Rebecca Adkins is currently serving as SVP 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. Ms. Adkins has over 20 years’ experience in health care working in telehealth, quality, community health and value-based care. She received her bachelors and masters of health administration from Indiana University.
Henish Bhansali is a physician executive in Medicare Advantage (MA) and a practicing internist. He joined Duly Health and Care in 2021 as their SVP of MA, overseeing care model design and delivery, TCoC management, HEDIS, payor relationships, risk adjustment and MA expansion. Prior to Duly, he was Oak Street’s SMD and VP of care navigation leading clinical strategy for diagnostic and specialty care for 100K+ patients across 20 states. Prior to Oak Street, he led primary care education of over 50 internal medicine residents as an associate program director with the University of Chicago for five years. Dr. Bhansali trained in internal medicine and was chief resident at Washington University-Barnes Jewish Hospital. Post-residency, he directed BJH’s readmission reduction program and WU’s Global Health Program. His current focus is on improving the MA care model and he is pursuing a masters of public policy from the University of Chicago. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, a member of the AOA Medical Honor Society and is board certified in both internal and obesity medicine.
Sue Birch serves as the director of the Washington State Health Care Authority (HCA), the state’s largest healthcare purchaser, and its behavioral health authority. Ms. Birch oversees efforts to transform the healthcare system, leading efforts to combat the opioid crisis through increased access to treatment and education. Ms. Birch also led efforts to eliminate hepatitis C through value-based drug purchasing and implemented a Medicaid benefit for supportive housing and supported employment. Under Birch’s leadership, Washington implemented Cascade Care, the first-in-nation public option, as well as being an integral partner in Washinton achieving the first ever long-term care state insurance program, WA Cares.
Cameron Berg, MD, FACEP, FAAEM, is Pearl’s executive vice president of clinical strategy. Dr. Berg received his BA from Pomona College, his MD with honors from The George Washington University School of Medicine, and then completed specialty training in emergency medicine at Stanford. Dr. Berg worked as an emergency physician while developing an interest in population health and cultivated a passion for disambiguating complicated workflows.
Ish Bhalla is medical director of behavioral health value transformation at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina. Dr. Bhalla leads the design and delivery of innovative payment arrangements for people with behavioral health disorders. He is passionate about using policy and financial incentives to drive access to high quality behavioral health care with a focus on prevention and population health. Prior to joining Blue Cross NC, Dr. Bhalla conducted research at UCLA regarding health care utilization patterns of people with behavioral health disorders. He was a medical director at Landmark Health, a value-based provider for a complex Medicare population.
Jenn Booker is the senior vice president of population health at Upperline Health, a national, multi-specialty practice participating in ACO REACH. She is a strategic operations executive and licensed clinical social worker. Ms. Booker has spent the last 10+ years of her career in leadership roles supporting value-based care operations across different settings ranging from large clinically integrated networks of hospital health systems to niche startups. She has an extensive background in program design and development, operational management, patient engagement, payer contracting, strategic initiatives and change management.
Tori Bratcher is director of alternative payment models (APMs) for Trinity Health. She is responsible for the strategy and operations of Trinity’s national alternative payment models, including being the ACO executive for the Trinity Integrated Care MSSP, one of the nation’s largest ACOs. Within the ACO, she is accountable for compliance, quality reporting, network management and ACO governance. Ms. Bratcher works collaboratively with system and local physician and business unit leaders to drive population health and clinical integration success with the providers and practices across the system. Prior to her role at Trinity, she was the executive director of population health operations at Indiana University Health where she managed a portfolio of risk contracts and the teams that drove population health success. Ms. Bratcher graduated with a masters in health administration from University of Illinois Chicago and bachelors in biology and pre-med from Indiana Wesleyan University.
Emily Brower serves as SVP 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 VP 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. 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.
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.
Diwen Chen is senior director of payer policy for NAACOS and leads work in accountable care arrangements across payers, identifying policy and sharing operational solutions that encourage adoption, growth and success in value-based contracts. She has 15 years of experience in value-based care and payment model design and implementation. Previously, Ms. Chen served as the VP of payment innovation and value-based solutions for Elevance Health. She was also senior director of payment models at Aetna/CVS, launching programs such as the next generation of commercial ACOs, prospective ortho bundled payments and hospital at home care programs and home recovery. Ms. Chen currently serves as a managing director and advisor for Monarch Advisory Services, a firm supporting community-based organizations and risk-bearing entities for vulnerable populations. She received her MPH in health care management from Yale School of Public Health and BS in biology from Texas A&M University.
