Navigant Strengthens Healthcare Payment Transformation, Medicare Advantage, and State Government Solutions
February 13 2019 - 7:30AM
Business Wire
Total of six new hires deepen capabilities in rate setting,
actuarial services, managed care, population health, and long-range
financial planning
Navigant (NYSE: NCI) today announced a series of new hires to
enhance its investments in its payment transformation, payer, and
government healthcare solutions.
“The continued growth in Medicare Advantage, managed Medicaid,
and alternative payment models requires a combination of clinical,
operational, financial, actuarial, and public health expertise,”
said Rich Bajner, managing director and leader of Navigant’s
healthcare value transformation practice. “These additions
strengthen Navigant’s ability to offer integrated solutions to
payers, providers, and government agencies to help them better
manage new payment models and improve the health of the communities
they serve.”
Russell Ackerman has joined Navigant as a managing director,
where he will oversee the healthcare actuarial consulting service
line. Ackerman brings more than 25 years of consulting and health
plan experience across the public and private sectors. He
previously served as national practice leader at Aon, where he led
Medicaid actuarial service offerings including assisting states
with program development, rate setting, public exchange, and
accountable care organization (ACO) strategies. Ackerman also was a
principal in Mercer’s Government Human Services consulting practice
and a chief actuary in a large Midwestern health plan.
Colby Schaeffer has joined Navigant as a director. He is a
credentialed actuary who recently served as a vice president at
Aon, where his responsibilities included Medicaid capitation rate
development, reserve analysis, and health reform modeling for state
agencies. Schaeffer has additional actuarial consulting experience
with such value-based purchasing arrangements as ACOs and
patient-centered medical homes. He also held actuarial-related
positions working with several different state programs and the
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services at both The Lewin
Group and Coventry Health Care, an Aetna Company.
Bill Van Antwerp has joined Navigant as a managing director. Van
Antwerp is an accomplished senior executive with significant
experience advising health plans and provider networks on digital,
operational, and transformational initiatives. Most recently he
worked at Accenture where he managed and led the growth and
development of its go-to-market strategy for health plans, with
specific focus on consumerism, member engagement, operations,
technology, and digital health. Prior to that, he served in
leadership positions at HP Enterprise Services and American
Express.
Eric Cahow has joined Navigant as a director, where he leads
risk adjustment, quality improvement, and revenue optimization
solutions for health plans, including provider-sponsored plans.
Cahow supports clients through development and implementation of
population health management programs aimed at improving revenues
for Medicare Advantage and Medicaid managed care organizations
through risk adjustment programs, Healthcare Effectiveness Data and
Information Sets (HEDIS), Medicare Consumer Assessment of
Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS), and Pharmacy Quality
Alliance measures. Cahow has more than 25 years of experience, most
recently serving as the national leader of Medicare revenue at
Anthem and previously leading Aetna’s Medicare Stars efforts. He
also worked at WellCare as vice president of product
management.
J.T. Lane has joined Navigant as a director, bringing extensive
experience in health policy innovation and implementation. He
previously served as the chief state public health official for
Louisiana, where he led state public health and Medicaid program
collaboration to create quality improvement and payment reform
projects for Medicaid managed care. He also launched the Center for
Population Health Informatics and a statewide program aimed at
improving the health of Louisiana residents. In addition, Lane held
various roles at Alvarez & Marsal and Health Management
Associates advising local, state, national, and global government
and private sector health organizations.
Scott Simerly, PhD, has joined Navigant as a director. He spent
more than two decades with Myers and Stauffer, where he led
hospital and physician reimbursement system design, development,
and implementation. His depth of expertise includes the development
of hospital rates and other system parameters to manage payment
model outcomes, Medicaid supplemental finance strategies and
determinations, and the construction of physician fee schedules and
various fiscal impact models.
Navigant’s Healthcare segment is comprised of consultants,
former provider administrators, clinicians, and other experts with
decades of strategy, operational/clinical consulting, managed
services, revenue cycle management, and outsourcing experience.
Professionals collaborate with hospitals and health systems,
physician enterprises, payers, government, and life sciences
entities, providing performance improvement and business process
management solutions that help them meet quality and financial
goals.
About Navigant
Navigant Consulting, Inc. (NYSE: NCI) is a specialized, global
professional services firm that helps clients take control of their
future. Navigant’s professionals apply deep industry knowledge,
substantive technical expertise, and an enterprising approach to
help clients build, manage, and/or protect their business
interests. With a focus on markets and clients facing
transformational change and significant regulatory or legal
pressures, the firm primarily serves clients in the healthcare,
energy, and financial services industries. Across a range of
advisory, consulting, outsourcing, and technology/analytics
services, Navigant’s practitioners bring sharp insight that
pinpoints opportunities and delivers powerful results. More
information about Navigant can be found at navigant.com.
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