Kate H. (Katie) Tarr is a Shareholder in the Healthcare Valuation division of LBMC, PC in Nashville. Her practice performs valuation and litigation support services for private and publicly held companies. Katie has more than 15 years of experience in both the corporate and consulting aspects of healthcare. She has extensive financial projection, benchmarking, budgeting, and business development experience. Katie leads the Value-Based Care service offering within the Healthcare Valuation service line. She determines compliant and meaningful incentive programs associated with value-based care initiatives around processes and outcomes focused on coordinating and managing care of patients, appropriately reducing costs or the growth in costs while maintaining the quality of care for patients, and/or improving the quality of care for patients. She has valued distribution methodologies for clinically integrated networks, among others, and financial incentives in outcomes-based payment arrangements or value-based care arrangements for value-based care enterprises. Katie also leads the Life Sciences service offering within the Healthcare Valuation service line. She has experience valuing compensation for Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs) and Healthcare Professionals (HCPs), as well as various arrangements between Life Sciences organizations and physicians or physician practices associated with specimen collection, clinical trials, advisory boards, among other services arrangements.
Katie also has experience managing physician contracting for employment, medical director services, call-coverage service, and Graduate Medical Education services, as well as developing commercially reasonable physician compensation models and policies. Katie specializes in Compensation Valuation (CV) services, determining Fair Market Value of physician compensation arrangements. She has extensive experience in valuing employment, call coverage, administrative/Medical Director, and other professional services arrangements. Katie also has experience in the valuation of physician practices and various other types of health care service arrangements, as well as other services including due diligence and clinician compensation consulting.
Katie has served on the Advisory Board for Nurses for Newborns, the Board of Directors for Leadership Healthcare, and as President of the Tennessee Chapter of the Healthcare Financial Management Association. She is currently a Vice Chair for the American Health Law Association’s Women’s Leadership Council and an Executive Leadership Team member for the American Heart Association of Middle Tennessee. Katie was named one of Nashville Medical News 2018 “Women to Watch”, a 2019 recipient of The Miller Award issued by Nurses for Newborns of Tennessee, a National Association of Certified Valuators and Analysts 2021 40 under Forty honoree, and a Nashville Business Journal 2024 40 under 40 honoree.
Prior to joining LBMC, Katie worked at OhioHealth a large not-for-profit healthcare system in Columbus, OH.
Certifications
- Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA), NACVA
- Fellow of the Healthcare Financial Management Association (FHFMA), HFMA
- Certified Healthcare Financial Professional (CHFP), HFMA