Gary Albers is co-founder and CEO of Imperium Health Management, started in 2011 with the idea of creating independent physician led ACO's for the not yet completely designed MSSP program. Imperium currently partners and or manages 11 MSSP ACO's and is expecting with the 2016 class to have over 15 plus ACO's with 120,00 lives, 1,300 physicians and 1.2 billion dollars in annual Medicare spend. Prior to Imperium, Mr. Albers was president of Soteria Imaging Services, LLC, an outpatient medical imaging provider that grew to 36 locations across the nation with over 300 employees. He attended Indiana University and received a degree in public affairs from the School of Public and Environmental Affairs. Mr. Albers also attended Madison University for completion of his MBA. 

Andrew Allison is On Belay’s administrative and growth leader.  He most recently served as Aetna’s head of Next Generation clinic strategy, where he was the enterprise subject matter expert on Medicare risk contracting.  He was responsible for developing strategic relationships with the most advanced physician groups across the country, including his prior employer Iora Health.  In his role at Iora, he developed the company’s growth strategy and led negotiations with multiple national health plans securing full risk, global capitation Medicare contracts.  He has also helped build early-stage healthcare companies and has extensive finance experience working on Wall Street. 

Emily Anderson is the director of community health for Essentia Health, a nonprofit, integrated health system. She leads strategic activities and develops partnerships to support health and vitality with local communities across Essentia’s service area. 

 

 

Dave Ault is counsel at Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP where he advises clients on a range of CMS issues including those related to value-based payment. Dave regularly draws on his extensive experience at HHS and CMS, including his tenure leading the Next Generation ACO Model and working as part of the Medicare Shared Savings Program leadership team. 

 

 

Gary Bacher serves as the chief of strategy, policy, and legal affairs at Capital Caring Health, a leading nonprofit provider of advanced illness care. He also serves as executive director for the Advanced Illness Partners Direct Contracting Entity. Prior to joining Capital Caring Health, he was the chief strategy officer at the CMS Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), where he was responsible for directing the development of new models and initiatives to improve and refine value-based care.  For more than a decade, Mr. Bacher has led efforts in health care improvement and transformation, operating at the intersection of public policy, law, regulatory affairs and business development.  His expertise has been essential for the continuous improvement of systems of care including Medicare and Medicaid and other aspects of health care and health care reform. Mr. Bacher holds a JD from Stanford Law School, an MPA from Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs, and a BA from Georgetown University, where he also holds an appointment as an adjunct assistant professor. Earlier in his career he served as an active-duty Army officer.

Sujata Bajaj is senior vice president of product development at Episource. She has built extensive solutions for payers, including ACOs, Medicaid, MA, and the ACA exchange. She uses technology to integrate revenue programs with quality and care management while maintaining a dedication to adding value to the beneficiary's experience with the health plan through those solutions. Ms. Bajaj has a bachelors in economics from Northeastern University.

Tori Bratcher is the executive director of population health operations at Indiana University Health, where she is responsible for the strategy and operations of IU Health’s population health programs within the Next Generation ACO, IU Health Plans, and other value-based payment contracts. She works collaboratively with regional physician and business unit leaders to drive population health success with the providers and practices across the system. She is responsible for both the business and clinical operations within population health including care management, physician engagement, project management and patient engagement. Her team focuses on implementing population health initiatives such as accurate assessment of acuity, outpatient quality improvement, reduction of avoidable utilization and improvement in annual care. In addition to population health management, she is also the chief operating officer of the IU Health Next Generation ACO. Within the ACO, she is responsible for compliance, quality reporting, network management, and ACO governance. Prior to her role at IU Health, Ms. Bratcher managed teams responsible for data integration and quality reporting for a clinically integrated network in Chicago that managed several ACOs and value-based contracts. She also has experience in practice management in the outpatient setting. She graduated with a master’s in health administration from University of Illinois Chicago and bachelor’s in biology and pre-med from Indiana Wesleyan University. 

Allison Brennan, MPP, is the Senior Vice President of Government Affairs for the National Association of ACOs in Washington, D.C. where she helps develop and advocate for policies to benefit ACOs. Prior to NAACOS, Allison was a senior advocacy advisor at the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) where she helped lead MGMA's advocacy efforts, focusing on federal regulatory and legislative issues and coordinating MGMA advocacy activities. Before joining MGMA, Allison worked as a program manager at the Brookings Institution where she designed and managed educational seminars focused on the policy process and federal leadership development. Allison began her career interning in the United States Senate and then worked at the National Patient Advocate Foundation, where she lobbied state governments on behalf of patients and managed grassroots. Allison has a bachelor's degree in government and economics from the College of William and Mary and holds a master's degree in public policy from Georgetown University, with a focus on health policy. 

Travis Broome is the senior vice-president of policy and economics at Aledade, Inc. He guides Aledade and partner physicians through the policy, strategy and economics of value-based health care. Joining Aledade shortly after its start, he worked on nearly every aspect from business development for both practices and payers, to early analytics, to serving as an ACO executive director for Aledade Louisiana ACO. Prior to Aledade, he spent seven years at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in roles ranging from regulation writing to quality improvement to management. Mr. Broome earned his masters of public health and business administration from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. 

Emily Brower serves as senior vice president of clinical integration and physician services for Trinity Health, one of the largest multi-institutional Catholic health care delivery systems in the nation, serving more than 30 million people across 22 states. In this role, she provides leadership and strategic direction within the evolving accountable healthcare environment, with an emphasis on clinical integration and transformation under alternative payment models. Ms. Brower joined Trinity Health from Atrius Health, where she last served as vice president of population health, building and executing the essential capabilities required to achieve strong financial and clinical outcomes within integrated care models under value-based reimbursement, particularly for publicly insured populations. Her Medicare ACO team delivered year over year improvement in cost and quality, and the highest per-capita savings in an independent evaluation of the Pioneer model. Prior to Atrius Health, Ms. Brower spent fifteen years in operational, financial, and contracting leadership roles at Urban Medical Group, a Massachusetts non-profit healthcare organization specializing in the care of medically complex, chronically ill populations across a community-based, long-term care continuum. During that time, she launched a PACE program and other innovative, capitated contracts for medically complex populations and served as Principal Investigator for a multi-year research project analyzing cost and quality outcomes to support payment reform. Ms. Brower received her BA from Smith College and MBA from the New York University Stern School of Business.

