Vice President And Senior Vice President
Towson Maryland And Owings Mills Maryland
Managed utilization management, quality improvement, hospital contracting, network contracting, regulatory affairs, provider services, pharmacy, and dental for the insurer's million plus 'indemnity' and 'self-insured' members.In 1990 created an "Exclusive Provider Organization" using Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission Data to identify a less costly subset of the larger PPO Network. That Network is still being sold (2018) and is one of several innovative products developed at BCBSM during my tenure there including Greenspring Mental Health Services and Paradigm Pharmacy Management Services.Rewrote the entire BCBSM medical policy set and created uniform medical policy for the base business and the Company's four HMO's (FreeState, Carefirst, Delmarva Health, and the Columbia Medical Plan).