Michael Kalison

Michael is Founder of AMS and has been involved in development of the AMS PBIS® methodology since it was formed in 1993.

In 1976, he was recruited by the NJ Department of Health to lead the technical team developing a prospective payment system for acute care hospitals based on patient case mix. After implementation, this NJ hospital financing system, which utilized DRGs as the basis for compensating hospitals, became the model for the Medicare Inpatient Prospective Payment System (“IPPS”). Subsequently, he was involved in design of IPPS’ capital payment component.

Michael also was senior partner at the law firm of Kalison, McBride, Jackson and Robertson, P.C., New Jersey’s most prominent health care boutique, which merged recently into McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney and Carpenter LLP. Since 1993, he has been named consistently to the Best Lawyers in America and similar publications.

A frequent national lecturer on financial and corporate issues affecting providers, Mr. Kalison has testified before congressional committees on prospective capital payment and health care policy.