BDC Advisors hires Carrie Knowles-Atkinson as principal

BDC Advisors, a Miami-based healthcare strategy consulting firm, has hired Carrie Knowles-Atkinson as a principal in its payer-provider strategy practice.

Based in Miami, Knowles-Atkinson will work with health systems, provider organizations, and health plans to align contracting strategies with service line transformations and enterprise growth.

She brings more than 25 years of healthcare industry and consulting experience, with expertise across provider network strategy, contract negotiation, and payer-provider collaboration. Knowles-Atkinson has experience across all major lines of business, including commercial, Medicare Advantage, Medicaid, exchange, and federal programs.

Knowles-Atkinson most recently spent two years with Oliver Wyman, where she was a senior healthcare advisor working with payers on provider network optimization and contracting strategy. Before that, she spent nearly two decades with UnitedHealth Group, where she was national vice president of provider networks and regional vice president of government network programs.

Knowles-Atkinson has an MBA and a bachelor’s degree in advertising from the University of Florida.

“By bringing deep payer expertise to payer-provider strategy, we've consistently delivered client value through significant improvement in financial performance," said Shawn Fitzgibbon, managing director at BDC Advisors. "Carrie's operational excellence, strategic insight, and breadth of experience will help our clients address complex market dynamics and achieve sustainable growth."

BDC Advisors was founded in 1990 and works with academic health systems and community, regional, and multi-state provider systems. The consulting firm has offerings in healthcare enterprise strategy and organization, payer-provider innovation, physician enterprise transformation, M&A and growth, and population health management.

BDC Advisors has 41 employees listed on LinkedIn.