Sabiha Quddus provides healthcare support to clients by conducting research and investigating major healthcare issues through empirical and quantitative analysis. Additionally, she provides support on healthcare related antitrust matters and expert reports.
Most recently, she led several analyses to estimate the effects of healthcare reform. Her work included designing analysis and leading a team of analysts to evaluate the effects of proposed health policies (ACA expansion, public option) on costs and access to healthcare.
She supported several merger and acquisition transactions. Her role involved conducting market structure analysis, geographic analysis, analysis of extensive claims data, M&A quality assessments, and other industrial organization analyses. She has experience in designing consumer discrete choice modelling and semiparametric modeling to predict patient preferences for hospitals, to better understand the competitiveness of healthcare facilities in a relevant market. She worked with the Pennsylvania Insurance Department and led the quantitative analyses of the competitive effects following a proposed affiliation.
Ms. Quddus has built microsimulation models to assist clients in developing strategies that address fundamental changes in supply and demand within a community. She used microsimulation to project demand and assess the effects of a supply shortage of healthcare equipment and how it affected consumer choice. She also developed a model which used microsimulation to predict the incidence and prevalence of cancer and patient demand for cancer medical services.
She supported an engagement with Princess Alexandra Hospital and the West Essex CCG to redesign care delivery processes related to respiratory conditions. This healthcare transformation model provided a means to test the costs and potential savings of possible interventions designed to improve the health and health status trajectory of the population served by the Trust. Her other work includes assessment of commercial claims data, Medicare data, and quality of healthcare delivery for a healthcare pilot study to assess cost, quality and access in the Nashville region.
Prior to joining FTI Consulting, she was a Statistical Assistant at Mathematica Policy Research, where she provided research and project management support to both international and federal statistical projects. She developed statistical code for data quality checks, data cleaning and descriptive statistics that synthesized research findings in reports. As a project manager, she also reviewed and approved invoices, prepared monthly financial reports for Project Review and ensured that the projects adhered to contractual requirements.
Education
B.S., Economics and Statistics, The George Washington University
M.S, Applied Economics, Johns Hopkins University
Expertise
Antitrust & Competition Economics
Class Action
Expert Testimony
Pricing Strategy