Peter Kongstvedt

Dr. Peter Kongstvedt is a highly regarded national authority on the health care industry with particular expertise in health insurance and managed health care. He is principal of the P.R. Kongstvedt Company, LLC, and advises health care executives on strategy, operations and effective decision-making. Dr. Kongstvedt is also a Senior Health Policy Faculty member in the Department of Health Administration and Policy at George Mason University, and he recently founded Kongstvedt Learning Solutions, LLC to provide online multimedia training in health insurance and managed care.

Dr. Kongstvedt’s unique business expertise comes from the varied roles he has performed over his long career. Prior to his most recent positions as partner and senior executive in global consulting firms, Dr. Kongstvedt held the most senior level executive positions at a number of health plans. His roots as a practicing physician also give him first-hand understanding of the totality of the health care profession.

Renowned as the primary author and editor of “the bibles of managed care,” Dr. Kongstvedt’s books are used by more than 230 graduate and undergraduate health administration & policy programs. These books include: The Essentials of Managed Health Care, 5th Edition (Jones & Bartlett; 2007), and the significantly updated Essentials of Managed Health Care, 6th Edition (Jones & Bartlett; April 2012). He also wrote Managed Care, What It Is and How It Works, 3rd Edition (Jones & Bartlett; 2008), and will be updating that next. Finally, he recently founded Kongstvedt Learning Solutions, LLC to provide online multimedia training programs on the health insurance and managed health care industry.

As a health care industry thought leader, Dr. Kongstvedt has been quoted in dozens of trade publications and presents frequently at industry conferences and corporate events. During the public debate prior to passage of the new health reform law, Dr. Kongstvedt consulted to and made several appearances on The CBS Evening News, as well as on NBC’s Today Show.

A licensed physician, a board-certified internist and a Fellow in the American College of Physicians, Dr. Kongstvedt received his BS and MD degrees at the University of Wisconsin, where he also completed his internal medicine training & residency. He resides in McLean, VA.