Edward E. Berger, Ph.D.
Ed is a Compass Strategies consultant specializing in reimbursement issues. Ed possesses nearly thirty years of experience in health services, medical technology and life science reimbursement. He has worked to provide reimbursement analysis, planning and strategy for a variety of companies in fields including mechanical circulatory support, cardiology, orthopedics, neural monitoring and neuromodulation, gastrointestinal surgery, pulmonary medicine, nuclear medicine, diagnostic imaging, clinical laboratory testing and personalized medicine.
Ed served on the senior management teams of Fresenius Medical Care, Thermo Cardiosystems and ABIOMED. He has extensive experience in leveraging large scale proprietary and public data resources for quality monitoring and improvement.
Ed currently serves as a director of Atanse, Inc., a developer of innovative neurosurgical instruments and as a mentor in Boston University's IGNITE program. He is also the president of the Medical Development Group, a four hundred member professional association of individuals committed to the life science and medical device business sectors. Ed is a frequent speaker at meetings and conferences on the topics of reimbursement analysis and planning, Medicare coverage of clinical trials and FDA/CMS coordination. He also blogs on reimbursement and device issues for Massdevice.com.
Ed earned a B.S. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from Boston University. He resides in the Boston, Massachusetts area.
Ed served on the senior management teams of Fresenius Medical Care, Thermo Cardiosystems and ABIOMED. He has extensive experience in leveraging large scale proprietary and public data resources for quality monitoring and improvement.
Ed currently serves as a director of Atanse, Inc., a developer of innovative neurosurgical instruments and as a mentor in Boston University's IGNITE program. He is also the president of the Medical Development Group, a four hundred member professional association of individuals committed to the life science and medical device business sectors. Ed is a frequent speaker at meetings and conferences on the topics of reimbursement analysis and planning, Medicare coverage of clinical trials and FDA/CMS coordination. He also blogs on reimbursement and device issues for Massdevice.com.
Ed earned a B.S. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from Boston University. He resides in the Boston, Massachusetts area.