Andrew Asher
Senior Fellow

Andrew Asher is a senior fellow at Mathematica with an extensive background in health care management and data analytics—the use of data to help health care payers strengthen the integrity of their programs, realize cost savings, and improve program outcomes. His expertise includes the practical aspects of developing and implementing health policy, program development and management, building and maintaining large databases, information technology, and strategic planning.

Asher is nationally recognized for developing and implementing innovative data-driven approaches to help health care purchasers and insurers reduce fraud and abuse and manage their costs effectively. He has guided the development and implementation of innovative strategies to detect, prevent, and recover health care fraud and overpayments, including a wide array of models to identify improper payments. Asher also has broad and deep knowledge of health care systems, including Medicaid, Medicare, and commercial managed care and fee-for-service systems, acquired through his work with state Medicaid agencies, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), and health plans.

Asher rejoined Mathematica in 2013 after serving as vice president and director of government solutions at OptumInsight from 2007 to 2013 and in various leadership roles with the state of Illinois. From 2001 to 2007, he served as the manager of the Fraud Science Team within the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services’ Office of Inspector General, a group whose innovative fraud detection and prevention was work was featured in Government Accountability Office and CMS best practice reviews and the trade press. Asher was a health researcher and analyst at Mathematica from 1989 to 1994 and holds an M.P.P. from the University of Michigan.