John Harris combines consulting expertise with a hands-on management background. He has founded a healthcare business, run facilities and consulted to hospitals and health systems, hospices, home health companies, PHOs, IPAs, managed care organizations, PACE programs and conversion foundations.

John's work for clients has included:

Advising on strategic issues

Facilitating planning retreats

Financial performance modeling in support of strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions, and new business development

Negotiating risk sharing, pay-for-performance and fee-for-service contracts

Developing business plans for new ventures, including physician-hospital joint ventures, ambulatory surgery centers, ambulatory care facilities, and managed care organizations

Assisting hospitals with medical staff development strategies

Operations evaluation and reengineering

Providing expert opinions on healthcare business arrangements

Harris's extensive experience includes founding Advance Choice, Inc., a national service providing emergency access to advance medical directives. He has had senior operational responsibility in healthcare facilities. John has also been a health policy fellow for the US Senate's Finance Committee, and a research associate at APM, Inc., management consultants.

John frequently presents on healthcare strategy and financing. He holds a BA from Dartmouth College and an MBA in Healthcare Management from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.