Nathan Kaufman is Managing Director of Kaufman Strategic Advisors. With over 40 years of experience as a strategist, executive, and negotiator, Nate is considered one of the nation’s most experienced industry experts. He is a strategic advisor to healthcare executives, boards, physician groups, and other healthcare companies. He is known for his practical advice focusing on succeeding in the new post-ACA, MACRA, value-based- risk environment. In addition, he is a seasoned negotiator and has successfully completed hundreds of transactions involving payer contracts, physician compensation, service line development, acquisition/sale of surgicenters and imaging centers, restructuring employed physician groups, and developing clinically integrated networks. This provides Nate with a unique viewpoint since he not only studies industry trends but operates in the ‘trenches’ giving which provides a deep understanding of the physicians’ perspective.

Nate is frequently a keynote speaker and facilitates board and management retreats. Given his deep understanding of physicians and payers, he will challenge the industry’s conventional wisdom when he believes that it is not supported by evidence and/or it will not be embraced by practicing physicians. While his clients may not always agree with his perspective, they appreciate that Nate challenges them so that they will consider different points of view. Nate knows that health systems hunger for realistic strategies (both short-term and long-term) that are financially feasible and will be supported by the majority of their practicing physicians.

Nate is a noted author contributing over 76 articles to healthcare literature. His education credentials include an MS in Health Systems from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a BS in Psychology from Emory University. Listed in Modern Healthcare’s Class of 1987 Up & Comers of Rising Young Healthcare Management Talent.