Prior to her role in the Governors Office, she served as the Chief Policy Officer for the Washington Health Benefit Exchange for nine years. Jodi Manz, MSW serves as the Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Resources in the Office of Governor Ralph Northam, a role she continued after serving four years under former Governor Terry McAuliffe. in both Economics and Psychology from the University of California, Davis, before earning a Masters in Social Work (M.S.W) from Columbia University. He was elected to the Denver Board of Education in 2001 and 2005. During her tenure the State of Utah implemented Medicaid reform through the creation of Medicaid Accountable Care Organizations. Doug has worked in the mental health and substance use disorder field for over 24 years in various capacities as a direct service provider and administrator. Mr. Steffen holds a Masters Degree from American University and has completed post-graduate work at the University Of Michigan. Joe Bryant is currently the Health Care Policy Advisor to Governor John C. Carney (Delaware). Rep. Gattine has over 25 years of experience in implementing and operating programs designed to deliver more effective and efficient health care. He moved to Columbia in 2001 and in 2008, joined the behavioral health services research division at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. Tom Curtis serves as the manager of Quality Improvement and Program Development for Medicaid managed care at the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS). The Office of the Health Insurance Commissioner was created in 2005 to oversee both health insurance regulation and health policy for the state. In this role, Ms. Schell-Guy provides legal advice, guidance and policy making support to the NYS OASAS Commissioner, agency Executive staff and all agency divisions. Mr. Cardenas has played a critical role in the shaping of important health coverage legislation in Maryland including the Maryland Easy Enrollment Health Insurance Program. Building on the roadmap, this toolkit provides additional concrete resources for states. Highlights include the work she did with the Ohio Department of Health to define food deserts and the communities impacted by them. The Office of the Health Insurance Commissioner was created in 2005 to oversee both health insurance regulation and health policy for the state. Dr. Pearson is also a Lecturer in the Department of Population Medicine at Harvard Medical School. A lifelong Oklahoman, Ashley has dedicated herself to the people of Oklahoma. She earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Houston Honors College and her Masters in Public Health at the Richard Fairbanks School of Public Health at Indiana University. in Psychology from Virginia Tech. Jeremy Vandehey, J.D. Mr. Allen has served in various public health capacities. Michelle has over a decade of experience working in public health and management. Ms. Dickerson holds a Masters degree in Health Services Administration from Central Michigan University and a Bachelors degree in Health Education from Otterbein University, Westerville, Ohio. Executive Office of Health and Human Services, Opening Plenary | Keynote Address from Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker and State Leaders Respond with a Snapshot of their Efforts to Address Health Care Costs, Access, and Delivery. Prior to joining the Department of Health in 2005, Ms. Chacon served as the Director of the Office of Recovery Services, Utah Department of Human Services which is the Child Support Enforcement agency for the state of Utah. These include working as a Disease Intervention Specialist, HIV Program Manager and the Chief of the Center for Health Promotion. Prior to leading Medicaid, Richard was the Deputy Secretary for DHHS Behavioral Health and Developmental Disability Services and the State Operated Healthcare Facilities divisions. In addition, Joe has several years of experience as a professional mental health counselor. Born and raised in Alaska, Mr. Lasley has 25 years of business management and organizational leadership experience with a passion for elders and promoting public health. Executive Director He volunteers at a local community health center in Bostons South End. Dr. Straus was responsible for the expansion of MCPAP to include MCPAP for Moms to address perinatal depression, mental illness, and substance use. The set of covered services can vary based on the availability and affordability of services and by payer preferences. Prior to this appointment, Dr. Oliver served as the Deputy Commissioner for Population Health for VDH. Heather also coordinates the Hawaii Vaccines For Children (VFC) Program which supplies hundreds of thousands of doses of vaccine annually to VFC-participating providers for administration to Hawaiis eligible children. Backed by decades of real estate experience, Edina Realty is your trusted property source in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Jeff Tate is an American politician. Dr. Droppers is an adjunct faculty member at the OHSU-PSU School of Public Health. Heather Winfield-Smith is the Vaccine Supply and Distribution Section supervisor for the Hawaii Department of Health, Immunization Branch. She has over 20 years of experience in various public health settings providing needs assessment, policy development and quality assurance at local, state and national levels. He is excited to learn and collaborate to improve the health and well-being of the individuals, families, and communities who call