“Mike La Penna brings an important perspective to a key shift in the structure of health care. Providers, payers, employers, and patients are greatly impacted by this shift from relative independence to integration, which has critical implications to the cost and quality of health care as we know it today.”

Larry Boress, Executive Director
National Association of Worksite Health Centers

“After 25 years of my seeking Michael La Penna’s counsel and direction in half a dozen different medical practice venues and models, I have learned to appreciate his incisiveness, his conciseness, his analytical skills, his wisdom, and his dry humor.”

George O. Waring III, MD, FACS, FRCOphth, Professor of Ophthalmology, Emeritus
Emory University; former private clinical practice, Atlanta, GA

“Mike La Penna is the consummate medical staff business consultant. His impressive depth of knowledge coupled with his common sense approach has led to successful resolution of a broad array of issues we have faced in managing the business organization, compensation, and management of our physicians and their practices. His words of wisdom and advice regarding physician integration are welcome in this turbulent time of reform and aggregation of health care entities.”

Susan Mendelowitz, RN, FACHE, President and COO
Bergen Regional Medical Center, Paramus, NJ
and Paul C. Mendelowitz, MD, MPH, Former Chief Medical Officer
Holy Name Medical Center, Teaneck, NJ

“No health care environment is tougher than New York. When change occurs, it is rapid and dramatic. We look to experts who have a proven track record of managing change.  Mike La Penna assisted us with the development of an IPA that numbered over 5,000 providers and a dozen institutions at a time when managed care first emerged. He fashioned the governance as well as the value proposition for all of the stakeholders.”

Anthony Gagliardi, MD, Vice President & Chief Medical Officer
New York Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital and Charter Trustee of SERVITAS IPA of Greater New York