Robert Daley is the director of legislative affairs at NAACOS where he contributes to developing the association’s federal advocacy strategy on legislative, political and regulatory issues. He has over a decade of experience in government relations and advocacy. Prior to joining NAACOS, he worked in the public policy practice at an Am 100 law firm consulting on a wide range of health care issues. He also spent six years working on Capitol Hill, where he gained a thorough understanding of the legislative process and the role stakeholders play in the development and implementation of public policy. He draws on this experience to help manage relationships with lawmakers to effectively communicate the association’s priorities during the policymaking process. Since joining NAACOS, Mr. Daley has helped secure favorable policy changes on several value-based care initiatives, including the passage of legislation extending financial incentive payments for ACOs participating in Advanced Alternative Payment Models (APMs).
Deb Dittberner, MD, MBA, is a physician leader passionate about value-based care and innovative primary care models that deliver team-based, patient-centered care. She serves as a regional medical director for Aledade supporting eastern North Carolina and large primary care clinical systems throughout the state. She also works with numerous teams within Aledade that develop system approaches to diabetes care, patient engagement, patient experience and star performance. She graduated with her MD from the University of Minnesota and completed her MBA through the University of Texas. She practiced full spectrum family medicine in rural Minnesota including obstetrics and served her health system as chief medical officer for more than ten years. She was one of the founding physician board members and eventually board chair of the Central Minnesota Health Network ACO. She has also served as president of the Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians and as physician delegate to the American Hospital Association regional policy board.
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. He came to Mount Sinai in March of 2018 as the SVP and CMO for population health. He 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.
Wilson Gabbard, FACHE, is the vice president of quality and clinical risk adjustment for Advocate Aurora Health, where he is responsible for enterprise population health and medical group quality for over 1.3 million value-based lives and risk adjustment strategy for over $3 billion in system risk-based revenue. He co-leads the system’s Medicare Advantage (MA) core team that is responsible for driving performance in MA joint ventures, full risk and shared savings contracts. Previously, Mr. Gabbard spent seven years leading population health operations for UNC Health Care where he was responsible for strategy and operations during its transition from fee-for-service to value-based reimbursement.
Jennifer Gasperini is the director of regulatory and quality affairs for NAACOS where she works on federal regulatory issues facing ACOs. Ms. Gasperini brings 10 years of health policy experience on both the state and national levels. She came to NAACOS from the North Carolina Medical Society (NCMS) where she served as the director of health policy, working on a variety of state and federal health policy issues concerning physicians. Before joining the NCMS, she worked at the National Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) where she focused on federal legislative and regulatory issues pertaining to physician quality and payment including ACO issues, and value-based payment programs such as PQRS and the Value Based Payment Modifier. Ms. Gasperini holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism, minor in political science from the Pennsylvania State University and a master’s degree in legislative affairs from the George Washington University.
Rick Goddard, MS-HSM, is the vice president, head of commercialization and strategy for Lumeris, an operating partnership company, that supports organizations where they are at in the journey to managing value-based care risk. Lumeris’ comprehensive value-based toolkit, experienced human capital and technology services provide end-to-end support for our partners. As the head of commercialization and strategy, Mr. Goddard serves in a subject matter expert and utility role across many facets of the business. His current role includes leading partnership strategic alliances, business model expansion and go-to-market commercialization. Mr. Goddard serves as a national thought leader in value-based healthcare strategy and frequently presents to higher education and association organizations.
Megan Guinn is the director of clinical improvement for BJC Healthcare ACO and BJC Medical Group. Ms. Guinn has 18 years of clinical nursing experience in a variety of healthcare settings including inpatient, outpatient, health plan, clinical operations and value-based care. She is an experienced healthcare administrator with a demonstrated history of executing value-based care performance strategies, including Medicare Shared Savings Program ACO clinical operations, quality measure performance and improvement initiatives and achievement of strategic directives.
Dave Henriksen serves as vice president of clinical operations for Castell, where he leads the company’s efforts to operationalize value-based clinical care models. He also works as the COO of a new clinically integrated network with UCHealth and Intermountain in Colorado. Mr. Henriksen brings many years of experience in clinical operations at Intermountain Healthcare, as well as targeted leadership in advancing Intermountain’s understanding of value-based care. He has been integral to the early successes of its value-based care model called Reimagined Primary Care, having led the development and implementation in clinics across the health system. He has served in various operational roles at Intermountain including, region operations officer and assistant operations officer. Prior, he worked at Kaiser Permanente where he managed clinics and completed an administrative fellowship. Mr. Henriksen received an MHA from the University of Minnesota.