Dr. Alice Huan-mei Chen is chief medical officer at Covered California, the state’s health insurance marketplace, which actively works to ensure that Californians can find affordable, high quality coverage.  Prior to joining Covered California, Dr. Chen served as deputy secretary for policy and planning and chief of clinical affairs for the California Health and Human Services Agency, where she led many of the Agency’s signature health policy initiatives on affordability and access, and played a leadership role in the state’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. She has a long history of leadership in enhancing access and quality of care for vulnerable communities through patient care, teaching, policy and advocacy, delivery system innovation, and administrative leadership across a variety of settings, including community health, philanthropy and academia.  A graduate of Yale University, Stanford University Medical School, and the Harvard School of Public Health, Dr. Chen's training includes a primary care internal medicine residency and chief residency at Brigham and Women's Hospital.  Proficient in Mandarin and Spanish, she maintains an active primary care practice at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and holds an appointment as clinical professor of medicine at UCSF.

Doug Clarke, MD, is a practicing internal medicine physician and medical officer in the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation where he implemented and leads the acute hospital care at home waiver initiative at CMS. He received his undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of Virginia and completed his residency at George Washington University. He has practiced as a hospitalist at a small hospital in rural Virginia and on faculty at the Medical University of South Carolina. He earned his MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University where he triple-majored in economics, finance, and strategy.

 

Chris Day is president of value-based solutions for Anthem, Inc. Prior to this role, he served as president of careC2, a Leidos Business, where he was leading his second start-up inside a Fortune 300 company. Before careC2, Mr. Day served as senior vice president of strategy and care management at Kindred Healthcare, where he spearheaded Kindred’s strategic and operational transformation by building high-performance networks through contracts and joint ventures with health systems, PAC providers, technology providers and government. Earlier in his career, Mr. Day was chief business development officer in Aetna’s Accountable Care Solutions (ACS) unit. He has worked to advance public health throughout his career, including serving as director of strategic development for the Public Health Foundation and on the board of the American Public Health Association. Mr. Day received his MBA, leadership in healthcare, from the Yale School of Management in 2007 and his master’s in public health from the University of Kentucky in 2002. 

Linda DeCherrie, MD, is the clinical director of Mount Sinai at Home, the home-based service line at Mount Sinai Health System.  The service line includes Mount Sinai Visiting Doctors Program (home based primary and palliative care), Hospitalization at Home, Rehabilitation at Home, Mount Sinai Palliative Care at Home and Pediatrics Visiting Doctors and Complex Care.  She is a professor in the Brookdale department of geriatrics and palliative medicine and the department of medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.  Her interests include resident education in geriatrics and home care, as well as, systems and policy implications for home-based care of all types.  

Erin DeLoreto serves as CareAllies’ vice president of value-based programs. She is a graduate of Rutgers University Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. She has twice been appointed by the CMS to Technical Expert Panels (TEP) to advise on matters related to the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) and the Merit Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS). In 2014, NJBIZ named her to the publication’s “40 Under 40” list: a program highlighting promising young executives in New Jersey.

Sanjay Doddamani, MD, is executive vice president, chief physician executive and chief operating officer of Southwestern Health Resources, the clinically integrated network supporting 5,500 providers and almost a million lives through UT Southwestern. He oversees the strategy and implementation of operations, quality, clinical programs and population health. He previously served as senior physician advisor at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) within CMS where he served in the front office overseeing the development and implementation of health delivery models that tested and measured value-based payment innovation. Prior to joining the government, he was chief medical officer of Geisinger at Home, a home-based medical care model for its population of medically complex patients. He also led the Keystone ACO as CMO. He continues to focus on accelerating the transition to value based care, improving patient outcomes and experience, and harnessing big data and artificial intelligence to empower clinicians to provide better care to patients. Dr. Doddamani is board certified in internal medicine, cardiology, and heart failure and cardiac transplant. He has served on numerous panels and committees to positively disrupt and promote better health for individuals and communities.

Scott Early, MD, is On Belay's clinical thought leader. A Dartmouth Medical School graduate, he was selected by classmates as graduation speaker.  He is recognized as an innovative thinker and passionate about making primary care better for patients and providers. He served for 17 years as the founding director of a residency program nationally recognized for innovation followed by 5 years as chief medical officer at a federally-funded community health center. In 2015, he founded Kronos Health, a Massachusetts based practice delivering patient-centered care in a dramatically higher touch, higher impact primary care model. 

 

Eric Fennel serves as the vice president of national network strategy, innovation and value-based solutions at Aetna, a CVS Health company. He is responsible for leading a range of initiatives to transform the provider network and deliver greater value to consumers through new partnerships, payment models and technologies. In support of this effort, he also maintains responsibility for Aetna’s value-based solutions strategy, operations and provider engagement services across all lines of business. Prior to joining Aetna, Mr. Fennel oversaw operations nationally for Evolent Health’s value-based solutions group. In this role, he was accountable for the performance of more than 80 clinicians across 10 states, working locally with patients and providers to execute Evolent’s care management programs as well as guiding the development of Evolent’s VBS strategy, products and services.  Prior to joining Evolent, he was a senior member of the policy and programs team at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), which he joined early in its formation, supporting development of CMMI’s strategy and leading efforts to build and manage its $10 billion innovation portfolio. In this work, he drew upon his earlier experiences in developing new payment and engagement models at Lumenos and WellPoint/Anthem as well as his work at the National Committee for Quality Assurance. 

Rushika Fernandopulle is a practicing physician and co-founder and CEO of Iora Health, a growth-stage healthcare services firm where they are building a new high impact, relationship-based model of health care.  He was the first executive director of the Harvard Interfaculty Program for Health Systems Improvement, and managing director of the Clinical Initiatives Center at the Advisory Board Company. He serves on the staff at the Massachusetts General Hospital, the boards of Families USA and the Schwartz Center for Compassionate Care, and faculty of Harvard Medical School. He earned his A.B., M.D., and M.P.P. from Harvard University. 
 

