Director
Macro Helix Inc.
Atlanta, GA
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Andrew Maurer has assisted clients in the healthcare industry with operational and financial challenges for eight years. His experience spans physician practice groups, rural and small community hospitals, academic medical centers, and specialty providers focused on single disease states. Andrew holds both a Bachelors degree in finance and a Masters of Business Administration from Emory University.
Andrew is responsible for providing advisory services to pharmacy providers ranging from single disease specialty pharmacies to the largest academic medical centers. His expertise includes various facets of pharmacy ranging from business-line strategy development to operational and financial performance improvement initiatives. Over the past six years, Andrew and the professionals he has overseen have assisted over 130 organizations reduce costs, increase revenues, and achieve operating efficiencies. Examples of Andy’s work include:
- Recovery of $2.1mm in over payments to drug vendors for a 550 bed academic medical center;
- Development and implementation of customized 340B tracking software for hospitals ranging in size from 30 bed rural institutions to 600 bed academic centers;
- Business development planning and service line growth plan creation for a specialty mail order pharmacy;
- Creation of a retail pharmacy strategy including assistance in the design and operational structure of the individual pharmacy sites for a five hospital system;
- Attorney-client privileged review of drug procurement and billing practices related to a Medicaid subpoena of a multi-hospital system;
- Support of a two hospital system in the consolidation and streamlining of separate pharmacy inventories into a single channel distribution model;
- Development of perpetual pharmacy inventory tracking and reporting processes designed to increase inventory turns and reduce total operating costs;
- Negotiation and implementation of several outsourced pharmacy dispensing agreements designed to expand 340B eligible pharmacy services while minimizing start-up capital requirements and ongoing operating costs;
- Development of a strategic alignment of multiple providers in single geography in order to maximize economies of scale to increase operating margins and total volumes.