Karen has over 15 years of healthcare transaction advisory and valuation experience, as well as extensive financial modeling expertise and a deep understanding of the evolving healthcare landscape. She provides FMV opinions for mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, JVs, joint operating agreements, and hospital-physician arrangements. As Karen’s clients contemplate enterprise-defining decisions, they appreciate her comprehensive approach to fair market valuations and her ability to present complex financial matters in a clear, meaningful way.
Among her management of over 200 projects at ECG, Karen has provided a valuation of a physician-owned MSO for a JV with a health system, which included determining an appropriate management fee to be charged and developing a contingency payment schedule for the purchase price; determined the purchase price of a nonprofit hospital JV and advised the client on how a replacement facility and corporate overhead allocations would impact the valuation; and evaluated a joint operating agreement for NICU services between two rural health systems, which included valuing the contributions of each party and determining the most impactful funds flow model. Prior to joining ECG, Karen served as a valuation consultant and transaction adviser with Huron Consulting Group and its broker dealer, Huron Transaction Advisory. She also holds an Accredited Senior Appraiser designation from the American Society of Appraisers.
