2024 Board of Directors Bios
REBECCA ADKINS
Rebecca Adkins is currently serving as senior vice president of population health at Jefferson Health. Jefferson includes Jefferson Health Plans, Thomas Jefferson University, and Jefferson Health. Jefferson Health provides over 5.6 million outpatient visits a year in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Rebecca has over 20 years’ experience in healthcare working in telehealth, quality, community health and value based care. Rebecca received her bachelors and masters of health administration from Indiana University.
HENISH BHANSALI
Dr. Henish Bhansali is a leader in value-based care (VBC), serving as the chief medical officer of Medical Home Network (MHN), where he leads VBC transformation for 350,000+ Medicaid and Medicare patients at FQHCs across eight states. Previously as VP and senior medical director of care navigation at Oak Street Health, he developed specialty and diagnostic care strategies including network sculpting and integrating e-consults for 100,000+ Medicare Advantage (MA) patients, across 22 states. In 2021, he joined Duly as senior VP of MA, managing a $840M budget for 90,000 full-risk MA and REACH patients, focusing on total cost of care, HEDIS/STARS performance, care model design and delivery, population health, and payor relationships. Dr. Bhansali has formal training in VBC from HBS, serves on the NAACOS Education Committee, is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, is a Presidential Leadership Scholar, and holds board certification in internal and obesity medicine. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of Illinois, teaching population health in their MHA program.
TRAVIS BROOME
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 DUHAMEL BROWER
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.
CLIF GAUS
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.
MELANIE MATTHEWS
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.
JEN MOORE
Jennifer Moore, MBA 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. Jen oversees all activities associated with the Medicare Shared Savings Program and numerous commercial and Medicare Advantage value based contracts, representing over 260,000 Medicare and commercial lives. Jen 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. Jen has her masters in business administration and over 25 years of experience in accountable care, physician-hospital organizations and health plans.
GEOFFREY NICHOLSON
P. Geoffrey Nicholson, Jr., M.D., is the senior vice president of population health at Wellspan. In this roll, Dr. Nicholson oversees WellSpan’s efforts in the areas of overall population health, risk contracting, case management and continuing care. He guides the use of technology to improve value-based performance and co-chair the WellSpan Value and Affordability Council, helping to guide the activities of WellSpan service lines, hospitals and medical group as it relates to value-based care performance. Prior to this role, Dr. Nicholson served as CMIO for WellSpan, and lead executive on Project One, the health system’s multi-year journey to integrate and unify the organization’s electronic health systems to one common platform – Epic. He has successfully facilitated Epic installations at legacy WellSpan hospitals, ambulatory locations and medical practices; as well as a rolling installation across WellSpan Philhaven locations. WellSpan’s Franklin and Cumberland county locations went live with Epic in October of 2020. Dr. Nicholson also led WellSpan’s achievement of HIMSS Stage 7 recognition for both inpatient and ambulatory locations – a designation reached by just 5 percent of hospitals and health systems nationally. And he served on the WellSpan 2025 Strategic Planning Committee. Prior to his appointment as CMIO, Dr. Nicholson served as a hospital informatics specialist at WellSpan from 2007 to 2011, responsible for the health system’s inpatient clinical systems. He began his WellSpan career in 2002 as a hospitalist physician. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Lock Haven University and his medical degree from the University of Maryland. He completed his residency in internal medicine at York Hospital and his board-certified in internal medicine and preventative medicine with a subspecialty in clinical informatics. Dr. Nicholson has also completed Lean for Healthcare training at the University of Tennessee.
STEPHEN NUCKOLLS
Stephen Nuckolls is the chief executive officer of Coastal Carolina Health Care, PA, and its ACO, Coastal Carolina Quality Care, Inc. His responsibilities include the direct management of the 60 provider multi-specialty physician-owned medical practice and its ACO. They currently participate in the MSSP’s Enhanced Track and have value-based contracts with Medicare advantage as well as commercial plans. The group has a large primary care base and their operations include an ambulatory surgery center (GI endoscopy), sleep lab, urgent care, and imaging center and 13 other practice locations. Mr. Nuckolls facilitated the formation of the group in 1997 and has served in his current role since that time. 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 member of the National Association of ACOs and served in a number of roles on the executive committee including board chair from 2016-2017. In addition to these responsibilities, he serves on the board of Community Care of NC as well as several advisory boards and committees for the North Carolina Medical Society and is a frequent speaker on ACOs and related topics.
