Healthcare Speakers

Nathan Kaufman is Managing Director and founder of Kaufman Strategic Advisors, LLC, an established San Diego-based healthcare consulting company, and Matterhorn Strategic Advisors, a healthcare investment banking firm. With 47 years of experience as a strategist, executive, negotiator, and expert witness. Nate is considered one of the nation’s healthcare 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 results.

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 surgi-centers 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’ which provides him with a deep understanding of healthcare delivery.

Throughout his career, he has held executive positions in a wide range of healthcare companies, including President and Chief Operating Officer of an imaging center company. Mr. Kaufman is a noted consultant, lecturer, and author on topics related to strategies for achieving peak performance, managed care, clinical integration, population health, hospital-physician transactions, and joint ventures. He regularly speaks on these topics and others for numerous health system organizations and healthcare associations throughout the country. Since 1998, he has participated in 44 healthcare arbitration/litigation cases and has contributed over 76 articles to healthcare literature.

Among the clients benefiting from Mr. Kaufman’s unique expertise in healthcare service integration are physician groups, investor-owned and not-for-profit multihospital systems; prestigious dominant medical centers; general medical/surgical hospitals; primary care physicians and specialists; IPAs; national imaging and Surgi center companies; major diagnostic equipment companies; large radiology groups, cardiology groups and medical staff groups; managed care companies; and national and state healthcare associations.

Mr. Kaufman was a lead faculty member for the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE), for which he has developed the following courses: The Art and Science of Competitive Strategy; Advanced Managed Care and Integration Strategies; Restructuring Integration: Essential Strategies for the New Millennium; and Lessons Learned: Innovative Strategies for Achieving Competitive Advantage.

In addition, he holds executive education retreats and has presented at over 95 major conferences and hospital associations as a keynote speaker in 2014, such as the American Hospital Association. Mr. Kaufman wrote the chapters on physician-hospital engagement and clinical integration for the 2011 and 2012 issues of the ACHE publication Futurescan as well as numerous articles published by Trustee Magazine. 

His education credentials include an MS in Health Systems (MSHS) from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a BA in Psychology from Emory University.  Nate was listed in Modern Healthcare’s Class of 1987 Up & Comers of Rising Young Healthcare Management Talent. He serves on various advisory and editorial boards; Executive in Residence and HSI Advisory Board member at Georgia Tech Health Systems Institute.