Tony Kouba

Tony is a nationally recognized expert in provider compensation and valuation. He helps his clients align provider compensation with organizational objectives and optimize medical group performance. Tony also directs ECG’s fair market value (FMV) and commercial reasonableness (CR) review framework. His deep understanding of the regulatory environment allows him to support healthcare organizations in federal and state investigations as an expert in physician compensation and provide opinions for entities under corporate integrity agreements with the federal government.

At ECG, Tony’s work focuses on physician-hospital relationships, faculty and physician compensation planning and implementation, and value-based care incentive design. Recent examples of his work include developing a physician compensation governance framework for NewYork-Presbyterian and its academic affiliates, leading the faculty compensation model redesign and compensation governance framework review for Emory Healthcare, and guiding ECG to becoming the preferred FMV and CR consulting partner for some of the largest nonprofit healthcare systems in the US (e.g., Providence Health, Dignity Health, Ascension Health, Advocate Health Care, Banner Health). Prior to joining ECG, Tony was a managing director at Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., where he led thought leadership development and consulting services related to valuation and compensation program design, governance, and administration.