Dr. Robert Fields is a family medicine physician and serves as the EVP/chief population health officer at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. In this role, Dr. Fields leads a network of hospitals and physicians managing $3.5 billion dollars of medical spend for over 450,000 patients in the downstate region.  He also leads system strategy for managed care and value-based contracting and revenues.  Dr. Fields began his career as an independent primary care physician serving all ages with a particular concentration on underserved Latino patients in Western North Carolina. He held various leadership positions including serving as the CMO of the area’s first ACO.  Dr. Fields came to Mount Sinai in March of 2018 as the SVP and CMO for population health. Dr. Fields serves as the board chair of the National Association of ACOs (NAACOS) and serves on the board of America’s Physician Groups (APG).  He is also a member and chair for various national committees on quality and measure development for the National Quality Foundation and CMS.   He earned his medical degree from the University Of Florida College Of Medicine, and completed a family medicine residency at the Mountain Area Health Education Center in Asheville, NC where he was chief resident.  Dr. Fields earned his master of health administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 

Ashley Fitch is the director of community partnerships and innovation at Mount Sinai Health System. In this role she is responsible for developing innovative, community-based programs and partnerships that improve patient outcomes and reduce disparities in care by addressing issues related to social determinants of health. She holds a B.A. from Kenyon College, a M.S. from the Icahn School of Medicine, and a M.A. from New York University. 

 

Jeanette Flood is the vice president of payer relations at Delaware Valley ACO (DVACO). She joined DVACO in 2015 after years of working with both health plans and health care providers. This experience has given her a unique perspective on how to build relationships on foundations of trust and cooperation. Prior to DVACO, Ms. Flood served in a payer contracting capacity for Jefferson Health System; Thomas Jefferson University Hospital; Cooper University Hospital; and Middlesex Hospital. She spent many years in a variety of capacities with Aetna Inc. where her roles ranged from systems analyst to account manager for Fortune 100 employers to executive director at Aetna Health Plans of California. She also served as manager of provider relations as well as a P&L plan manager for provider risk relationships for a large regional HMO. Ms. Flood volunteers in the Delaware Valley for organizations near and dear to her heart including REDI, Inc. and the SPCA.

Elizabeth "Liz" Fowler, Ph.D., J.D., is the deputy administrator and director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMS Innovation Center) at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Dr. Fowler previously served as executive vice president of programs at The Commonwealth Fund and vice president for global health policy at Johnson & Johnson. At Johnson & Johnson, she focused on delivery system models and reforms in the U.S. and in developed and emerging markets. From 2008 to 2010, she was chief health counsel to Senate Finance Committee Chair, Senator Max Baucus (D-MT), where she played a critical role developing the Senate version of the Affordable Care Act. Dr. Fowler has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania, a Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, and a J.D. from the University of Minnesota.

Nils Franco researches health economics issues for the Altarum Institute’s Center for Eldercare Improvement, conducting economic modeling and data projects about medical and social service needs. With the National Bureau of Economic Research in 2019 and 2020, he helped design research to estimate the effect of prescription drug access on caregiving (unpaid and paid) and nursing home entry. His contracted research and data analysis for the Office of the District of Columbia Auditor investigated how public health and criminal justice systems in the District coordinate or disrupt care for patients with substance use disorders when arrested or incarcerated. As an analyst contracted for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services from 2018 through 2019, he conducted research to inform the activities of Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation peer learning programs for health care providers engaged in pay-for-performance reimbursement models. Additionally, he worked for the Medicare Ombudsmen Group to automate analyses, research program issues, and complete multiple Reports to Congress. Prior to entering health economics, he served in education and juvenile justice policy roles.

Clif Gaus, Sc.D. is currently president and CEO of the National Association of ACOs which he helped found in 2012. NAACOS is the only national organization owned and managed by ACOs. It advocates for ACOs on policy and offers shared learning experiences through conferences, webinars, forums and work groups. Dr. Gaus has a diverse background as a public servant, entrepreneur and health executive. He served in senior health positions under Presidents Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Clinton. In the 1970's and 80's, as associate administrator of HCFA (now CMS), he directed the development of a broad range of innovations in health care financing and delivery, including the DRG hospital payment system, RBRVS physician payment system, Medicare Hospice Programs and Medicare payment of Physician Assistants. From 1994 to 1997 he was the Administrator of the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (now AHRQ).

In the late 90's Dr. Gaus held the position of executive vice president and chief administrative officer of WellPoint Health Networks Inc. Prior to WellPoint, he was senior vice president of the national Kaiser Permanente Health System in Oakland, California. From 2002-10 he served on the Board of Directors of the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, Stanford University. In recent years he has consulted for a number of prominent organizations, including a six month engagement with the Administrator of CMS working on the ACO regulations and the start-up of Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI). He holds a master's degree in health administration from the University of Michigan and a Doctorate of Science in health care management from The Johns Hopkins University.

Tim Gronniger joined Caravan Health in 2017 as the senior vice president for strategy and development, becoming the company president in 2018. In those roles he oversaw the company’s delivery and operations as well as marketing and its strategic growth plan. He is the former chief of staff and director of delivery system reform at CMS where he led the agency’s work on drug spending issues, significant elements of the agency’s implementation of the new physician payment system created by the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015, creation of new payment models, and other topics. He was previously a senior adviser for health care policy at the White House Domestic Policy Council, where he was responsible for coordinating administration activities in health care delivery system reform. Before joining DPC he was a senior professional staff member for Ranking Member Henry Waxman at the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, responsible for drafting and developing elements of the Affordable Care Act. Mr. Gronniger began his career in Washington at the Congressional Budget Office. He holds master's degrees in public policy and health services administration from the University of Michigan and a B.A. in biochemical sciences from Harvard University. 

John Halperin, MD, is board certified in neurology, internal medicine and electrodiagnostic medicine. He was educated at MIT and Harvard Medical School, with residencies at University of Chicago and Massachusetts General Hospital. With over 250 publications, focusing largely on the intersection between neurology and infectious diseases, and 30 years as a neurology chair, Dr. Halperin recently transitioned to become medical director of Atlantic Health’s Center for Research. A professor of neurology and medicine at Thomas Jefferson, and chair of NJ’s Stroke Advisory Panel, he is a frequent reviewer for multiple medical journals and NIH study sections. He is currently vice chair of the American Academy of Neurology’s Guideline Development Sub-Committee, with a longstanding interest in evidence-based medicine he has co-authored multiple national Guidelines. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Neurology, American College of Physicians, the American Association of Electrodiagnostic Medicine, the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Royal college of Physicians (Edinburgh). 

