Dr. Brandt specializes in valuing compensation arrangements which may have Stark and/or Anti-Kickback implications. Working primarily with hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and medical device companies, Dr. Brandt leads the Firm’s life sciences service line. She has specific expertise in valuing thought leader compensation and data acquisition arrangements as well as clinical trials and principal investigator compensation. In addition, she has extensive experience in providing valuation and consulting services related to co-management and physician management arrangements.

Dr. Brandt has more than twenty-five years of healthcare experience as a clinician, consultant, strategist, marketer and professor.  Prior to joining HealthCare Appraisers, she served as a senior consultant specializing in healthcare information technology and process redesign at a Fortune 15 technology and consulting company. She has extensive experience in physician/hospital partnerships as well as in operational restructuring, information management and clinical transformation. In addition, she has owned and operated several healthcare-related businesses.  

Dr. Brandt is an experienced presenter and has authored several articles on healthcare valuation topics.

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Practice Areas

• Dr. Brandt is involved in a broad range of healthcare valuation analyses, including:

• Medical director/thought leader compensation
• Management and co-management arrangements
• Clinical trials and data licensure arrangements
• Compensated call coverage
• Physician employment arrangements
• Physician needs assessments
• Pay-for-performance arrangements

Memberships

• Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)
• American Psychological Association (APA)

• Texas Woman’s University, Denton, Ph.D. Psychology, Collateral field: Applied Statistics (received a full fellowship)
• University of Maine, Orono, BA in Psychology

• Senior Consultant, IBM Healthlink Solutions, Houston, TX
• Director of Market Solutions and Strategic Partnerships, Eclipsys Corporation, Boca Raton, FL
• Senior Manager, Global Markets, Lucent Technologies, Warren, NJ
• Senior Manager, Strategic Market Development. XACCT Technologies, Santa Clara, CA
• Management Consultant, Touche Ross, Miami, FL
• Industry Consultant-Healthcare, AT&T, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
• Department Chair and Associate Professor, Graduate Program in Gerontology, Nova Southeastern University, Ft. Lauderdale, FL

• Determining the FMV of Thought Leader Compensation in the Life Sciences Industry(with Scott Safriet, AVA, MBA), Compliance Webinar hosted by Pilgrim Software. September 29, 2009.
  
  
• Determining “Fair Market Value” for Physician Consulting Services: The New ‘Big Question’ for Life Sciences Companies, (with Andrea M. Ferrari, JD, MPH, and Scott Safriet, MBA, AVA), Life Sciences (a publication of the American Health Lawyers Association Life Sciences Practice Group), Volume 3, Issue 1, April, 2009
  
  
• Fair Market Value – With no formal fair market value guidelines imposed by the government, how “fair” is it for pharma to play by the rules? by Ann S. Brandt, PhD, Daryl P. Johnson, MAcc, AVA, Pharmaceutical Executive, January, 2009.
  
  
• Fair Market Value: Ensuring Compliance within the Life Sciences Industry (with Jason L. Ruchaber, CFA ASA & Timothy R. Smith, ABV), BVR’s Guide to Healthcare Valuation 2009 Edition, Business Valuation Resources, LLC, November, 2008.
  
  
• Panel Discussion, Ann S. Brandt, PhD, Moderator – Balancing the Industry’s Needs with Compliant Compensation Arrangements. Center for Business Intelligence Bio-Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Forum on Creating Compliant Compensation Arrangements with Physicians and Hospitals, Vienna, VA, October 15, 2008.
  
  
• Presentation by Ann S. Brandt, Ph.D. – Determining Fair Market Value of Thought Leader Compensation.  Center for Business Intelligence, Pharmaceutical Marketing Compliance Congress, January 29, 2008, Washington, D.C.
  
  
• Brandt, A.S. & Hutzler, A.D. Valuation of Physician Consultant Arrangements: Ensuring Compliance within the Pharmaceutical Industry. White Paper, 2008.
  
  
• Brandt, A.S., Johnson, D.P. & Safriet, S.M. Valuation of Co-Management Arrangements: Achieving Operational and Quality Improvements through Hospital / Physician Partnerships. American Health Lawyers Weekly, a publication of the American Health Lawyers Association, September 21, 2007.
  
  
• Brandt, A.S. Operationally Defining Goals: Critical to Achieving Success. South Florida Hospital News, January 2007.