Lane Koenig, Ph.D.

Lane Koenig, Ph.D.
President
KNG Health Consulting, LLC
lane.koenig@knghealth.com

Lane Koenig, Ph.D., is a healthcare economist with over 10 years’ experience in the public and private sectors. He specializes in conducting data-driven analyses to study a broad range of health care issues, including Medicare reimbursement policy, provider efficiency, healthcare spending growth, and the costs and benefits of medical interventions, such as disease management and substance abuse treatment.

Prior to starting KNG Health, Dr. Koenig was the chief economist in the Office of Policy at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). At CMS, he analyzed drug prices and beneficiary savings under the Medicare Part D program, conducted multi-state comparisons of Medicaid and Medicare Part D drug prices and per-capita spending, led development of a model to assess the costs and impact on beneficiaries of alternative CMS policies, and frequently briefed the Administrator and CMS leadership. Dr. Koenig was a Senior Scientist at The Lewin Group, where he spent 7 years in the Health Care Finance practice. At Lewin, he focused on long-term and acute care hospital and physician payment issues. In particular, he advised CMS on physician payment under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule and modeled the impact on providers of regulatory, reimbursement, and delivery of care changes.

Dr. Koenig has published studies in Health Affairs, the American Journal of Managed Care, and the Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment. He graduated with Honors from the University of Florida, Gainesville and earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Maryland, College Park.