Virginia home. State Representative, She is pursuing her degree at Oklahoma State University, majoring in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology with a minor in Political Science. Barbara Paulson is the DC Department of Behavioral Health Deputy Director, Child and Youth Services. Mehlman Castagnetti Rosen & Thomas. Richard N. Gottfried has chaired the NY State Assembly Health Committee since 1987 and represents a district in Manhattan. Palliative Care in Medicaid Costing Out the Benefit: Actuarial Analysis of Medicaid Experience. In his new role, he is engaging in efforts related to the opioid epidemic, maternal/child health, value-based payment, and the social drivers of health. Born and raised in NH, Ms. Bresaw received her Master of Social Work Degree in 2004 from the University of New Hampshire, with a concentration in community and administrative practice. Within that role, her focus is on person-centered strategy and innovation. Her work in the private sector includes working in public affairs for a national health care provider covering 14 states. She assists the Directorate, Administration and State Legislature in determining program direction consistent with legislative intent and consults with the Director and State Medicaid Director on issues of significant policy impact involving both Medi-Cal and CHIP. Rosa Maria Puente, 79 - Feb 9, 2021. , 66 - Jan 6, 2021. She conducts interdisciplinary work on planning for hazards and risks in order to reduce physical and social vulnerabilities and seek ways to build resilience in vulnerable, marginalized communities. As a senior, he successfully defended his thesis paper, Concussions in sports: How educated are athletes about this diagnosis? In 2012, he graduated from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, with a M.S. Past Addresses: po box 176. in Industrial and Operations Engineering and her Master of Public Health from the University of Michigan. A lifelong Oklahoman, Ashley has dedicated herself to the people of Oklahoma. Dr. Smith was a clinical administrator at Bellevue with responsibility for Forensic, Psychiatric Emergency and Substance Abuse Services. Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission, Curbing Costs to Achieve Affordability in the Health Care System. She joined ADPH in January 2011, and served as Assistant State Health Officer for Disease Control and Prevention and State Epidemiologist before taking her current position. The APM initiative has gained attention nationally from CMS as the first state Medicaid to initiate an APM intended to reduce prescription and healthcare costs. Meredith Ray-LaBatt, MA, MSW, works as the Deputy Director of the Division of Integrated Service for Children and Families at the New York State Office of Mental Health. Under her leadership, and in a short amount of time, the health department made great strides in transforming the culture and public health practice by embedding health equity in the health departments work. Executive Director Prior to her appointment as State Medicaid Director, she served for two years as the Assistant Secretary for Aging and Disability Services Administration in the Department of Social and Health Services. Silver State Health Insurance Exchange. She handled a broad variety of cases on behalf of the United States, its agencies and employees. Ms. Wishner left the Southwest Womens Law Center to spend more time on health care policy work. Upload and store your family photos, videos, records, and sources on Geni. Rhode Island Department of Health. Heidi Haley-Franklin is the Vice President, Programs at the MN ND chapter of the Alzheimers Association in Minneapolis, MN. He previously served as director of Nebraskas Division of Child and Family Services and sits on national boards, including the Child Welfare League of America. Her background is in community-based services for older adults, and she is the author of Connecticut Elder Law, a treatise that is republished each year. with high honors from the University of Texas at Austin and her undergraduate degree with honors from Harvard University. Most recently Zimmerman has been working as a Vice President at Hennepin Healthcare, but prior to that she served as Minnesotas State Medicaid Director for 4 years, and several roles at DHS over the past decade that included leading the development and launch of the departments purchasing reform initiatives including direct provider contracting through the Integrated Health Partnership program, managed care organization oversight and purchasing reforms, and integrated managed care products for seniors and people with disabilities. Marylou Sudders serves as the Secretary of Health and Human Services for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, overseeing 12 agencies and MassHealth, with a combined budget of $24 billion and 22,000 public employees delivering essential services that touch the lives of 1 in 4 state residents. In her current role, Ms. Bresaw provides ongoing technical assistance and support to key sectors to ensure the use of best practice approaches in public health and prevention. Sarah holds a DMD degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine as well as a Masters in Public Health Administration from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He oversees the maintenance and reform of payment methodologies for inpatient and outpatient hospitals, Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), Rural Health Clinics (RHCs), and pharmaceuticals. California Department of Health