Nathan Kleinman, Phd Email & Phone Number

Paso Robles, California, United States

My work included:--Leading the implementation of Verisk risk models for use in patient stratification and risk adjustment at xG Health and Geisinger. Training xG Health and Geisinger staff to use risk scores.--Helping improve xG’s algorithm for targeting patients to various care management programs using predictive risk models and other available data.--Improving and documenting the methodology used to evaluate xG Health/Geisinger care management and care redesign efforts and evaluated the results of three hospital system clients.--Leading the analytic evaluation of several Geisinger ProvenCare patient care processes using EHR data and helping prepare results for manuscript publication.--Comparing risk scoring results from different vendors and determining the differences in member quantity and characteristics that would result from switching from one vendor to the other.--Performing drug class evaluation and redefinition for medication adherence dashboard. --Improving efficiency of repeated evaluations.

Large Employer Market-Analytic consultant responsibilities for multiple large employers including Walgreens, Cisco, USAA, and others. -Responsible for overseeing and reviewing analytic projects, communicating results and providing decision support to employers.-Helped design a new health insurance model with a primary care & medical home focus, health savings accounts, and physician primary care incentives for Wyoming uninsured, low-income employees. Implemented as a pilot program by the state.-Designed, directed, and participated in internal research projects to study the impacts of economic incentives on new health insurance models. -Helped create the Blueprint for Health web-based tool used by ACOEM and employers to model the impacts of disease on cost, absence, and productivity (http://www.acoem.org/hpblueprint.aspx).Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research Market-Responsible for writing proposals and pricing and selling econometric research projects. Clients included Pfizer, Abbott, AstraZeneca, Eisai, Janssen, Biogen Idec, Schering, Centocor, Sunovion, and others.-Designed, project-managed, participated in, and reviewed all analytic research work. Provided decision support to clients on all research projects. Responsible for project quality.-Research included health and absence costs associated with disease, adherence to medication regimens, and the impact of medication adherence on health and absence costs. -Statistical techniques included two-part regression models (logistic and generalized linear models), survival models, multinomial logit models, time series, cluster analysis, etc. -Coauthored and published more than 35 peer-reviewed manuscripts and more than 70 conference presentations.-Reviewer for journals including JOEM, AJMC, and PharmacoEconomics.Staff Management-Responsibilities for staff resourcing, project assignment, performance reviews, and hiring/termination.-Trained analysts to use SAS and SQL and to provide client decision support.

Cheyenne, Wyoming Area

-Managed group of 6-8 analysts, including hiring/termination participation, staff reviews, project assignment, project review, and training.-Created reports to monitor the profitability of all OCI employer contracts (included Federal Express, Verizon, America Online, HCA, Wal-Mart, Costco, GlaxoSmithKline, Dell, and others). -Account manager for America Online, Wal-Mart, and GlaxoSmithKline contracts.-Designed and performed multiple regression analyses predicting the cost impact of several proposed client benefit policy changes.-Responsible for designing, pricing, producing, reviewing, and delivering analyses of client integrated health and productivity information using econometric and statistical modeling. -Techniques included panel data, logistic, survival, time series, and linear models. -Maintained integrated health and productivity research database containing person-centric health benefits information for more than 3 million employees and dependents.

Ph.D., Mathematical Sciences

B.S., Mathematics