Jennifer Houlihan is the vice president of value-based care and population health for Wake Forest Baptist Health, where she is focused on operational and financial performance in value contracts, engagement with community partners, and leveraging best practice from innovation and translating into new care models.  With 20+ years as an experienced healthcare leader, her role is to understand and develop the capabilities needed to implement and sustain population health management and community engagement to minimize care fragmentation, improve quality and reduce costs. Ms. Houlihan earned a master's in planning from Florida State University with an emphasis in health policy and a master’s certificate of population health from Thomas Jefferson University.

Sachin H. Jain, MD, MBA became president and CEO of SCAN Group and Health Plan on July 1, 2020.  Most recently, Sachin was president and chief executive officer (CEO) of CareMore Health and Aspire Health, innovative integrated healthcare delivery companies. He led growth, diversification, expansion and innovation of these companies and they grew to serve over 180,000 patients in 32 states with $1.6B in revenues. Sachin was previously chief medical information & innovation officer at Merck & Co. He also served as an attending physician at the Boston VA-Boston Medical Center and a member of faculties at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Business School. From 2009-2011, Sachin worked in the Obama Administration, where he was senior advisor to Donald Berwick when he led the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Sachin was the first deputy director for policy and programs at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI).  He has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles in journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA and Health Affairs, and was an editor of the book, “The Soul of a Doctor” (Algonquin Press). Sachin is adjunct professor of medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine and a contributor at Forbes. In addition, he serves on the Board of Directors at Make-A-Wish America. Sachin graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College with a BA in government and continued on to earn his MD from Harvard Medical School and MBA from Harvard Business School. He trained in medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital.

Sam Johnmeyer is the director of actuarial services and medical economics at PSW and MultiCare Connected Care where he leads a small team of actuaries in their mission of using math to reduce the total cost of care, improve health outcomes, and increase patient satisfaction. With a background in operations Sam enjoys caveats AND efficiency or, as he has dubbed them, ‘Efficient Caveats’. He previously worked for a Medicare Advantage health plan and in various healthcare consulting roles. Sam is a fellow in the Society of Actuaries and has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Minnesota.

 

Steven Johnson is the director of the division of program alignment and communications (DPAC) in the performance-based payment policy group (P3) in the Center for Medicare at CMS. Steven maintains and oversees ACO interactions, communications, and policy development for quality within the MSSP. Additionally, in this role Steven coordinates with other CMS components to align the ACO quality measurement approach, manage and coordinate the Shared Savings Program ACO quality-reporting infrastructure, and assess quality performance. Prior to P3, Steven served as the director of the Chicago division of special programs and innovation in the Office of Program Operations and Local Engagement where he worked on the implementation of PACE, Quality Health Plans, and Medicare and Medicaid Plans (MMP) policies. Steven has been with CMS for over 10 years and has varied experience from model development, regulation development and implementation, and payment policy development.  Steven has a master’s in public policy and analysis from The New School Milano School of Policy, Management and Environment and a bachelor of arts in sociology from Grinnell College. 

Kimberly Kauffman Kauffman is Best Value Healthcare’s COO with a special focus on value-based care operations. In her role, she is responsible for the transition from fee-for-service to fee-for-value. In support of value-based contracts with CMMI, Medicare Advantage, commercial health plans and Medicaid managed care, she leads the care coordination, health education, integrated programs, quality reporting and improvement, risk adjustment and provider engagement teams and works closely with health plan partners. Prior to joining Best Value Healthcare, Ms. Kauffman was the chief value based care officer for Summit Medical Group, a physician-owned primary care group with 300 providers and 300,000 active patients. Prior to that role, she managed a large independent physicians’ association in Florida and also worked with hospital and physician leadership to create several regional physician hospital organizations. She received her master’s degree from the College of Public Health at the University of Florida.

Peter Kelly serves as chief value officer at CareMount and executive director of CareMount ACO, the group’s full-risk Medicare Next Generation ACO.  In his role, he is responsible for managing CareMount’s Value Business and the financial performance of risk-based contracts covering 50,000 Medicare patients.  Previously, he served as executive director of market operations for Universal American with responsibility for Medicare Advantage and ACO plans in New York State.  He also served as director of strategy for UAM.  Mr. Kelly was named “Top 10 Up-and-Coming Industry Leader” by Managed Healthcare Executive in 2019.  He graduated from Princeton and has an MBA from Wharton.

Thomas Kloos, MD, is executive director of the Atlantic Health MSO, a management services organization which supplies management services to both the Atlantic ACO and Optimus Healthcare Partners ACO. The two ACO's serve both the MSSP program and commercial relationships and encompass over 90,000 attributed Medicare beneficiaries and over 200,000 commercial attributed beneficiaries. He is a NAACOS board member. He was past president of Optimus Healthcare Partners, a physician established ACO and has also has served as past president and medical director of Vista Health System IPA. On the payer side, he is board member and past board vice president of the Affiliated Physicians Health Plan, a self-funded Multiple Employer Welfare Association (MEWA). Dr. Kloos is a board-certified internal medicine practitioner and has been a NCQA recognized level 3 Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH). He graduated from the University of Louisville Medical School in 1979 and from Rutgers University in 1975. 

Amy Kotch is Salient’s lead business consultant working with ACOs nationwide. She received a masters in health administration from Florida Atlantic University as well as a bachelor’s of science from the University of Miami and has just recently completed a master certification in population health through a federal grant from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology in conjunction with the Johns Hopkins University and Normandale Community College. Her prior work includes being the operations coordinator at Triple Aim Development Group consulting with ACOs/MSOs.
 

