Wren brings nearly 20 years of healthcare strategy and management consulting experience and is a nationally recognized expert on payor strategy. His expertise spans traditional fee-for-service managed care contracting, as well as value-based payment arrangements. Additionally, Wren has experience advising clients on payment and delivery redesign efforts, such as population health management strategies and public endeavors. In recent years, he has led projects focused on promoting health equity through payment and delivery system innovations to enable critical services addressing health-related social needs. In addition, Wren has deep experience with transforming revenue and population health operating models to prepare for and optimize shared risk payment models. Through this advisory work, Wren empowers healthcare providers to embrace the challenges of value-based care, fostering an environment where quality and financial sustainability will coexist. At Huron Consulting Group, Wren leads the Managed Care team, and supports clients with revenue strategy, as well as other matters pertaining to achieving optimal performance in finance and business operations.
Wren Keber, managing partner at Cardinal Consulting Group, a Los Angeles healthcare consulting firm, says payers, providers, and public officials are all starting to realize the value that addressing SDoH carries in improving physical and mental health outcomes. “For Medicare Advantage plans, rebate dollars fund supplemental benefits, so the idea is that SDoH services will fold into plan supplemental benefits for 2020,” says Keber. “There is an increasing body of evidence that managing social determinants of health for an at-risk or rising-risk population can result in improved quality and financial outcomes.”
https://www.managedhealthcareexecutive.com/view/medicare-advantage-plans-covering-more-sdoh-benefits
Cardinal Consulting Group Managing Partner Wren Keber spoke with The Orange County Register regarding pricing fluctuations, availability and procurement confusion related to PPE, specifically N95 masks. “There’s been a fair amount of confusion nationally, not just in California, about ‘who’s on first’ when it comes to procuring those resources,” Mr. Keber said. he goes on to say, “In today’s environment, a price list is null and void. It’s a matter of free-market working its magic.”
https://www.cardinalcg.com/keber-quoted-in-the-orange-county-register-on-n95-mask-availability-and-price/