About the founder

I’m Andy
Wilkinson.

I work with healthcare providers on payer contracts, financial strategy, and development. I also build the data infrastructure that helps us understand what the market is paying.

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How I got here

Fifteen years on the provider side.

I led finance and development for four freestanding surgery centers in Massachusetts: 23 operating rooms, three health system partners, and physician investors. My work covered deal negotiations, financing, real estate, and payer contracting.

Before that, I led strategic finance and development for the largest independent regional health system in Massachusetts. The work included expanding inpatient capacity, developing a six-OR off-campus hospital-based surgery center, acquiring physician practices, and serving as project controller for a $200 million IT and EHR implementation.

In consulting, I kept coming back to a practical question: how do our reimbursement rates compare with those of relevant peers? Public price transparency files offered a way to investigate it, but using them meant building a pipeline to process, normalize, and check the data.

I built that pipeline, beginning with individual client questions and then processing national commercial files from UnitedHealthcare and Cigna. Altitude Intelligence brings that analytical work together with the finance and contracting support I provide to clients.

Andy Wilkinson

Background

Education & credentials

Education

  • MS in Analytics
    Georgia Institute of Technology
  • MHA in Finance and Strategy
    University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
  • BS in Biology
    Boston University

Professional credentials

  • Fellow, Healthcare Financial Management Association (FHFMA)
  • HFMA specialty certificates in accounting/finance and managed care

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