AArete Expands Healthcare Consulting Leadership with Key Executive Appointments

AArete has strengthened its healthcare consulting practice with the addition of two managing directors, Pam Price and Gina Hedstrom, bringing decades of combined experience to address the evolving challenges in the healthcare industry. The appointments signal the consulting firm's continued investment in healthcare expertise as organizations navigate regulatory complexity, operational efficiency, and data-driven transformation.

Pam Price brings more than 35 years of healthcare experience to her new role, with expertise spanning Medicare Advantage, revenue optimization, provider engagement, and financial operations. Her deep understanding of CMS regulations, data analytics, risk adjustment, and Stars methodologies positions her to help clients build high-performing teams that balance regulatory compliance with member engagement. Price's background in helping payers and providers achieve measurable improvements through actionable insights adds significant strategic capability to AArete's healthcare practice.

Gina Hedstrom, a registered nurse with over two decades of healthcare consulting experience, joins as managing director in AArete's Payment Intelligence® practice. Throughout her career, Hedstrom has served as a trusted advisor to numerous U.S. health payers, driving improvements in policy optimization, claims adjudication, utilization management, credentialing, and medical record audits. Her unique combination of clinical, technical, and executive expertise enables her to lead strategic initiatives in payment accuracy, automation, operational strategy, and healthcare data innovation.

AArete CEO Loren Trimble emphasized the significance of these appointments, stating that Price and Hedstrom bring invaluable perspective to clients and enhance the firm's ability to deliver data-driven, AI-powered solutions for healthcare organizations' most complex challenges. The firm's commitment to healthcare excellence is reflected in its industry recognition, including being globally recognized for four consecutive years as a Forbes World's Best Management Consulting Firm and being named one of Forbes' America's Best Management Consulting Firms 2025 in Healthcare & Life Sciences. Additionally, Modern Healthcare recognized AArete as one of the Largest Healthcare Management Consulting Firms in 2025.

The expansion of AArete's healthcare leadership comes at a critical time for the industry, as organizations face increasing pressure to improve operational efficiency while maintaining quality care delivery. With healthcare costs continuing to rise and regulatory requirements becoming more complex, the expertise that Price and Hedstrom bring in areas such as payment accuracy, risk adjustment, and data analytics addresses fundamental challenges that healthcare payers and providers encounter daily. Their appointments strengthen AArete's position to help clients navigate the intersection of clinical care, financial performance, and regulatory compliance in an increasingly data-driven healthcare landscape.