MARGARITA OLLET
Margarita Ollet, RN, MBA, is the chief operating officer of Health Choice Network, Inc. (HCN) and Health Choice Network of Florida (HCNFL) and chief executive officer of Health Choice Care (HCC). Ms. Ollet has more than 25 years of experience in South Florida’s dynamic health care arena. Her extensive and diverse background both as a health care executive and a registered nurse gives her a unique perspective in addressing the health care challenges faced by the neediest members of the communities served by HCN’s member centers. In addition, Ms. Ollet employs her vast expertise in the clinical and managed care arenas to guide her in directing HCN’s managed care activities and the development, oversight and operations of the network’s MSO infrastructure. She has spearheaded several clinical, care management and disease management initiatives designed to improve access to health care and quality of health care services provided to underserved populations. Ms. Ollet joined Health Choice Network in 1996 after serving as vice president of managed care for Jessie Trice Community Health System. Prior to assuming this position, she worked in similar positions at Management Utilization Review Associates and Jackson Memorial Hospital Health Plan, having launched her clinical nursing career by serving as a clinical registered nurse at Jackson Memorial Hospital. Ms. Ollet received an MBA in health services administration from the University of Miami and a bachelor of science in nursing from Florida International University. She is a certified health care risk manager and holds a certificate from the American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Providers.
ARSHAD RAHIM
Arshad Rahim, MD, has worked for Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) Population Health and the associated CIN for the last six years with the primary goal to help transform health care delivery in the greater New York City and create a model of value-based care excellence. In his current role, he serves as chief medical officer and senior vice president for MSHS Population Health and for the Mount Sinai Clinically Integrated Network, which includes 7,000 employed and community providers. Dr. Rahim has over 20 years of healthcare industry leadership experience at innovative organizations and companies including as vice president of quality for Essence Healthcare and Lumeris, a population health and analytics company. He also served as group vice president of quality improvement and innovation at Healthgrades where he built, led and helped deliver, coast to coast, quality measurement and quality improvement services. They had annual revenues of about $25M a year and impacting physician and provider behavior was a key value proposition of our work. He was also a director at Sg2, a health care intelligence, analytics, and services company for many hospitals and health systems, where he developed his analytic and statistical skills. Dr. Rahim has a BA in economics from Duke University, an MD from the University of North Carolina, and an MBA from Emory University. He completed his internal medicine residency at Yale University and Northwestern University. He is an actively practicing primary care internist and hospitalist at the Mount Sinai Hospital.
JENNY REED
Jenny Reed is the senior vice president of value-based care for Baylor Scott & White Health and the executive administrator for the Baylor Scott & White Quality Alliance (BSWQA), BSWH’s clinically integrated network and accountable care organization. As the leader of the BSWQA’s senior leadership team, Jenny guides the strategy development, long and short-term goals as well as overall alignment and organizational initiatives. She also oversees quality management for government programs as well as value-add contracts for local and national employers. During Jenny’s tenure, BSWQA has generated more than $410 million in savings over the last five years (2018-2022) and is consistently among the top savers in the nation. Jenny is a Louisiana native who earned her bachelor of science degree from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and holds a master of social work from Louisiana State University.
MEGAN REYNA
Megan Reyna is responsible for practice transformation for enterprise population health, Advocate Health. Under her leadership, Ms. Reyna’s team leads the value-based care practice transformation support, government programs, ambulatory quality improvement and condition management and documentation (clinical risk adjustment) to assist the organization in achieving national quality and value-based care outcomes across Enterprise. In her role, she oversees the performance of 2.3 million patients in value-based contracts inclusive of six MSSP ACOs, two REACH ACOs and four CINs. She has been a featured speaker and panelist on the topic of ACOs and value-based care at numerous national conferences and is the past chair of NAACOS quality committee. A registered nurse by background, Ms. Reyna received her MSN from the University of Illinois Chicago.
REBECCA ROHRBACH
Rebecca Rohrbach, DNP, has been in healthcare for 30 years. She currently serves as the chief population health officer for NOMS ACO, LLC. She was a family nurse practitioner until 7 years ago when she took the role as vice president of population health for NOMS ACO, LLC. Rebecca 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. As a result, many of our primary care providers are CPC+ track 2 and the orthopedics’ participation in BPCI-A total lower extremity joint bundle payment programs. Rebecca received her master of science in nursing specializing in family practice from the Medical College of Ohio in 2001 and a doctorate in nursing practice from the University of Toledo in collaboration with Wright State University in 2015.
ANTHONY VALDES
Anthony joined WellCare Health Plans (now Centene Corporation) in 2013 and is the president of Collaborative Health Systems. Previously, he served as the National Medicaid vice president of market performance. Before joining WellCare, Anthony held a number of positions of increasing leadership responsibility, including vice president of physical medicine for Healthways, chief executive officer of Maryland Medicaid health plan for UnitedHealth Group, and several financial management positions for The Procter & Gamble Company. Anthony received a bachelor’s degree in finance from Florida State University and an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.