John Carlsen, MHA

John Carlsen, MHA, is a Vice President who leads the Reimbursement Strategy & Payer Insights service within Fortrea’s Market Access Consulting and HEOR group. He specializes in assessing the impact of changes to Medicare and managed care payment systems on the reimbursement of drugs, biologics, and devices. He has collaborated with manufacturers on market access strategy projects across many therapeutic areas and has over 25 years of experience with coding, coverage, and payment issues in various settings of care.

John closely follows the latest health care policy developments. Most recently, he has worked with clients in the areas of Medicare drug coding and payment policies, Medicare hospital payment systems (inpatient and outpatient), the Inflation Reduction Act, Most Favored Nation (MFN) payment models, discarded drug and 340B modifiers, and biosimilars. 

Before joining Fortrea (formerly Labcorp and Covance), John worked at the Ohio State University Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio, where he focused on financial management and medical information management.

John earned an MHA in Health Services Management and Policy from Ohio State University’s Graduate Program and a BA in Economics with a minor in Psychology from Duke University.