About Sherlock Company
On August 13, 2023, we celebrated our 36th anniversary. Sherlock Company provides services to health care organizations, their business partners and their investors in the treasury, strategic and control functions of finance. We are known for our single-minded focus on the needs of our clients and for our high standards of technical competence.
We serve only managed care organizations, with mutually reinforcing services. Sherlock Company has performed over 140 financial advisory assignments for health plans, we offer the health plan industry's definitive cost and performance benchmarks, we offer services to telescope your use of the Sherlock Benchmarks and we publish two influential and highly regarded research newsletters. Our performance benchmarks complement our corporate finance activities, and both corporate finance and performance benchmarks inform our published research. The combined experience of the Sherlock Company team will exceed 100 years by the end of the summer of 2024.
Douglas B. Sherlock, CFA
President
Douglas B. Sherlock, CFA, is President of Sherlock Company, which assists health plans, their business partners and their investors in the treasury, strategic and control functions of finance. Now in its fourth decade, Sherlock Company is known for its single-minded focus on the needs of its clients and its technical excellence.
Sherlock focuses on the maintenance and development of the Sherlock Company business model. His marketing activities include panel, user and product development. Sherlock's process activities include the organization of various metrics for readily understood presentation and intellectual property protection including contracting and copyrights. As president, Sherlock provides the broad framework and oversight for successful execution of Sherlock reports and assignments.
Before founding Sherlock Company, Sherlock was Vice President of Financial Analysis of U.S. Healthcare, Inc., a predecessor to Aetna Inc., where he directed the company's merger and joint venture activity, its investor relations program and its Medicare + Choice product. Previously, Sherlock was a Vice President of Salomon Brothers, Inc where he published financial research concerning publicly traded health plans and hospital systems, earning high rankings in Institutional Investor and Greenwich Associates investor polls.
Sherlock is a Chartered Financial Analyst® charterholder. He is a contributing author to the fifth through eighth editions of Group Insurance, a textbook for actuaries. Sherlock Company's research was frequently cited in debates concerning the Affordable Care Act. Sherlock was been a member of the Financial Accounting Policy Committee of the CFA Institute and chaired its committee to review and comment on the AICPA audit guide for health care providers, and served on its subcommittee to review and comment on drafts of FASB's statement on Employers' Accounting for Postretirement Benefits Other Than Pensions (FAS 106).
Sherlock holds an M.B.A. in finance from Loyola University Maryland. He received his bachelor's degree in economics from Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Christopher E. De Garay
Senior Health Care Analyst
Chris joined Sherlock Company in September 2003 and currently serves as a Senior Health Care Analyst. He graduated magna cum laude from Villanova University in December 2002, receiving a Bachelor of Business Administration degree with a major in Finance.
His primary responsibilities include assisting with valuations, compilation of administrative expense benchmarks for health plans, assisting in the publication of PULSE, compilation of health plan dashboards and support of operational analyses. He has worked on numerous valuation assignments for health plans. His recent work includes the preparation of the 2024 Sherlock Benchmarks for the various universes of health plans. His work has been instrumental in automating, checking, compiling and publishing the Sherlock Benchmarks. His current work focuses on the application of the Sherlock Benchmarks to improve operational issues.
Erin K. Ottolini
Senior Health Care Analyst
Erin joined Sherlock Company in June 2005 and currently serves as Senior Health Care Analyst. She received her Bachelor's degree in Business and Economics from Ursinus College in May 2005, summa cum laude.
Her primary responsibilities at Sherlock Company include assisting in preliminary, formal valuations, compilation of administrative expense benchmarks for health plans, and support of various analyses. She has worked on numerous valuation assignments for health plans. Her recent work includes compilation of the 2024 Sherlock Benchmarks for the various universes of health plans. Among her other duties is the coordination and development of best practice meetings and conferences.
John J. Park, CFA
Senior Health Care Analyst
John joined Sherlock Company in January 2009 and currently serves as Senior Health Care Analyst. He graduated from Lehigh University in May 2008 with a Bachelor of Science in Business and Economies degree with a major in Finance.
His primary responsibilities include contributing to the publication of PULSE, performing valuations of health plans and coordinating benchmarking studies for health plans focused on Medicare and Medicaid. He is also heading Sherlock Company's efforts in benchmarking ACOs and risk-bearing physician practices. These efforts are complementary in that the valuation metrics are empirically related to operating performance. John was awarded his CFA Charter in September 2015.
Andrew L. Sherlock
Health Care Analyst
Andrew joined Sherlock Company in September 2016 and currently serves as an Analyst. He received his Bachelor's of Science in Business Administration from La Salle University majoring in Accounting.
His primary responsibilities include Cost Mapping, Plan Management Navigator, Third-Party Administrator Benchmarking and Web Development. He has recently completed a cost mapping engagement with a large health insurance company which entailed the application of Visual Basic to summarize, classify and allocate its internally reported costs to accord with the Sherlock Benchmarks.