Pauline Lapin is the director for the Seamless Care Models Group (SCMG) in the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). She oversees and provides guidance in the development and implementation of innovative payment and delivery models related to advanced primary care and accountable care organizations, namely the Comprehensive Primary Care Plus, Next Generation ACO, and the Comprehensive ESRD Care models, as well as the recently announced Primary Care First and Direct Contracting initiatives. Her group also manages health plan innovation models in Medicare Parts C and D, including the Medicare Advantage Value-Based Insurance Design, Enhanced Medication Therapy Management, and Part D Modernization models. She has been in federal service at CMS for over 25 years, previously serving as deputy director of SCMG, and as a division director in the office of research, development and information, where she oversaw the design and implementation of a variety of demonstrations, including those related to medical home/advanced primary care practice and prevention.  She holds a master of health science degree from the Bloomberg School of Public Health and is a PhD dropout.

Bryan Lee is vice president of solutions at Apixio. He is a seasoned healthcare executive with over 30 years’ experience working with payers and providers focused in government programs, operations, compliance and payment practices. He possesses a deep understanding of how to build, implement and leverage technology to achieve performance improvement. He has built successful teams focused on providing comprehensive business process and compliance management solutions for Medicare Advantage, Medicaid and Commercial Marketplace health plans. His expertise in CMS transaction processing and regulatory requirements has led to the successful design and implementation of dynamic rules-based healthcare analytic solutions. Mr. Lee has significant P&L management experience with a track record of business growth and profit improvements. He has driven change with his leadership style stressing expectations that align with business goals. This coupled with unwavering accountability at every level of the organization results in the achievement of the desired cultural and financial results.

Reinhold Llerena, MD, serves as president, AMITA Health Medical Group and AMITA Health chief population health officer. He was part of the initial administrative team for the AMITA Health MSSP ACO that ranked in the top 5 in the nation in 2016 and 2017 for shared savings achievement. He is the clinical dyad lead for the AMITA Clinically Integrated Network and its 4300 clinicians. Dr. Reinhold Llerena is a graduate of Georgetown University undergraduate, the University of Illinois (Chicago) Medical School, and family practice residency at Resurrection Medical Center in Chicago. He has been a practicing family physician with AMITA Health since 1998.

Kent Locklear, MD, is the chief medical officer at Lightbeam Health Solutions where he provides over 3 decades of experience in physician leadership and operational healthcare change. He has a passion for healthcare transformation and an in-depth understanding of today’s challenging care delivery environment. He is skilled in leveraging the power of information technology in ways that are both innovative and results oriented. Dr. Locklear is a proven leader with a 25-year track record of success leading teams in a variety of disciplines including clinical transformation, business management and clinical practice. Strategic thinking and a commitment to excellence translate to exceptional results. Change management and communication skills enable relationships with executives and physicians in facilitating technological advancement and clinical transformation. Extensive medical practice and management experience, including both Federal system and private practice, translates to subject matter expertise in a broad range of areas of clinical practice, healthcare technology and workflow. Dr. Locklear holds an MD and MBA from the University of Virginia. Double boarded in family medicine and clinical informatics.

Dr. Joanne Lynn is an experienced geriatrician, educator, quality improvement coach, and researcher.  She works half-time with Representative Tom Suozzi as a Health & Aging Policy fellow and half-time with Altarum, doing data production describing eldercare in counties and evaluating how PACE programs responded to COVID-19.  She was one of the first hospice physicians, a tenured professor at Dartmouth and at George Washington, a medical officer in the Center for Clinical Standards and Policy at CMS, and the director of the Bureau for Cancer and Chronic Disease in the public health office for Washington DC.  Joanne has published 300 professional articles and 80 books and chapters, as well as dozens of white papers, court briefs, and guidelines. In addition to her MD degree, she has a masters in quantitative clinical sciences and a masters in ethics and public policy. She is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, a master in the American College of Physicians, a fellow of the Hastings Center and the American Geriatrics Society, and a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance. 

Melanie Matthews is the dynamic, creative and innovative CEO at Physicians of Southwest Washington (PSW) and president at MultiCare Connected Care. She brings more than 20 years of operations, financial, human resources and product marketing experience in health care services for specialty populations. Her passion for public policy and engaging legislatures has propelled her as the “voice” of physician health policies. Since she joined the company in 2016, Ms. Matthews has maintained the core principals in which PSW was founded on and expanded business lines to include MSO services including credentialing, coding and compliance and the implementation of CMMI innovation models such as the Next Generation ACO. Her extensive knowledge in post-acute care provides strategic focus in reducing overall cost of care as well as provider and beneficiary engagement. Prior to PSW, Ms. Matthews served for three years as vice president of operations for Prestige Care, Inc., where she was responsible for regulatory and financial operations and outcomes for 38 skilled nursing facilities and two Medicare home health agencies in a four-state northwest region. Among her other accomplishments, she serves as co-chair for APG – Risk Evolution Taskforce, was selected by the American Health Care Association as a “National Political Ambassador” in 2013, and was named a national “Future Leader” in 2012.  Ms. Matthews holds a master of science, social gerontology, degree from Central Missouri State University and a bachelor’s degree in human development and family studies from Pennsylvania State University. 

Mark McClellanMD, PhD, is director and professor of business, medicine and policy at the Margolis Center for Health Policy at Duke University. He is a physician-economist who focuses on quality and value in health care, including payment reform, real-world evidence and more effective drug and device innovation. His current work on responding to the COVID-19 public health emergency spans virus containment and testing strategies, reforming health care toward more resilient models of delivering care, and accelerating the development of therapeutics and vaccines. He is former administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and former commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, where he developed and implemented major reforms in health policy. Dr. McClellan is an independent board member on the boards of Johnson & Johnson, Cigna, Alignment Healthcare, and Seer; co-chairs the Guiding Committee for the Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network; and serves as an advisor for Blackstone Life Sciences, Arsenal Capital Partners, and MITRE. 

Michael Meucci is the COO at Arcadia. Michael is responsible for the end-to-end customer life cycle, from the top of the marketing funnel, through renewal. Prior to stepping into the COO role, Michael spent 5 years building and leading Arcadia's high-performing sales and marketing organization, partnering with many of the largest and most innovative organizations in healthcare. Arcadia’s strong and continued growth in its core and adjacent markets is driven by the team’s focus on building successful, sustainable customer partnerships that drive real value. Michael holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Entrepreneurial Leadership from Tufts University.

