NAACOS Announces 2024
Board of Directors and Committee Members

WASHINGTON –The National Association of ACOs (NAACOS) announces its 2024 Board of Directors as the organization continues to champion accountable care which allows providers to innovate care while improving quality and lowering costs. The Board of Directors helps set NAACOS’ advocacy agenda and member services for its members and its work to proliferate value-based care in traditional Medicare and with other payers. The 2024 Board consists of ten seats for single ACOs, six seats for organizations with multiple ACOs, one private payer ACO seat, and the CEO, Clif Gaus. 

Newly elected board members are:

  • Jenny Reed, Baylor Scott & White (single ACO)
  • Nina Taggart, Lehigh Valley Health Network (reelected, single ACO)
  • Tim Gronniger, Signify (reelected, multi ACO) 

The 2024 Board Executive Committee members are:

  • Chair: Emily Brower, Trinity Health
  • Chair-Elect: Melanie Matthews, MultiCare Connected Care and PSW
  • Treasurer: Travis Broome, Aledade
  • Secretary:  Stephen Nuckolls, Coastal Carolina Quality Care
  • Member-at-Large: Jennifer Moore, MaineHealth ACO 

Continuing board members not listed above include Rebecca Adkins, Jefferson Health; Geoffery Nicholson Jr, WellSpan Health; Margarita Ollet, Health Choice Care; Arshad Rahim, Mount Sinai Health System; Bob Rauner, OneHealth Nebraska; Rebecca Rohrbach, NOMS Healthcare; Anthony Valdes, Collaborative Health System; and Clif Gaus, NAACOS President and CEO. 

Get more information and bios for the 2024 NAACOS Board of Directors. 

NAACOS is also pleased to announce new members of its 2024 Policy, Quality, and Education Committees. 

The NAACOS Policy Committee helps guide the NAACOS advocacy agenda to improve the long-term stability and success of accountable care. Policy Committee members provide vital feedback to NAACOS on a variety of issues, including improving public understanding of value-based care, interpreting and improving regulations by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and legislation under consideration in Congress. 

Stephen Nuckolls, Coastal Carolina Quality Care is the new chair and the new members of the committee are:

  • Katie Boyer, Agilon Health
  • Tori Bratcher, Trinity Health
  • Joyce Colton, Ascension
  • Steven Greenspan, Vytalize Health
  • Harry Reese, Ochsner Accountable Care Network
  • Megan Reyna, Advocate Health
  • Margaret Senese, Atrius Health
  • Aaron Sohaski, Mosaic Accountable Care Organization
  • Mary D. Strasser, Essentia Health
  • Dana Strauss, Signify Health
  • David Walker, Beaumont ACO
  • Hannah Wieshalla, CentraCare Health
  • Stephen Wolery, Lumeris
  • Jacob Woods, PSW and MultiCare Connected Care 

The NAACOS Quality Committee evaluates quality initiatives and requirements that relate to ACOs and focuses on the role of quality in population-based payment models. Committee members help develop and inform approaches assessing providers in accountable arrangements and the data and infrastructure needed in population health. 

The continued chair of the committee is Ashish Parikh, Summit Health-NJ, and new members of the committee are:

  • Brandi Apodaca, Community Health Provider Alliance
  • Wilson Gabbard, Advocate Health
  • Megan Guinn, BJC Healthcare
  • Anna Taylor, MultiCare Connected Care
  • Pranali Trivedi, Ascension 

In 2022, NAACOS established an Education Committee to advise the board on long- and short-term planning of educational activities that address the needs of members. 

Jennifer Moore, MaineHealth ACO, continues to chair this committee.  The newly appointed members for 2024 are:

  • Renee Barlev, Vytalize Health
  • Rick Goddard, Lumeris
  • Shelby Harbison, MultiCare Connected Care
  • Chante Moy, Baptist Health UAMS Accountable Care Alliance
  • Melissa Pollock, CHESS
  • Adam Sumrall, Privia Quality Network
  • Ahjay Stivland, Bluestone ACO 

ACOs are a market-based solution to help lower the cost of health care spending and improve patient outcomes, where groups of doctors, hospitals and other providers take responsibility for the total cost and quality of care for their patients. 

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Contact:
David Pittman
Director, Communications and Regulatory Affairs
202-640-2689 or [email protected]