Michael Lutkus

Michael is a Senior Vice President at Kaufman Hall and has 15 years of experience in the healthcare industry. He has worked with numerous hospital clients on projects ranging from physician alignment initiatives to ambulatory strategy projects and freestanding ED validation to service line, hospital and system planning. He and his colleagues have performed detailed service line assessments and strategic planning across various service lines, including hospital-based specialties. In addition to hospital-physician strategy work, Michael has helped design cutting-edge system-to-system service line affiliation models. Three growing areas of activity and expertise for Michael include clinical service distribution and medical group and virtual health strategy. His clients have ranged from county-owned critical access hospitals to national for-profit health systems and have included some of the largest and most prestigious academic medical centers and academic health systems in the U.S.

Michael has extensive experience working on strategic planning and physician alignment projects with various specialists and primary care physicians across the U.S. In addition to facilitating independent physician practice acquisitions and performing physician/extender compensation modeling, Michael has distinct expertise helping hospitals and physicians jointly craft clinical co-management agreements that benefit both parties. Michael often works on projects that involve change management. He provides ongoing implementation and execution assistance after the discovery/vision and development/design phases.

Before joining Kaufman Hall, Michael worked for Charis Healthcare and the National Strategy Practice of Dixon Hughes Goodman (DHG). At DHG, Michael helped to standardize the firm’s approach to clinical co-management and developed a toolkit for use with clients. He was also intimately involved with clinically integrated network development projects.

Michael received a bachelor of science degree in chemical engineering from the University of Notre Dame.