Rene Castillo, Founder and Managing Principal.

Rene Castillo is the Founder and Managing Principal of HealthPulse Advisors LLC. The firm was built on one idea: reimbursement gaps in complex care are structural features of payer contract design, and that was learned by negotiating against that design from the provider side.

HealthPulse comes at reimbursement from the provider side, sharpened by direct experience negotiating and structuring advanced-therapy and managed-care contracts with payers. Seeing exactly where contract terms and actual payment separate is built into the firm's method. The firm calls that work reimbursement architecture: the contract terms, payment rules and operating assumptions that decide what a treatment center is paid for a case.

Founder-owned. No outside investors, parent company, manufacturer or payer holds a stake. The firm's commitments to the organizations it works with, and the independence rules behind them, are published here .