About Us
Kentmere Healthcare Consulting Corporation established the laboratory benefit management program category in 2000. A lab benefit management program has a crucial role in managing costs and utilization of lab testing and ensuring efficient and effective healthcare delivery.
Kentmere Laboratory Benefits Management Program™ saves national, regional and local health plans, employer customers, and members tens to hundreds of millions of dollars annually.
All Kentmere partner health plans reduce their annual outpatient lab benefit costs by 10 – 20 percent ($1-2+ pmpm)while concurrently improving all lab quality and service measures for providers and members.
With its database and benchmarking models of claims analysis developed over the last quarter-century, Kentmere provides proprietary and highly customized lab benefit management programs to guide health plans to improved quality and service while saving plans, employers, customers and members tens of millions annually.
It serves as the intermediary between lab testing companies to manage use of lab tests, manage the need for lab testing for health plans including self-insured, employers and health insurers.
Kentmere is the bridge between lab test providers and healthcare providers to educate stakeholders about prior authorization and set formularies for specific lab tests, determine coverage policies and manage claims, and review medical need and approve tests.
Because of its independence and exclusive commitment to working only with health plans, Kentmere provides uncompromised excellence and service to its partners. Kentmere is not a laboratory and does not work for or with laboratory providers.
Kentmere Laboratory Benefit Management Program™ leadership team includes those with a deep and direct senior executive level laboratory, managed care, MDs, PhDs, and healthcare analysts most with more than 30 years of experience.
Leadership Team
Jeffrey M. Petrizzi, Founder & CEO
Mr. Petrizzi defined the laboratory benefit management category when he established Kentmere in 2000. The firm quickly became the premier program guiding payors to significantly reduce costs and trend while improving all physician and member service and quality measures. Prior to Kentmere, Petrizzi was CEO of a 600-employee regional laboratory and also held various senior level positions in the clinical laboratory industry.
Charles Cini, CPA, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Analyst
Mr. Cini’s experience includes senior positions with a national accounting firm. He was also COO and CFO of a regional clinical laboratory. In addition, he was a senior level executive with a publicly held long-term care company responsible for all ancillary services. His broad healthcare industry experience and financial expertise has enabled Kentmere to develop its proprietary Kentmere LBMP Analytics for health plans, providing plan management with ongoing validated analyses with actionable options for policy, operational and strategic decision making.
Dr. Russel Kaufman, MD, Chief Medical Officer
Dr. Kaufman is a hematologist, oncologist, internist and cancer geneticist, and is board certified in internal medicine. He is the former Vice Chancellor of Duke University and Dean at the Duke University Medical School. During his 35-year tenure, he was director of the molecular diagnostic laboratory; director of the Hemolytic Anemia Diagnostic Laboratory; chief of division of Hematology / Oncology Department, and maintained an oncology practice at Duke. In addition, he was a research hematologist for the National Institutes of Health and has served as CEO of Philadelphia’s Wistar Institute.
David J. Moffa, Ph.D, Director of Quality & New Technology Assessment
Dr. Moffa holds a BS in pre-med, an MS in biochemistry and a Ph.D. in medical biochemistry, all from the University of West Virginia. He also completed a two-year postdoctoral NIH fellowship in clinical biochemistry at West Virginia University Medical Center. Dr. Moffa’s more than 50 years of experience such as work with numerous laboratories, including BioSource International LabCorp Inc., and BioPreps laboratories, Inc.
Brook Lau, DO, Medical Director
Dr. Lau researches new lab tests for clinical validity and utility. As a Cleveland Clinic-trained psychiatrist, Brook has worked directly with patients in a variety of clinical settings. She has deep experience monitoring medication safety for Wyeth, Pfizer and GSK. In addition, she has worked with a team of scientists monitoring the pre/post market safety and efficacy of multiple medications and authored safety reports to the FDA and worldwide regulatory agencies and was involved in supporting NIH-funded research in HIV.
Jennifer E. May, CPA, Vice President Health Plan Services
In her more than 30 years of experience, Ms. May has held roles as senior healthcare auditor and consultant with Arthur Anderson; Director of Provider Network and Contracting with CareFirst BCBS; Director of Provider Networks for Mid-Atlantic Medical Services, Inc., and as CFO for James M. Jost & Co, Inc.
Robert Abbonizio, Executive Director, Business Development
With a successful track record spanning more than 40 years, Mr. Abbonizio brings extensive experience in senior sales leadership roles for national organizations, as well as marketing. He has worked directly with both managed care and acute care healthcare organizations throughout his career.
NO OTHER COMPANY OFFERS THE SCOPE OF SERVICES OR CAPABILITIES THAT KENTMERE PROVIDES!