Karen Marlo
Director, Benchmarking and Analysis
Karen Marlo joined the National Business Group on Health in July of 2007 as the Director of Benchmarking and Analysis. She is responsible for overseeing the collection of health care data and best practices information as it relates to the healthcare industry. Specifically, Ms. Marlo is responsible for development and implementation of benchmarking research and data collection surveys, including overseeing the annual plan design survey and the recently completed Employees and Healthcare Design Making survey of 1,500 consumers. Karen has extensive experience in data collection and analysis.
Before joining the Business Group, Karen was a Managing Director at the United BioSource Corporation's (UBC) Center for Pricing and Reimbursement, where she oversaw numerous research studies including studying the impact of changes in the Medicare program on pharmaceuticals and how private payers are managing specialty injectables. While at UBC, she was also responsible for the development new technological offerings, including launching the first ever online physician survey and development of relational databases to house key payer information for the organization.
Prior to UBC, Ms. Marlo was a Senior Associate at Charles River Associates where she developed contracting strategies for soon-to-be launched or newly introduced pharmaceuticals, developed an economic model to aid in identifying factors that influence the fair market value of physicians' services and performed studies on the clinical and cost effectiveness of certain pharmaceuticals, including pharmaceuticals targeting the treatment of migraines and glaucoma. Ms. Marlo began her career as a researcher at the Urban Institute where she conducted analysis using various data sources to study economic and health characteristics of certain segments of the populations, specifically the uninsured, pregnant women, and those in poverty.
Ms. Marlo holds a Bachelor's of Arts degree in Economics from Georgetown University and a Masters of Public Policy with a focus in Health Services Research from the Georgetown Public Policy Institute.
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