Jake Hochberg is the vp of analytics and chief analytics officer at Arcadia, where he works with Arcadia’s customers to deliver ad-hoc analytics that help them overcome hurdles and reach their healthcare goals. He also acts as a subject matter expert on risk adjustment analytics, medical economics and he oversees the delivery of new IP in Arcadia’s Bindery and Vista product offerings. Mr. Hochberg’s favorite thing about his role is the ability to deeply analyze such a massive, comprehensive data set and the discoveries that process yields.
Kimberly Kauffman is vice president of clinical performance at Aledade, Inc. In this role, she supports value-based care (VBC) contracts with CMS/CMMI, Medicare Advantage, commercial health plans and Medicaid managed care by working with teams that specialize in clinical documentation integrity, quality reporting, pharmacy, clinical outcomes improvement, patient outreach and post-acute coordination. Prior to joining Aledade, Ms. Kauffman was the chief VBC officer for MaxHealth, a primary care group based in Florida with over 120 providers, and, before that, was chief VBC officer for Summit Medical Group, a primary care group with over 300 providers based in Tennessee. Her background includes a leadership role in a large independent physicians’ association (IPA) in Florida and in a multi-hospital physician hospital organization (PHO). Ms. Kauffman received her masters degree from the college of public health at the University of Florida.
Emily Levi is a public health professional specializing in value-based care programs, policy and advocacy. For the last eight years, she has led healthcare organization participation in various CMMI and CMS programs. In her current role with the MaineHealth ACO, Ms. Levi manages “all things CMS”, supporting learning and decision-making for both the health system and the ACO on new VBC models, as well as manages VBC model participation in various programs, including MSSP, MIPS and Primary Care First.
Danielle Lloyd is the SVP of private market innovations and quality initiatives for America’s Health Insurance Plans. She is responsible for policy development and trend analysis in provider payment models, quality measurement, health information technology and privacy. She serves as chair of the steering committee for the Core Quality Measure Collaborative (CQCM). With 25 years of experience in healthcare policy, Ms. Lloyd has also worked on health care issues for a congressional committee, governmental agency, for-profit company and hospital associations. She has a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and an MPH from the University of California, Berkeley, and a certificate in technology and innovation advancement from the MIT xPRO.
Cheryl Lulias is the president and CEO of Medical Home Network (MHN), a leader in value-based care enablement, which is dedicated to transforming care in the safety net, reducing disparities and building healthier communities. Ms. Lulias also serves as the president and CEO of MHN REACH ACO and MHN Health Alliance ACO, which partner with federally qualified health centers across the country to help them build the capabilities to succeed under value-based care. Today MHN operates in seven states impacting 300,000 lives in Medicaid and Medicare.
Robert Mechanic, MBA, is executive director of the Institute for Accountable Care, where he is responsible for leading its research agenda, data analytics and health care learning and improvement activities. Mr. Mechanic is a senior fellow at the Heller School of Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University, where he serves as executive director of the Health Industry Forum. His research focuses on health care payment systems and the adaptation of organizations to new payment models. He has helped hospitals, physician groups and integrated delivery systems evaluate financial, strategic and policy considerations under risk-based payment models. He was previously senior vice president with the Massachusetts Hospital Association and vice president with the Lewin Group, a Washington D.C.-based health care consulting firm. His work has been published in The New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, and Health Affairs. He is a trustee of Atrius Health, and he is a senior fellow of the Estes Park Institute. Mr. Mechanic earned an MBA in finance from The Wharton School and a BS in economics with distinction from the University of Wisconsin.
Stacy Meyr serves as president of the Saint Alphonsus Health Alliance, a clinically integrated network sponsored by Saint Alphonsus Health System, part of Trinity Health. Her role includes oversight for community impact improvements and community benefit for the mission-driven organization. She has more than 20 years’ experience in managed care, population health management, new health plan launches and market expansion. Other prior roles include VP of value-based strategy and operations for Athletico Physical Therapy and national director of provider engagement and population health for Lumeris and national director of population health (Medicaid) for Aetna. Ms. Meyr holds a DC degree from Logan University and a BS from Southeast Missouri State University.
