“I have known no one with a better grasp of what’s going on in Washington than Bob Laszewski—and no one who is more fair, honest, and less partisan.”
—C. Everett
Koop, M.D.
“No one has a greater knowledge of the Washington health policy scene than Bob Laszewski—political, economic, social, and straight merit dimensions. Bob also has uncanny forecasting powers. And he calls the shots exactly as he sees them, unusual for
Washington.”
—John McLaughlin, The McLaughlin Group
Robert Laszewski is president of Health Policy and Strategy Associates, Inc.
(HPSA), a policy and marketplace consulting firm specializing in assisting its
clients through the significant health policy and market change afoot.
Before forming HPSA in 1992, Mr. Laszewski was chief operating officer of a health
and group benefits insurer.
Mr. Laszewski also publishes Health Policy and Marketplace Review, a blog focused
on health care policy and marketplace activities.
Marketplace Activities
The majority of Mr. Laszewski’s time is spent being directly involved in the
marketplace as it comes to grips with the health care cost and quality challenge.
His clients include health insurance companies, casualty insurance companies,
HMOs, Blue Cross organizations, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, and
physician groups.
HPSA has been involved in the development of organized delivery systems, joint
ventures between insurance companies and providers, joint ventures between
HMOs and insurance companies, the acquisition and divestiture of blocks of health
insurance business, the creation of strategies for workers' compensation carriers to
manage their costs in the changing health care delivery market, and the strategic
planning of numerous clients as they come to grips with their response to policy and
market driven change.
Mr. Laszewski is very active in the purchase and divestiture of health care and
insurance businesses having been involved in a number of such transactions in
recent years.
Policymaking Activities
Mr. Laszewski has participated extensively in the nation's health care debate,
especially on health insurance reform and the impact it will have on existing health
insurance programs, the insurance industry, and the evolving role between payers
and providers.
Bob Laszewski has written and spoken widely on the subject of health care reform
and market change. His media appearances include health care features on ABC,
NBC, CNN, PBS, and NPR, as well as on The McLaughlin Group and McLaughlin’s
“One on One.” Additionally, numerous articles about his ideas have appeared in the
national and trade press and he has been regularly quoted in many newspapers
including The Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post.
He has also participated globally having chaired two international meetings
recently in Washington, DC on the issue of international prescription drug pricing
and the use of medical technology in Europe compared to the U.S.
While in the insurance industry, he participated on a number of Health Insurance
Association task forces and committees including: serving as chairman of the
Provider Relations Committee, serving on the Board Task Force on Cost
Containment and on the working group on the ethics of genetic testing and
insurance. He was a founding board member of the bipartisan Alliance for Health
Reform, which included Senators Danforth and Rockefeller as well as a member of
the Board of Overseers of the C. Everett Koop Foundation at Dartmouth and the
Dartmouth Medical School.
His opinions are regularly sought by groups such as the Health Insurance
Association of America, The Global Medical Forum, American Academy of
Orthopedic Surgeons, the American College of Physicians, the American Society of
Internal Medicine, the Council for Health Information Management, and the
International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans (sponsors of the CEBS
designation), as well as other trade associations, state policy makers and regulators,
hospital administrators, and religious groups. He has offered his perspective on
health care reform in testimony before several committees of both the House and
Senate of the U.S. Congress.
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