Michael F. Arrigo

Mr. Arrigo is affirmed as an expert by Federal Judges and has led diligence efforts on over $8 billion in enterprise value of healthcare industry merger and acquisition transactions. Mr. Arrigo has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio, the New York Times, Los Angeles Times and other publications.

His areas of expertise include Health Care Mergers, Health Care Private Equity and Venture Capital Investments, Antitrust and Competition Policy in the Health Care, Cost-Benefit Analysis in Health Care, Health Care Sector Modeling, Molecular Diagnostics, Health Care Insurance Services, Medical Device, Pharmaceuticals, Physician Services, Public Policy and Health Care Payment Reform. In addition, he has a decade of experience in enterprise software, social media, and eCommerce as well as financial services. He has spent time directly observing clinical staff deliver care to high acuity patients in hospitals, so he brings a care delivery perspective to the firm.

He has in-depth experience in medical coding and medical billing, civil and criminal fraud matters, HIPAA Privacy, the HITECH Act and Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and is a published author of peer-reviewed material. He is a regular speaker. He consults with clients regarding HIPAA 5010, ICD-10, revenue cycle management, Meaningful Use of Electronic Health care Records, quality measures for Medicare Advantage Hospital Value-Based Purchasing and Medicare Advantage HEDIS 5-Star Ratings for health plans. He is an expert in participatory social media for building brands and crowdsourcing solutions. Mr. Arrigo was recently quoted in the Wall Street Journal Venture Capital Dispatch regarding venture-backed information-technology companies that serve hospitals and health insurers and Wall Street Journal Health Blog. He performed a macroeconomic analysis of the reimbursement shifts in the international classification of diseases, version 10 (ICD-10) that was published in Healthcare IT News. He performed diligence work for the premier venture capital firm in the U.S on their investment in medical analytics, a health plan, physician group, and accountable care organization solutions.

In his prior work as an SVP of eCommerce at Fidelity and at CoreLogic, he led innovative eCommerce and consulting business groups that were instrumental in transforming both companies’ strategy from a siloed services to integrated exchanges using the software as a service (SaaS) platforms. He led one of the largest and most complex Sarbanes Oxley audits in the U.S. for a Fortune 100 firm, involving multiple lines of business, disparate financial systems, application controls and general controls. His team served financial services firms such as JP Morgan and Wells Fargo. Prior to that, he was CEO of Erogo (acquired by Citrix) a SaaS billing company. He led the development of the asset acquisition strategy and launch of LeadersOnline, a Heidrick & Struggles backed early social media venture and assisted in the IPO of Heidrick, adding over $100 million to the market cap at the time of the IPO. Prior to that, Mike served in consulting, executive, strategy, sales and marketing, and product management positions at Borland, Hewlett Packard, Symantec, and Oracle.

He has been a guest lecturer at Loyola and the University of California, Irvine. He earned his degree in Business Administration from the Entrepreneur Program at the University of Southern California (USC), studied computer science and economics at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and attended the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School executive management program. He studied Biomedical Informatics at Stanford Medical School and earned his certificate in Bioethics at Harvard Medical School. Mr. Arrigo is certified in Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma methodologies have been a member of the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) for health care information and the Southern California Chapter of the Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS). He writes for Government Health IT, Healthcare Finance News, mHealth News, Healthcare IT News, and the corporate blog. He is an advanced youth soccer coach and an avid road cyclist. In October 2007, Mr. Arrigo competed in the U.S. Olympic Sailing Team Trials.