Adam Myers has the great fortune of having led in nearly every component of the health care delivery system. Dr. Myers is a frequent advisor, speaker and advocate in key conversations at all levels. Most recently, he served as the chief clinical transformation officer for Blue Cross Blue Shield Association. Previously, Dr. Myers served as the Cleveland Clinic’s chief of population health, chief medical and operations officer of Texas Health Resources Physician Enterprise and board member of the Joint Commission.
Alyssa Neumann, MPH is senior analyst of regulatory affairs at NAACOS, where she works on a variety of regulatory issues related to ACOs and value-based care. Prior to NAACOS, Alyssa served as program coordinator at the Primary Care Collaborative, writing and managing grant projects related to primary care transformation and providing support for policy work and communications. She is an active volunteer in the community, working as a mentor with the Big Brother Big Sister program and a teaching fellow with Girls Health Ed, providing vital health information to vulnerable youth.
Other prior experiences include work as a graduate teaching assistant in Biostatistics at the George Washington University, a Federal Affairs internship with the National Association of Community Health Centers, and university research focused on topics such as behavioral health, health literacy, and the social drivers of health. Alyssa earned her Master’s in Public Health in Health Policy and Management at the GWU Milken Institute School of Public Health, and she holds Bachelor of Arts degrees in Political Sociology and Cultural Anthropology from the University of South Florida.
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. 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.
Ashish Parikh is the chief population health officer of Village MD, Summit Health. Dr. Parikh is responsible for developing strategies for delivery of the highest quality of care with a focus on value through reduction in practice variation, evidence-based clinical care delivery, population health management, as well as provider and patient engagement across all VillageMD and Summit Health practices. Prior to joining Summit Health, Dr. Parikh was the senior health and quality advisor at IBM and the internal medicine residency program director at Saint Barnabas Medical Center.
Jennifer Perloff, PhD, is 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 IAC, Dr. Perloff directs a variety of research projects analyzing population health models including beneficiary attribution, nurse practitioner/ACO staffing and low value care. She is a national expert in episode-based payment and led the design of analytic reports for health systems participating in CMMI’s bundled payment for care improvement (BPCI) model. Dr. Perloff helped lead the team that developed the Episode Grouper for Medicare (EGM), a comprehensive system with over 800 chronic, acute and treatment episodes. She has done extensive research on the cost and quality of nurse practitioner led primary care. Dr. Perloff currently sits on the National Quality Forum’s Scientific Methods Panel and the Heller School Information Security Committee.
Melanie Phelps, DrPH, JD, is an experienced leader in health policy and advocacy who is passionate about promoting health and wellbeing for all people through transforming the healthcare payment and delivery system and rethinking how we look at health. Ms. Phelps currently serves as senior advocacy advisor of health system transformation for the American Heart Association and is focusing her efforts on elevating the consumer/patient perspective in alternative care delivery and payment models.
Matthew Press, MD, MSC, is a nationally recognized physician and leader in primary care, population health and value-based payment. Dr. Press is an associate professor and lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania. For six years, he led Penn Medicine’s primary care network, driving unprecedented growth, integration and transformation. He served as interim chair of the department of family medicine and community health. He was awarded the Luigi Mastroianni, Jr. Clinical Innovator Award for his work in integrated mental health. Prior to his positions with Penn, Dr. Press was a member of the senior leadership team at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation at CMS, where he helped develop and implement several new payment and care delivery models including ACOs, bundled payments, integrated mental health and medical homes. His work has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, and Health Affairs and has been covered by The New York Times and the Associated Press. He received his MD from Brown University and completed his internal medicine residency and the RWJF clinical scholars program at the University of Pennsylvania.
Aisha Pittman, MHP, is the senior vice president of government affairs. In her role, Ms. Pittman leads NAACOS’ work to promote legislative and regulatory policies that will advance ACOs. She has 19 years of experience in healthcare payment, alternative payment models, healthcare quality measurement and health information technology. Ms. Pittman was previously vice president of policy with Premier, Inc., a group purchasing organization of more than 4,400 hospitals and 225,000 other provider organizations, since September 2019. During her eight years with Premier, she was responsible for working with policymakers, providers and other healthcare stakeholders to reduce costs and improve the quality of health care. Prior to Premier, Ms. Pittman held senior management roles with the National Quality Forum, the Maryland Health Care Commission and CenterLight Healthcare, in addition to experience at the National Committee for Quality Assurance. She holds a BS in biology, a BA in psychology, and a master’s in public health from The George Washington University. Ms. Pittman received GWU’s School of Public Health and Health Services Excellence in Health Policy Award.
