
Samihah Ahmed, MHA, CVA
About
Samihah Ahmed, MHA, CVA, has more than seven years of experience advising hospitals, health systems, physician organizations, ambulatory care providers, and ancillary healthcare businesses. Her work focuses on business valuation, fair market value and commercial reasonableness analyses, physician compensation, transaction advisory, financial feasibility, and strategic planning.
Ms. Ahmed has performed valuation, fair market value, and transaction-related analyses for hospitals, health systems, physician groups and practices, urgent care centers, ambulatory surgery centers, diagnostic imaging centers, accountable care organizations, management services organizations, and home health providers. Her transaction experience includes physician practice acquisitions, hospital-physician alignment transactions, joint venture evaluations, strategic affiliations, and payer contract analyses. She has also developed physician compensation models and conducted fair market value and commercial reasonableness assessments for clinical services, medical directorships, administrative leadership, academic physician services, call coverage, management services, and co-management arrangements.
Experience
- Performed business valuations, fair market value analyses, and transaction-related assessments for healthcare organizations and provider arrangements.
- Provided buy-side and sell-side advisory support for physician practice acquisitions, hospital-physician alignment transactions, joint ventures, and strategic affiliations.
- Directed feasibility analyses supporting more than $500 million in tax-exempt bond financings and developed long-range forecasts, demand projections, and physician compensation models.
- Designed compensation models for hospital service lines that aligned provider pay, improved efficiency, performance, and organizational goals.
Areas of Expertise
- Business Valuation
- Fair Market Value/Commercial Reasonableness Opinions
- Financial Feasibility, Planning and Forecasting
- Financial Reporting
- Hospital/Physician Alignment/Integration
- Physician Compensation
- Reimbursement Consulting
- Transaction Advisory and Healthcare Mergers and Acquisitions
Education
Cornell University
Master of Health Administration
Ithaca, NY
Union College
Bachelor of Science, Biology
Schenectady, NY
Certifications
Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA)
Professional Memberships
National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts