FTI Consulting's Center for Healthcare Economics and Policy & Strategic Communications Collaboration Brochure

At a time when healthcare organizations face unprecedented challenges and pressures to reduce spending while expanding access to care, demonstrating consumer value is critical to engaging effectively in high-stakes debates.

The Center for Healthcare Economics and Policy applies cutting-edge economics and quantitative methods to assess the impact of innovations, interventions and policy reforms on the healthcare system and key stakeholders. We customize our advanced modeling and economic analytical capabilities using extensive proprietary and public data, regulatory and policy expertise, and industry experience to generate unique insights and data points that shape the narrative around complex issues.

Working with FTI Consulting’s experts in public affairs and strategic communications, our interdisciplinary healthcare policy team produces economic analyses that provides the basis for compelling evidence-based analysis and strategies set out in white papers, issue briefs, infographics and other content designed to have maximum impact in addressing critical client issues and influencing the healthcare policy debate.

We Specialize in Solutions

Economic Modeling
Legislative and Regulatory Impact Analyses
Population Health Projections
Demand Forecasts
Competitive Assessments
Pricing Reviews
Economic Impact Studies
Issue Monitoring
Policy Mapping

How We Communicate Results

White Papers
Issue Briefs
Infographics
Expert Panels
Advocacy Campaigns
Thought Leadership
Media Relations
Stakeholder Engagement

Our Approach

Healthcare economics is the application of economic theory and methods to determine how best to meet the healthcare needs of a population while providing greater value. Employing economic analysis to influence policy outcomes also requires a deep understanding of the politics, policy and stakeholder dynamics. We consider each of these angles to ensure that clients are armed with the most effective content and data to influence key decisionmakers. FTI’s interdisciplinary health policy team combines rigorous economic analysis with policy expertise and political intelligence to generate compelling, evidence-based content.

Healthcare Policy Analysis
The pace of change in healthcare is unlike any other industry. In a rapidly evolving legislative and regulatory environment, healthcare organizations must act swiftly to evaluate the impact of new policies and communicate the effects to policymakers. In evaluating policy proposals at the federal and state levels, FTI Consulting’s economists work alongside our experts in public affairs to help clients identify research questions and methodologies that will generate the most relevant and impactful insights. FTI’s interdisciplinary team bridges the gap between public policy and strategic communications to synthesize and communicate findings for a range of stakeholders.

Competition and Market Dynamics
Our economic analyses, supported by economic and industry research and advanced modeling, enables clients to make informed decisions on business strategies that impact market and competitive dynamics via market restructuring and consolidation/divestitures.

Modeling & Transformation
Because providers, insurers, and governments operate in a dynamic and complex healthcare environment, sound predictions require more complex modeling than many analysts can provide. The Center’s models are customized for every application and can include as many interdependent factors as are necessary to produce reliable estimates. Our communications team can message complex model outcomes for stakeholders to influence strategic change and policy.

Health Economics and Outcomes Research & Market Access
Center economists have expertise generating state-of-the-art health economics & outcomes research (HEOR) evidence to support life science products’ commercialization. FTI combines unparalleled expertise in life sciences with the ability to distill analytical findings and communicate the value of our clients’ innovation to diverse stakeholder audiences.

Public Affairs and Government Relations Support
Getting things done in today’s political environment requires strategic engagement, experienced coalition-builders, and an in-depth knowledge of state and federal legislative processes. We design, execute and implement Public Affairs and Government Relations strategies – in Washington, D.C. and with partners in state capitals around the country – to build momentum, create favorable regulatory environments, or raise concerns about controversial and unproven policies.

Strategic & Management Consulting
Center economists bring advanced analytics and industry expertise to help clients solve their most pressing challenges – current and future demand, optimizing or reconfiguring system assets, and assessing outcomes and benefits from change. Our rigorous, proactive analyses of investments in technologies or facilities or changes in services or capacity help identify strategic choices, regulatory risks, and benefits and determine economic, market and care delivery impact.

Opinion Research
From strategic planning and audience research to evaluating communication effectiveness, our team of industry experts helps clients better understand, leverage, and measure the dynamics driving reputation and decision-making. FTI’s team of experts in opinion research has deep subject matter expertise in healthcare policy, enabling us to construct surveys and other research tools to serve myriad purposes, whether informing stakeholder engagement strategies or creating new data points to support a client’s messaging, market and care delivery impact.

The Industry Leader in Healthcare Economics and Policy.

Combining evidence-based healthcare economics with effective stakeholder engagement, healthcare economics is the application of empirical techniques and analytical theory to questions concerning how best to provide healthcare services to meet the needs of a population. Employing economic analysis to influence policy outcomes requires a deep understanding of the politics, policy and stakeholder dynamics. FTI’s interdisciplinary health policy team combines rigorous economic analysis with policy expertise and political intelligence to generate compelling, evidence-based content.

FTI Consulting professionals experts include Ph.D. economists with specialized health economics expertise across many applications with private and public sector experience, supported by analytic consultants and expert modelers, as well as experts in public policy with extensive experience serving in state and federal government. We benefit from an Advisory Board of industry leaders and the ability to draw on practitioners and professionals from across FTI’s strong multi-disciplinary practices. Our public affairs team provides high-level experience advising senior decisionmakers with appropriate and effective messaging of evidence-based supporting analyses.

Headquartered in Washington, D.C. with offices in every major center of government — from Brussels to Beijing — FTI Consulting offers specialized expertise and global reach.