 

Jennifer Moore is the president of the MaineHealth Accountable Care Organization (MHACO), whose membership includes 10 acute care hospitals and over 1,700 private practice and employed physicians. MHACO contracted with CMS for the Medicare Shared Savings Plan (MSSP) beginning in July 2012 and was successful in its first performance year with MSSP achieving nearly $20 million dollars in savings. Ms. Moore oversees all activities associated with the Medicare Shared Savings Program and numerous commercial ACO value-based contracts.   These ACO contracts cover approximately 240,000 Medicare and commercial lives. She has significant expertise in value-based contracting, ambulatory quality measurement and performance, data analytics, and network management activities.  Prior to her current role, she was the chief operating officer for MHACO.  Ms. Moore has her master’s in business administration and over 25 years of experience in accountable care, physician-hospital organizations and health plans.  She is a past board member of the National Association of Accountable Care Organizations (NAACOs) and served as chair of the NAACOs governance committee.  

Maria Nikol is a senior business consultant with 11 years of experience in healthcare operations and healthcare strategy. Her specialization includes process improvement and the application of emerging models of healthcare delivery such as patient-centered medical homes and accountable care organizations. She holds a master of jurisprudence in health law from Widener University and a bachelor of science in pharmaceutical marketing and management from the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia.

 

Carrie Nixon, Esq. is the co-founder and managing partner of Nixon Gwilt Law, a law firm focused on healthcare innovation. She also serves as special advisor to Empactful Capital, a healthcare venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley. She is an expert in healthcare law and policy issues relating to healthcare innovation, including remote patient monitoring, telehealth, mHealth apps, healthcare predictive analytics, personalized medicine, and value-based delivery/reimbursement models such as ACOs and other APMs. She provides counseling in healthcare regulatory compliance matters and strategy advice regarding business models and healthcare transactions. Ms. Nixon represents digital health companies and healthcare startups, along with hospitals and health systems, individual physicians and large physician groups, pharmacies, and post-acute care providers. 

Colleen Norris is a consulting actuary with Milliman.  She specializes in providing analytical and strategic support to organizations engaging in new models of reimbursing providers. She has helped both providers and payers develop quantitative approaches of understanding and measuring the spectrum of potential risk under a variety of potential arrangements. Colleen's experience includes analyzing changes to provider reimbursement contracts to ensure consistency with desires goals, modeling risk transfers in reimbursement contracts, and developing strategic approaches to manage transferred risks. She has assisted large provider systems with developing models for the appropriate transfer of financial risk to smaller provider units of providers, as well as has provided strategic and tactical planning for provider systems looking to optimize their long-term prospects in the era of increased risk-sharing.  She also has experience with Medicare ACO (MSSP & Next Gen) and MACRA risk impact assessments and strategic planning.  Colleen has experience with using predictive models to help organizations identify, measure, and monitor key risk factors. Her background also includes commercial healthcare benefit plan design, pricing, feasibility studies, and financial modeling. She has developed regulatory filings for health carries, developed underwriting and rating models, and has projected liabilities for incurred but not paid claims.

Stephen Nuckolls currently serves as the chief executive officer of Coastal Carolina Health Care and their ACO, Coastal Carolina Quality Care, Inc. His responsibilities include the direct management of the 50 provider multi-specialty physician-owned medical practice. Additionally, he is responsible for overseeing the daily operations of the medical practice's advanced payment model ACO that was selected by CMS in the initial round in April 2012. Prior to the formation of this organization, Mr. Nuckolls helped guide physicians and integrated hospital organizations in the formation of larger systems. Mr. Nuckolls earned his BA in economics from Davidson College and his MAC from UNC's Kenan-Flagler Business School. He is a founding board member of NAACOS and currently serves as chair.

Andrea Osborne serves as the senior vice president for ACO operations for VillageMD.  She has successfully managed multiple CMMI programs including a Next Generation ACO, a MSSP ACO, and is now launching six direct contracting entities.  Andrea is passionate about the transitions that new models can bring for the provider and patient to improve care delivery and outcomes.  In her time with VillageMD she has provide leadership for a Next Gen ACO that achieved $23M in its first year.  Andrea is a licensed nursing home administrator and her previous experience operating skilled nursing facilities has assisted her in developing multiple national post-acute networks that support ACO population health and care coordination.

Ashish Parikh, MD, is the chief quality officer at Summit Health, where he is responsible for helping providers implement value-based care strategies in clinical practice through reduction in practice variation, evidence-based clinical care delivery, and provider engagement. Dr. Parikh oversees the Universal Provider Incentive Program helping drive providers to achieve optimal patient outcomes and success in value-based contracts. Dr. Parikh went to the University of Miami as part of the honors program in medical education. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and continues to practice primary care internal medicine at Summit Medical Group.

Susan Parker has been with New England Quality Care Alliance (NEQCA) since 2015 working in the capacity of the cardiac care manager. In her current role as cardiac care manager, she is responsible for telephonic and tele-monitoring care management support to NEQCA’S high-risk heart failure patients. Before joining NEQCA, she worked as a clinical manager and nurse case manager at Bayada Home Health Care.   

 

Jennifer Perloff is the director of research at the Institute for Accountable Care and a senior scientist at Brandeis University with over 15 years of evaluation and health services research experience. In addition to supporting ACO analytics for NAACOS, Dr. Perloff is developing a number of new research projects focused on the policy and implementation of population health models including beneficiary attribution, nurse practitioner/ACO staffing and low value care. Dr. Perloff was also on the team that built the Episode Grouper for Medicare (EGM), a comprehensive system with over 800 chronic, acute and treatment episodes designed specifically to assess resource use. She is currently adapting this tool for use with military health data. In addition to bundled/episode payment work, Dr. Perloff has developed a methodology for assessing the value of Medicare Advantage plans, drawing on the principals of hospital value-based payment. In the area of primary care, she has done extensive research on the cost and quality of nurse practitioner lead primary care. Dr. Perloff currently sites on the National Quality Forum’s Scientific Methods Panel and the Heller School Information Security Committee.  

