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Mike La Penna has been a consultant to physician groups and hospitals for more than 25 years. He has served in a number of board positions on health care organizations and community service organizations. He has been an executive in both nonprofit and for-profit health care environments.

Mike is a graduate of the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business, where he earned an MBA and a certificate in health care administration. He has a BA in economics from Western Michigan University, and he has held faculty positions in both undergraduate and graduate business programs.

Mike's expertise includes strategic planning, payer negotiation, real estate ventures, product branding, independent provider association (IPA)/physician-hospital organization (PHO) development and management, equity and risk arrangements, technology applications, faculty group practice plans, and merger, acquisition, and divestiture strategies. The La Penna Group, Inc. was founded in 1987 to provide business consulting services to physicians, hospitals, and health care delivery systems. It has also worked with industry and with governmental units to develop solutions for a variety of health care delivery situations. He has been an advisor to numerous national associations and authored numerous articles on health care trends, physician practice management, and network development. He has commented on health care for numerous publications and news outlets, including Crain's, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and NPR. Mr. La Penna is an advisor to some of the worlds largest health care delivery organizations and to numerous Fortune 100 firms.