Turning promising science into something the market understands and believes in is rarely straightforward. Leila de Koster shares how Hale navigated the realities of building a novel therapeutic category from the ground up, overcoming entrenched assumptions, earning trust across investors, regulators, and the veterinary market, and reaching the development and funding milestones that demonstrate the category is real.
Leila de Koster
Chief Executive Officer
Hale Animal Health
Nicolas Graber
Founder- Chairman
Graber Advisory Ansalt
Nicolas Graber
Founder- Chairman
Graber Advisory Ansalt
Nicolas studied business law at renowned universities in France, Germany and Switzerland and specialized in banking.
After working in the legal and compliance department of a large Zurich bank, he successfully took over the management of compliance departments of several private banks in Liechtenstein, where he supported their restructuring, digitalization and internationalization processes.
He holds certificates as a Digital Legal Officer from the University of Liechtenstein and in Corporate Governance from the University of St. Gallen/Swiss Board School.
Today, Nicolas advises companies and private individuals on compliance issues in the financial industry in Liechtenstein, teaches at the University of Liechtenstein and holds various board mandates
The relationship between value-based care and payment integrity is tightening fast, moving from parallel functions to deeply interdependent ones. No longer limited to claim-level accuracy, payment integrity must now validate complex contracts, risk models, and outcomes based payments. This panel brings together health plan and provider perspectives to explore how to ensure financial accuracy, fairness, and trust in value-based arrangements, while minimizing provider abrasion and driving cost savings.
- How to build recovery and audit capabilities that align with value-based care, rather than adapted from fee-for-service logic
- How the shift to pre-pay and cross-functional collaboration are critical to value-based care success at health plans
- The role of AI in enabling the real-time analytics, risk adjustment validation, and anomaly detection necessary for VBC success