John Pilotte, M.H.P.M., is the director of the Performance-based Payment Policy Group (P3) within the Center for Medicare at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. He manages policy development and operations teams for the Medicare Shared Savings Program, Medicare’s national Accountable Care Organization program with over 500 ACOs accountable for over 10.9 million Medicare beneficiaries. He also managed the development and implementation of Medicare’s Physician Value Modifier, the predecessor to the current Merit-based Incentive Program, as well as resource use measures for physicians, hospitals, and post-acute settings. Prior to joining P3, Mr. Pilotte served as the Director of the Division of Payment Policy Demonstrations in the predecessor of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation where he managed the development and implementation of the Physician Group Practice Demonstrations and care coordination demonstrations. Prior to joining CMS, he was a senior healthcare consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers and part of the government relations team at the National Association of Children’s Hospitals.   Mr. Pilotte has a master’s in health policy and management from Johns Hopkins University and a bachelor of science from Indiana University’s School of Public and Environmental Affairs. 

David Pittman is senior policy advisor at the National Association of ACOs, where he works on various regulatory policy and legislative topics involving ACOs and CMS Innovation Center models. He also works on communications matters for NAACOS. He joined NAACOS in August 2018 as health policy and communications advisor. Before that, he worked as a healthcare journalist for nearly a dozen years, including at POLITICO where he helped launch the website’s eHealth coverage in 2014. He was a fellow of the Association of Health Care Journalists in 2014, researching how states were adopting payment and delivery system reforms as budgets struggled to recover from the recession of the late 2000s. David holds bachelor's degrees in journalism and chemistry from the University of Georgia, where he graduated in 2006. 

Denise B. Prince, MBA, MPH, joined Mount Sinai in 2017 as the senior vice president and chief operating officer for population health. In this role, Denise leads Mount Sinai Health Partners' clinical operations, including care management, provider engagement, quality and utilization management. Prior to joining Mount Sinai, Denise served as system vice president, value-based care and vice president, population health at Geisinger Health System where she led Geisinger's participation in the CMS Innovation Center's Bundled Payment for Care Improvement Initiative and was the chief executive officer for the Keystone ACO. Previously, Denise served as the founder and managing partner for Geisinger Ventures. She was awarded an MBA and MPH from the University of California, Berkeley and her BA from Mount Holyoke College.

David Putrino is a physical therapist with a PhD in neuroscience. He is currently the director of rehabilitation innovation for the Mount Sinai Health System, and an assistant professor of rehabilitation and human performance at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai. He works to develop innovative technology solutions for individuals in need of better healthcare accessibility. Before moving to the United States to study computational neuroscience at Harvard Medical School, MIT and NYU he worked as a clinician in Australia. He has served as a faculty member at Weill-Cornell Medicine and Burke Medical Research Institute. Dr. Putrino currently consults with the Red Bull High Performance division to use evidence-based technologies to improve athletic performance. He is also the “chief mad scientist” of Not Impossible Labs, a group that crowd-sources accessible technological solutions for high-impact humanitarian problems. His research has been featured on the ABC, Sports Illustrated, the Wall Street Journal, the BBC, Time Magazine, TEDx, Wired and the New York Times to name just a few. He is the author of Hacking Health: How to make money and save lives in the HealthTech world. In 2019, he was named "Global Australian of the Year" for his contributions to healthcare. 

Peter Read, MD, is the medical director for Care at Home.  After completing his internal medicine residency at the University of Iowa Des Moines, he joined the UnityPoint Central Iowa Hospitalists.  He spent many years caring for patients with acute medical illnesses and became passionate about transformational care delivery.  In 2018, he had the opportunity to join other transformational care leaders and design UnityPoint’s Hospital to Home and Care at Home Clinic.  

 

Anthony Reed is the vice president of population health strategic solutions, clinical and network services at Ascension Medical Group (AMG), where he has responsibility for all value-based health care programs and contracts for AMG. He also represents Ascension by serving as a speaker and member for several national organizations dedicated to accountable care and alternate-care payment models. Mr. Reed is on the board of directors for NAACOS and has presented at many conferences including the leaders board for population health management, NAACOS conferences, The Hospital and Health System Association of Pennsylvania, xG Health Solutions, Inc and for the Marcus Evans Group.  He is in his 23rd year of work in health care industry and his previous roles include, chief administrative officer for the Keystone Accountable Care Organization, AVP of accountable care initiatives at Geisinger Health, director of business development for Geisinger Diversified Services and program director for VITALine Infusion Pharmacy Services. He also served for seven years as a product director for B. Braun Medical, Inc. with product development responsibilities and gaining FDA and Health Canada approvals for their lines of infusion pumps and accessories. 

Jamie Reedy, MD, is the chief of population health at Summit Health and responsible for ensuring the success of value-based care programs. She provides medical expertise and business direction for population health and quality initiatives that support strategic growth, the continuous improvement of care, wellness and greater value. Dr. Reedy has a bachelor’s degree from New York University and a master’s degree in health policy and management from the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health. She earned her medical degree at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. She is a board member of America’s Physician Groups and NAACOS.

Harry Reese has served as vice president of post-acute and home care at Ochsner Health since December 2016.  His responsibilities include the oversight and strategic planning of post-acute services, along with the development of innovative home-based programs.  He was VP of finance and CFO for Ochsner Medical Center from 2010-2016. Prior to Ochsner, Mr. Reese was president of a home health company in central Florida and spent 17 years with a healthcare system in central Florida, serving as CFO. He earned his B.B.A. from Hofstra University and his M.B.A. from the University of Central Florida.  He is a graduate of the Health Management Academy’s CFO fellowship. 

Megan Reyna is vice president of government and value-based programs for Advocate Aurora Health. Under her leadership, her team leads clinical population health and value transformation projects to assist the organization in achieving national quality and financial targets. She oversees operations for three Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) ACOs. Her responsibilities also include bundle payment program operations, for both BPCI-A and CJR, and MACRA support and sustainment. Ms. Reyna currently serves as chair of the National Association of ACOs (NAACOS) Quality Committee. A registered nurse by background, she received her MSN from University of Illinois Chicago. 

