Leading Experts in Managed Care Experts

Jan Hacker is the Managing Partner and Co-founder of Oberender & Partner, a leading Healthcare Consulting Company in Germany. Mr. Hacker has expertise in strategic hospital management and the development of market entry strategies for foreign companies. He is also a member of the board of EconoMedic...

Carrie Harris-Muller is the Chief Operating Officer with Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and Health Plan in the Mid-Atlantic States. She formerly served as Regional Vice President for HealthPlan Administration and Contracting. Ms. Harris-Muller has held several executive leadership positions in healthcare,...

Robert Hoover, Jr., MD, MPH, is Jurisdiction C Durable Medical Equipment Medical Director at CIGNA Government Services. In his role at CIGNA Government Services, he is responsible for coverage, coding, and documentation for durable medical equipment, orthotics and prosthetics in fee-for-service Medicare....

Ronald A. Kiima is a former SEC Assistant Chief Accountant. Mr. Kiima is currently the President of Kiima Incorporated, a private consulting firm specializing in SEC accounting and disclosure issues, SEC registration statements and periodic reports, SEC investigations and enforcement proceedings, corporate...

Edward Littman, MD, is the Medical Director of the Davita Dialysis Clinics in Norwalk, Connecticut. He also serves as a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Littman’s major area of expertise is in dialysis treatment of chronic kidney disease. He was...

Adam Lowey is the Owner of Express Health Insurance Services, since 2001, an independent insurance agency specializing in health insurance for people on Medicare, individuals/families, and small businesses. They have bi-lingual services with representatives to assist the Spanish speaking community....

Kenneth Morris is a Senior Vice President, CFO and Treasurer at Duke University Health System. Reporting to the President and CEO of the System, Mr. Morris provides top-level management and oversight of all financial operations including Accounting, Financial Reporting, Budgeting, Financial Analysis,...

Jeffrey Perlmutter, MD, is a Nephrologist in private practice in Maryland. He has experience in the treatment of all forms of acute and chronic kidney disease including the care of patients with end stage renal disease requiring dialysis or transplantation. He is the Medical Director of a hospital-based...

Rochelle Pleskow, MS, HSA, brings 20 years of healthcare industry experience encompassing the clinical and business perspectives of medicine, focusing on technology, medical real estate, payer relations, physician practice management, hospital systems, ambulatory care, and supply chain logistics. Her...

Jeanette Plowman is currently an independent consultant specializing in HRO BPO outsourcing and Employee Benefits Administration outsourcing. She provides consulting services on competitive positioning in the outsourcing industry, outsourcing strategies, options assessment, and solution development...

Bilyana Savic is the President of Insurance Insights. She is a consultant to insurance companies and insurance brokerage firms, specializing in the health insurance product categories of major medical, life, long term care, Medicare supplement, disability, accident and specified disease, but also with...

Beverly Sepulveda is the President and Principal Consultant for SynerImages, a national managed healthcare and information systems consulting company in Spring, Texas. She has over 21 years of experience in healthcare, particularly the HMO/PPO and IPA industries. Ms. Sepulveda’s experience ranges from...

Vikram Singh, MBA, is a Director in the Health and Productivity Practice at Buck Consultants. His expertise is in the financial and business aspects of pharmacy benefit management. Mr. Singh provides strategic advice in the areas of pharmacy benefit and health care finance, and on mergers and acquisitions...

Tracy Spicer is a Partner at Avenue Solutions, a Washington, DC based government relations firm which provides strategic legislative, policy and political expertise. She focuses on the healthcare arena and has played an integral role in some of the most prominent healthcare policy debates on Capitol...

Richard Tarplin is the founder of Tarplin Strategies in Washington, DC, where he provides strategic advice and lobbying services to clients in the financial services and health care sectors. He served for almost 20 years in the US House of Representatives and US Senate and as a senior Presidential Executive...

Josh Valdez, DBA, is Owner of The Right Way, a full service healthcare consulting organization. For the previous four years, Dr. Valdez served as the Senior Vice President of Health Care Management for WellPoint Pacific Zone, one of three Regions comprising WellPoint, Inc, the leading health plan in...

James Ward is the President & Chief Executive Officer of Ingenuity Group, an independent insurance Agency & Employee Benefits firm serving corporations, institutions, non-profit, and individuals providing solutions for Property, Casualty, Health, and Life. In addition, Mr. Ward serves as President...

David Zimmerman, PharmD, FASCP, is the President and an Independent Consultant of Doctors of Pharmacy, Inc. Dr. Zimmerman formerly served as the Director of Clinical Affairs at Employee Health Insurance Management, a pharmacy benefit manager. He has over 30 years of experience, specializing in pharmacy...