Care Services, Medicaid in an Era of Policy Unpredictability and Enrollment Shifts. Ana Novais holds a masters degree in Clinical Psychology, UCLN, Belgium, and is a graduate of the Northeastern Public Health Leadership Institute, University at Albany, and Leadership RI. She has consulted with NASHP on legal analysis and proposals for how state all-payer claims databases can move forward following the Supreme Courts decision in Gobeille v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. and on state strategies to control health care prices. After serving one term as a Representative in the Maine House, Heather ran for the State Senate and is currently serving her first term, representing part of Portland and Westbrook, Maine. Dr. Tisha Holmes is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at Florida State University. As the Project Manager for Wisconsin PROMISE, Dr. Hartman, has been coordinating and leading the PROMISE inter-agency leadership and work groups, including facilitating a inter-agency Management Information System (MIS) for PROMISE program evaluation and data analysis. This work includes initiating the Oregon Rural Peer Network for Supportive Housing and crafting a Permanent Supportive Housing program in Oregon. He is the recipient of numerous NIMH and foundation grants for studies of engagement strategies for persons with SMI, services for persons with first episode psychosis, and care management approaches for high-need persons with SMI. He is a physician, researcher, and public servant dedicated to improving health for vulnerable populations. Ben previously served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the North Carolina Community Health Center Association (NCCHCA) during a 10-year period of unprecedented growth in organizations, clinical sites and patients served. He helped lead Governor Northams successful Medicaid expansion efforts that included strategic planning, policy design, fiscal analysis, stakeholder engagement, legislative negotiations, and communications. Prior to joining the Department of Health in May of 2019, he worked as Senior Policy Advisor for Health in the Office of Governor Andrew Cuomo under the Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services. She is a member of the Board of Directors on the Connecticut Health Insurance Exchange (d/b/a Access Health CT). Ben Steffen serves as the Executive Director of the Maryland Health Care Commission. In her current role as Deputy Director, Ana is charged with implementing the Departments strategic priorities across all divisions and assuring the alignment of departmental resources and operations with these priorities. Kevin graduated with a B.A. Working across divisions, he is leading managed care strategic planning and working on establishing performance metrics along with other major tasks of managing this large program. Prior to this, Ashley managed the Maternal and Child Health Division at the Medicaid agency to improve access to and enhance services for women and children eligible for Medicaid. Former member of the PA Supreme Court Elder Law Task Force and Advisory Council on Elder Justice in the Courts, and current member of the PA Judicial Conduct Board. Chief Executive Officer Dr. Dowler joined NC DHHS as the Chief Medical Officer for North Carolina Medicaid in 2019. Once the direct care benefit cost amount was calculated, an additional 20 percent was added to the overall cost to account for indirect costs such as milage reimbursement, software costs, administration, training, and certifications. Cohen is a member of the International Advisory Board of the Sambhavna Clinic in Bhopal, India, which has been working for over 25 years to heal people affected by the Bhopal gas tragedy and to fight for environmental cleanup in Bhopal. She has more than thirty years experience in Aging programs, the last 10 years focused on transportation for older adults and people with disabilities. Quality Management and Special Initiatives Section, Wisconsin Department of Human Services. Vertical Health Care Consolidation on the Rise: Whats a State To Do? He previously served two Governors for Washington state as senior health policy advisor. This is due to the acute care cost largely being covered by Medicare for these members. Her background is in community-based services for older adults, and she is the author of Connecticut Elder Law, a treatise that is republished each year. Alex Blandford oversees and executes the CSG Justice Centers health policy portfolio and works to improve access to health care for people in the criminal justice system through federal, state, and local policy. She competed a Ph.D. in Public Policy at the John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global States at the University of Massachusetts Boston in 2019. As a California native, Amir earned his B.A. Richard believes the right way to achieve success is to work closely with stakeholders in all aspects of Medicaid. Matthew Statman LMSW, CAADC is Manager of the University of Michigan Collegiate Recovery Program, Adjunct Lecturer at the Eastern Michigan University School of Social Work, private social work practitioner and member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers. The recipient of a number of awards for her research, Dr. Mello was elected to the National Academy of Medicine at the age of 40. Both State agencies are responsible for promoting the transparency of health care costs and quality in the State of Maine. He is nationally known on the topic of program integrity and has