Yolanda Rodriguez, BSN, RN is the vice president of care and disease management at Southwestern Health Resources (SWHR).  As part of the overall strategic operational initiatives to support the ACO for the SWHR Clinically Integrated Network, she leads a successful social determinants of health team that works to understand how patients’ health is driven by complex, interdependent factors and circumstances. In her role, she supports SWHR's goal of setting national standards in population health management. Previous to SWHR, she has over 20 years of managed care/population health leadership experience leading initiatives in both the provider and payor areas.

Rebecca Rohrbach is chief population health officer at NOMS ACO, LLC. She works closely with the champion physicians of the organization to promote transformation of healthcare delivery at NOMS Healthcare. This role entails oversight of a care management team, development of quality incentive scorecards for physicians and team members, evaluation of programs, quality metric reporting, and development of post-acute care networks and management of the ACO. She is also responsible for the exploration and determining feasibility of implementing other CMS innovation programs. Before taking the role of VP of population health for NOMS ACO, LLC, she was a family nurse practitioner. Ms. Rohrbach received her master of science in nursing, specializing in family practice, from the Medical College of Ohio and a doctorate in nursing practice from the University of Toledo in collaboration with Wright State University. 

Aleta Rupert is the program manager for the Accountable Health Communities (AHC) model at AMITA Health. The AHC model is a research project led by CMS to study the impact of personal community service navigation assistance to beneficiaries who screen positive for health-related social needs. In this role, she leads the implementation strategy, process improvement, and most recently, the sustainability planning of the program. Serving as the key liaison between AMITA Health and CMS, she ensures the model integrity, monitors and reports performance metrics, and stewards the funding agreement and budget. Prior to AMITA Health, Ms. Rupert served as director of business operations and strategy at a local free clinic, dedicated to serving the uninsured population west and south of Chicago. 

Mark Schario is vice president of population health and president of UH Quality Care Network, UH Coordinated Care Organization and UH Accountable Care Organization, Inc. for University Hospitals. He is responsible for population health at the system level including leading the UH Accountable Care Organization, the Medicare MSSP ACO and the UH Quality Care Network. He has 35 years of experience in the health care industry. Mr. Schario holds a master of science degree in emergency health services from the University of Maryland and Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems/Shock Trauma and a bachelor of science degree in nursing from the University of Akron.

Chelsea Speth is currently the senior director of strategic partnerships at Aledade, a primary care enablement company that supports a network of 8,000 clinicians across 31 states. In her role, she oversees national payer partnerships and leads growth into new markets through risk-based payment models. Prior to Aledade, she was director of business development at Evolent Health, where she developed long-term partnerships with physician groups under the Next Gen ACO model and launched a physician-led Medicare Advantage health plan. Prior to this, she served as a strategy consultant for health systems on optimizing value-based care programs and for large employers on improving employee health & benefits programs. 

Bob Trinh is the CEO for The Villages Health, a multi-specialty group with 125 clinicians caring for over 60,000 patients including 21,000 full-risk Medicare Advantage lives.  Prior to The Villages Health, he served as division president for the Illinois market at Oak Street Health overseeing 18 clinics, 96 clinicians and serving over 30,000 patients. He also served as market vice president for Orlando and South Florida at DaVita Medical Group responsible for 29 clinics, 69 physicians and 22,000+ Medicare Advantage patients.  He holds an MBA from The Harvard Business School and a BA from The University of South Florida.  

 

Catherine Turbett is vice president of ACO and health plan operations at Arcadia, where she helps customers transition to operating under the principles of value-based care as they assume greater financial risk for producing high-quality, cost-effective patient outcomes. She began her career in practice operations, responsible for the patient experience, in both local and national specialty facilities. She leverages her experience as executive director of national performance operations at Steward Healthcare Network’s ACO where she was responsible for delivering all performance operations. Prior to joining Arcadia, she was the VP of market operations for Lumeris, overseeing quality and STARS for 10 health plans and ACOs.

Terry Ward is the senior vice president of solutions at Apixio. With more than 25 years of health care leadership experience in a variety of operational disciplines including client service, account management, product management, and solution innovation, he has a 360 view of the challenges and opportunities in the health care industry. He has a unique blend of operational detail, product management discipline, and strategic vision with a customer-minded focus. He has created a successful track record of designing and delivering unique and meaningful solutions to the market to address client demand to improve quality while driving efficiency in a collaborative and transparent manner. His ability to develop and deploy insightful initiatives has allowed him to succeed in key leadership positions with industry-leading companies such as McKesson, UnitedHealth Group, Solucient, Change Healthcare, and now Apixio.

Debbie Welle-Powell is the chief population health officer at Essentia Health. In this role, she is responsible for integrating population health management with community health and well-being services to address the social determinants of health. She works with market leaders, payer partners and community stakeholders to develop community-based, population health and risk sharing models that focus on wellness and disease prevention for better health outcomes. Prior to her new appointment, she served as the senior vice-president of accountable care. Essentia Health is a 17 hospital, 1500 provider health system spanning the states of Minnesota, North Dakota, Idaho and Wisconsin.  Essentia is certified as an ACO Level III by NCQA.  As the SVP of accountable care, she led the accountable care division with strategic and operational responsibilities for population care management, system quality, payer strategy and community health with strategic activities to help position Essentia Health as the preferred provider of care.   Prior to Essentia, Ms. Welle-Powell was the vice president of accountable care and payer strategy for SCL Health System, a $3B health care system. As a seasoned executive, she led the strategic and market activities for accountable health readiness while developing innovative products, services, and technologies. Additional focus was on developing a vision, strategy and key tactics to support e-health business.  She has more than twenty years-experience in executive healthcare positions within multi-state regions and integrated provider delivery system. She has extensive experience leading mergers and acquisitions and developing reimbursement and network development strategies supporting a full range of payment models.

Phyllis Wojtusik is executive vice president at Real Time Medical Systems. With over 35 years of healthcare experience in acute care, ambulatory care, and post-acute care, she has participated in the Medicare Shared Savings Program and other value-based contract programs. Prior to Real Time, she led the development of a preferred provider SNF network for PENN Medicine Lancaster General Health. In this network she developed and implemented strategies that reduced total cost of care and readmissions while improving quality measures and patient outcomes. She utilized system approaches, clinical standards and care management tactics to improve coordination and transition of care while reducing post-acute length of stay in a network of non-owned SNFs.