Louis Pavia has 30+ years of business and consulting experience. His expertise in management consulting includes strategic business planning, financial analysis, and market and financial feasibility studies. He has special skills in developing and implementing creative business strategies for healthcare organizations, including service line strategies, capacity configuration and utilization, senior care strategies, physician-hospital ventures and clinical performance improvement strategies.

Mr. Pavia has directed and participated in numerous consulting engagements for hospitals, systems and other healthcare organizations, as well as for private sector corporations. Mr. Pavia has been involved in designing and structuring innovative physician recruitment and physician – hospital integration strategies. These have included physician manpower analysis, recruitment strategies, joint ventures, cooperative arrangements, MSOs, PHOs, clinical institutes and joint development companies. Clients include Wadley Regional Medical Center in Texas, Columbus Children’s Hospital in Ohio, BJC Missouri Baptist and Good Samaritan in Arizona and Southern Ocean County Hospital in New Jersey.

Mr. Pavia has designed creative strategies for managed care organizations including new product design, new business development, new market entry, demonstration project participation, and mergers and acquisitions. Clients include Independence Blue Cross, Touchpoint, Southeastern Indiana Healthcare Organization, Health Net, and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Delaware.

Mr. Pavia’s clinical services planning experience includes developing performance improvement strategies; conducting feasibility studies of the viability of developing specific programs and specialty facilities; determining collaborative opportunities for clinical services; and facilitating clinical services integration. His clients in this arena include ProHealth Care and ThedaCare in Wisconsin; Trinity-Mother Frances Health System and Scott & White in Texas; and VA VISN9 in Tennessee.

In addition, he has directed and participated in numerous strategic planning, linkage and network design and governance and leadership development engagements. Specific clients with whom Mr. Pavia has worked include Memorial Health System in Texas; Meridian Health in NJ, Columbus Regional Hospital and St. Vincent Hospitals in Indiana; Cleveland Clinic Health System in Ohio; Sutter Health in California and Sentara Health in Virginia.

Mr. Pavia is frequently called upon for expert interviews by professional journals and has been extensively quoted in publications such as Hospitals & Health Networks, Health Care Strategic Management and Managed Care Outlook. His published articles include “Becoming a Great Healthcare Organization” for The Healthcare Market Strategist, “Filling the Quality Gap”, Strategic Prophecy” and “21st Century Competition” for Health Care Strategic Management, and “Partnering — The Ultimate Alliance,” for Healthcare Forum Journal. He also co-authored “Managed Healthcare: Delivery Systems, Strategies, and Techniques,” a chapter in the book Making Managed Healthcare Work: A Practical Guide to Strategies and Solutions, published by McGraw-Hill.