Managing Director, Health Care Disputes

Managing Director, Health Care Disputes

Ankura is a team of excellence founded on innovation and growth.

A recognized leader in healthcare litigation support, Ankura’s Healthcare Disputes team combines unparalleled clinical, technical, and operational experience with the financial, economic, analytical expertise that healthcare clients and their legal counsel rely upon to successfully navigate complex matters.

Our team has developed unparalleled expertise of the specific processes, systems and data used by the healthcare industry’s largest payers and providers. We offer unique insights and complex analytical offerings for our clients that reveal how this information impacts legal disputes that these companies may be facing. We combine in-depth operational, compliance, and clinical industry knowledge with exceptional data analytics, information-gathering, and forensic skills — enabling us to help client and counsel assess and quantify the potential impact of a dispute.

Managing Director will support the Healthcare Disputes team within Ankura’s Disputes & Economics practice - one of seven practices focused on client delivery services across the Firm. Managing Director will use data analytics skills, industry knowledge and project management capabilities to develop custom solutions for clients facing high-profile and complex investigations and commercial disputes in a fast-paced environment.

• The successful candidate would be assigned to various projects where he/she would perform the following types of activities:
• Direct and review the development of complex analytical models leveraging relational database software, high level programming languages, complex spreadsheets, and other analytical tools.
• Supervise and conduct data gathering activities, document review, and quality control of data assessment.
• Apply innovative techniques to healthcare disputes and investigations engagements including those related claims processing and payment, provider contracts, market pricing, benefits administration, billing and coding, risk adjustment, etc.
• Expand and build new products in a collaborative team environment.
• Be a key contributor to Go to Market strategies and campaigns designed around key industry issues that contribute to the firm and practice’s growth.
• Be an Industry thought leader in emerging healthcare topics driving the industry like predictive analytic applications, risk adjustment, and value-based care.
• Develop, supervise, and motivate a team of high performing consultants.
• Responsible for engagement planning and managing/building client relationships.
• Prepare client communications, both written and oral, for senior level review; and
• Act as a mentor and supervisor to Associate and Senior Associate professionals.

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college/university in business, finance, economics, data analytics, or related discipline.
• 10+ years of experience in litigation/disputes consulting, or other data driven consulting roles providing forensic and disputes work.
• Strong understanding of the legal and regulatory issues that could affect an organization.
• Familiarity with the analysis of healthcare financial / operational data sets.
• Strong proficiency in using database and data modeling tools (e.g., SQL, Python, R, SAS, etc.)
• Ability to understand the importance of and maintain the privilege and confidentiality of attorney-client communications.
• Experience supervising junior consultants or entry-level professionals.
• Strong project management skills.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects.
• Commitment to quality and working within a team.
• Effective oral and written communication skills; and
• Ability and willingness to travel.

Ankura’s Compliance, Disputes and Economics Healthcare and Life Sciences Practice is a recognized leader in healthcare compliance, investigations, and litigation support. Ankura’s Healthcare team combines unparalleled compliance, clinical, operational, and technical experience with the financial, economic, analytical expertise that healthcare and life…