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.
Margaret Senese oversees Medicare and Medicaid ACO strategy and operations and all-payer medical expense oversight at Atrius Health. Her public payer ACO portfolio currently includes MSSP, Primary Care First at 22 sites, and MassHealth ACO in partnership with Fallon Health. Prior to joining Atrius Health in 2018, she spent five years in public service at the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission managing programs investing in care delivery transformation at community hospitals. Ms. Senese holds an MS in health policy and management from the Harvard School of Public Health and a BS in mathematics from Tufts University.
Nate Sowa is a clinical assistant professor and associate vice chair within the UNC department of psychiatry. Dr. Sowa serves as a psychiatric consultant in several collaborative care partnerships with the departments of internal medicine and family medicine at UNC. He is also associate vice chair of virtual and integrated care within the department of psychiatry, coordinating the department’s virtual care strategy and integration into the healthcare system as a whole. His primary clinical interests are in the development and practice of collaborative care models, as well as the use of telepsychiatry to expand access to care.
Stephanie Turner, RN, MSN, is vice president of population management with UNC Health Alliance. Ms. Turner began her career as a family nurse practitioner for more than 16 years prior to transitioning into healthcare leadership. She has directed the transformation of UNC Health Alliances’ embedded and centralized care management teams that deliver care within ambulatory and independent practices. Ms. Turner’s team has exceeded targets for reducing patient utilization through a variety of interventions including complex case management of the highest risk patients in outpatient and post-acute settings, a robust transitional case management program, and care coordination services such as annual preventive visits, implementation of an integrated behavioral health model and nutrition therapy services in primary care practices. Her operational teams support those potentially lost to follow-up, gap closure and resource coordination through strategic scheduling, abstraction, go-live implementation and community services. Ms. Turner earned both a BN with honors and an MSN from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Brandon Webb serves as chief medical officer for OneHealth Nebraska ACO. In this role, Dr. Webb supports 23 independent member primary care clinics in the Lincoln area to achieve quality and cost metrics over multiple value-based contracts including MSSP, commercial ACO and MA plans. He also assists with policy and negotiations between OneHealth Nebraska and payers, health systems and other physician leaders. His background includes 25 years as a practicing family physician and owner of his multi-site independent practice, Primary Care Partners. Dr. Webb is the president and senior partner of Primary Care Partners and serves as their lead physician for value care. He is a fellow of the American Board of Family Medicine. He is a graduate of Baylor University in Waco, TX and McGovern Medical School in Houston, TX.
Debbie Welle-Powell is a health care thought leader, educator, national speaker, and content expert in delivery systems models of care, population health and digital care. As the former chief population health officer at Essentia Health. She designed, built, and operationalized Essentia’s $2.5 billion dollar transition from a primarily fee-for-service model of care to one that focused on value, the patient and risk-based contracting with payers. Her twenty-five years of exceptional and national executive healthcare experience and background in multi-state, large integrated delivery systems, coupled with industry involvement and insights into emerging opportunities, trends, and challenges have been valuable to health systems and purchasers seeking to grow, diversity and promote its expertise in the development and implementation of data-driven strategies and solutions in population health and value-based care. Ms. Welle-Powell currently serves on many national and local boards including the National Association of ACOs, National Committee on Quality Assurance, Summit Community Care Clinic in Frisco, Colorado, and she teaches at the University of Colorado’s Executive MBA program. Her work has earned her many honors including being recognized as one of 58 Top Leaders in Population Health by Becker’s in 2022, Colorado’s Most Powerful and Influential Women Award, Outstanding Businesswoman Award from the Denver community, the Frances Wisebart Jacobs Award for Philanthropy from Mile High United Way, and Health Care Champion award from Colorado Coalition for the Medically Underserved.
Phyllis Wojtusik
With over thirty-five years of health care experience, Phyllis draws on her experience as a Registered Nurse in acute care, ambulatory care, and post-acute care to bring vital input and client-side perspective into the development of Real Time’s Interventional Analytics solutions. A true expert in the field of long-term care, Phyllis is also an integral part of Real Time’s coordinated care effort, working to bring skilled nursing facilities and hospitals/health systems together for the benefit of the patient. Prior to joining Real Time Medical Systems, Phyllis 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. Phyllis speaks nationally and regionally on transitions of care, care coordination, and post-acute network development and management. Phyllis graduated from Lancaster General School of Nursing and Franklin and Marshal College with degrees in nursing and science.