presented at numerous national conferences on this subject. Richard joined DHHS after leading The Arc of North Carolina, an advocacy and service organization for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, as its Executive Director for 24 years. Minnesota Department of Health. Medical Director Read Full Summary Court & Arrest Records View All. Michelle Alletto serves as the Texas Health and Human Services Chief Program and Services Officer. Daniel Tsai is the Assistant Secretary for MassHealth and Medicaid Director for the Commonwealth. May not be published or otherwise distributed without explicit permission |. Executive Director Executive Director As Program Director, Ms. Bresaw works in close coordination with the Governors Office, the NH Department of Business and Economic Affairs, and the Community Development Finance Authority to administer the initiative. She led Maines Governors Office of Health Policy and Finance, and was Federal liaison during the ACA deliberations. Patti Killingsworth is an Assistant Commissioner for TennCare and the Chief of Long-Term Services & Supports (LTSS). Davis. Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services, Illinois Council on Developmental Disabilities. Eileen recently retired after working at Kaiser Permanente (formerly Group Health Cooperative) in Seattle for the past forty years. Alana Knudson, PhD, serves as a Program Area Director in the Public Health Department at NORC at the University of Chicago and is the Co-Director of NORCs Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis. Additionally, Mr. Allen works in partnership with national public health organizations, state cabinet-level agencies and a variety of public health programs to target services to disenfranchised groups, measure program performance and assess outcomes. Additionally, if funding is unavailable for the addition of a new benefit, a state will often have to show that a newly covered benefit would be cost neutral overall. Dr. Landry holds a Bachelors degree in Chemistry from Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas and a Masters degree in Business Administration (MBA) from the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. Linette Scott, MD, MPH, is the Chief Medical Information Officer and the Deputy Director of the Information Management Division in the California Department of Health Care Services. Previously, she was Director of the Health Care Services Division of the Medicaid program. Brian Comerford. Continue review of health and hospital projects for potential state system data matching and housing initiative opportunities. He is the Chair of the Board of Directors for Reveal Rx, a technology company that enables the review of pharmacy claims by health plans and PBMs. Dr. Alegra is the Principal Investigator (PI) of four National Institutes of Health(NIH)-funded research studies and a grant funded by the William T. Grant Foundation. Addressing the cost of health care through alternative payment and delivery models has been the focus of the Offices reform agenda. Assistant Secretary Tsai lives with his wife and son in Cambridge. Barbara is a Licensed Independent Social Worker in the District, and an LCSW in Maryland. Expanding the Menu: Data Sources for Policy Action. Cohen is President and Co-Founder of Practice Greenhealth and Health Care Without Harm. Dr. Theriot served as the director of the General Pediatrics Clinical Research Unit and prior to that as the medical director of the Children and Youth Project; a multidisciplinary primary care clinic serving the inner-city high-risk children of Louisville Kentucky. Prior to this appointment, she served as the Deputy State Health Commissioner and Director for Health Outcomes at the Indiana State Department of Health. These figures were used to calculate the direct care minutes per month required for each service and are shown in Appendix III. Ms. Dickerson has over 30 years of experience in the field of public health and strategic policy development. Under the waiver, five independent pilot programsare currentlybeing implemented. Mr. Allen has served in various public health capacities. He led the Governors health and related strategic vision, goals and policy initiatives, including long term care. In addition, Joe has several years of experience as a professional mental health counselor. Mark Greenberg is a Senior Fellow at the Migration Policy Institute in Washington, D.C. His work focuses on immigration issues affecting children and families and implications of immigration enforcement and policy for health and human services programs and agencies. Erica holds a bachelors degree in Psychology. Jennings Policy Strategies Inc. Chris Jennings is a decades-long health policy veteran of the White House, the Congress and the private sector. She earned her BS in psychology and BA in French from the Pennsylvania State University and her MPH at the Graduate School of Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh. Secretary Arkansas Department of Human Services Prior to that, she was a Trial Attorney for the Department of Justice Civil Division in Washington, D.C. She also spent over a decade in law firm practice focusing on business and financial litigation. Prior to joining ICER, Sarah spent six years in the corporate communications and investor relations department at a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company, and several years with a health care communications firm. Department of Behavioral Health.
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