicaid program since the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and ranks among the most substantial Medicaid regulations in years.

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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.