Mazahir Dossaji

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ABOUT MAZAHIR DOSSAJI

Maz Dossaji is a Director in the Healthcare Payer and Provider practice at Guidehouse with over 10 years of experience advising leading academic health systems, community hospitals, and specialty providers on managed care strategy, payer contracting, and reimbursement optimization.Maz brings deep expertise in managed care contracting, negotiation strategy, commercial rate benchmarking, and strategic pricing. His work focuses on helping provider organizations strengthen their reimbursement positioning and drive sustainable revenue growth across Commercial, Medicare Advantage, and Managed Medicaid contracts. He regularly supports health systems in developing comprehensive negotiation strategies, payer-specific playbooks, and data-driven positioning to improve contract performance.In addition to contracting strategy, Maz has supported hospitals and physician organizations in chargemaster strategic pricing, revenue rebalancing initiatives, and value-based payment strategies that align pricing structures with market dynamics and payer reimbursement frameworks. He works closely with CFOs, COOs, and executive leadership teams to translate complex reimbursement analytics into actionable strategies. Maz has helped lead negotiation strategies for major academic medical centers and community hospitals, enabling organizations to achieve rate increases significantly above historical performance through disciplined market analysis, reimbursement benchmarking, and structured negotiation support.Maz earned a Master of Science in Health Systems Management from Rush University, where he worked in Financial Planning and Decision Support as well as Nursing Finance and Emergency Medicine operations at Rush University Medical Center. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Community Health with a concentration in Health Planning and Administration from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.