John Volpe is an experienced senior health official with a demonstrated record of success at the intersection of health, social service, public safety and the criminal justice system. Prior to joining HMA, John served as special advisor on criminal justice for the New York City (NYC) Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, founding the Office … Read More
Randall Washington is a process-driven project management professional with a strong public health research background and over 10 years of experience managing multi-million dollar research projects in the federal government, nonprofit and consulting arenas. Randall is skilled in project planning documentation and implementation, including success metrics, stakeholder designation, scope, budget, milestones, deliverables, project dependencies, timeline … Read More
Sheila Wilson is a registered nurse with over 35 years of experience in both the clinical and managed care environments. For more than two decades she has excelled at leading care management teams crossing multiple lines of business, including small and large group commercial, the individual product, Medicare Advantage, and D-SNP with a primary focus … Read More
Health Management Associates (HMA) is utilizing Virtual Research Data Center (VRDC) data to do what HMA does best: solve publicly funded healthcare’s most challenging problems. The combination of our deep analytics expertise and our nationally renowned subject matter experts can help you solve your toughest challenges. Market Analysis Want to know how many psychologists are … Read More
As we look back at our 2023 Fall Conference on publicly sponsored healthcare held in October, we wanted to highlight a few key takeaways from the event: The discourse highlighted pervasive issues such as silos that contribute to a lack of accountability within the system. There was a unanimous recognition of the imperative to eliminate … Read More
One of the most important challenges for a health data organization is ensuring that its policies and procedures remain compliant with the dynamic landscape of federal and state privacy and security statutes, regulations, and industry standards. HMA brings applicable experience and expertise to assist state agencies, non-profit organizations, and other entities that are responsible for … Read More
Christine VanDonge provides strong behavioral health expertise, leveraging her 10 years of research and evaluation experience as well as her degrees in Marriage and Family Therapy. Christine is skilled in strategic planning, incorporating stakeholder and community perspectives, and data-to-action frameworks to inform strategic actions. In addition to her early-career clinical experience, she has worked with … Read More
Art Jones, MD, has 27 years of experience as a primary care physician and chief executive officer (CEO) at a Chicago area community health center. The health center has taken a population health approach from its beginning, addressing the social drivers of health, as well as the medical needs of the community it serves. Dr. … Read More
Liddy Garcia-Buñuel has the vision, passion and expertise to effect organizational and systematic change. She takes a collaborative approach. She unites health systems, hospitals, providers, government and social service agencies around common goals and innovative programs to elevate whole community health and quality of life. She delivers evidence-based solutions that breakdown barriers, mitigate disparities and … Read More
This week, our In Focus section reviews the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Interoperability and Prior Authorization Final Rule, published on January 17, 2024. This is CMS’s latest effort to flesh out regulations mandating payer interoperability and fully electronic prior authorization (PA) policies. The 2024 final rule also represents a new phase in the agency’s work … Read More