Thinkering specialises in the commercial and operational side of healthcare management in Australia, and works with clients on both the payor and provider side.
Focus: funding, data and analytics, claims integrity, and relationship management within the healthcare industry.
Based in Brisbane. Will work with you anywhere.
I started Thinkering because the people who inspire me and the projects that I want to be involved in are not concentrated in any one organisation, and I would rather be useful across the industry than tied to one part of it.
Most recently I was Head of Healthcare Funding at Bupa, where I led the first major rebuild of the insurer's acute hospital funding model in over a decade. Across 13 years in Australian private health I have worked on both sides of the insurer-provider relationship: contract management and funding strategy roles at Bupa, Ramsay Health Care, and Honeysuckle Health, and four years leading Bupa's claims analytics team. My earlier work was in clinical audit and claims integrity.
Before all of that I was a registered nurse, including a period when I worked in Arnhem Land. In hindsight, that is where I did my most important and memorable work.
I hold degrees in nursing, journalism, and international relations. I'm also a cancer survivor.