Speakers
May 8, 2008 - Building Blocks for Universal Health Care in New York
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Mr. Karp is responsible for leading the programmatic and grantmaking activities of the Foundation's three priority areas: Innovations for the Underserved, Better Chronic Disease Care, and Market and Policy Monitor. Mr. Karp previously served as the Foundation's director of health information technology and as the chief information officer.
Prior to joining CHCF, Mr. Karp served as the founder and chief executive officer of HandsNet, Inc., a national nonprofit technology intermediary. He previously directed a large community health and nutrition organization in Santa Cruz, California, where he pioneered the development of integrated service delivery systems for low-income children, families, and the elderly. Mr. Karp has been active in a variety of nonprofit organizations as well as state and national campaigns and has consulted internationally.
Mr. Karp chairs the board of directors of the California Food Policy Advocates, is a board member of Grantmakers in Health, and is an advisory board member of the Center for Information Technology Leadership at Partners Healthcare System.
Mr. Karp received a bachelor's degree from Washington and Jefferson College. |
Ms. Bachrach is responsible for New York’s Medicaid, Family Health Plus, Child Health Plus and EPIC programs.
From 1992 until November 2006, Ms. Bachrach was a partner at the law Firm of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips where she served as Co-Chair of the Not-For-Profit Practice and Health Care Practice groups. At the Firm, Ms. Bachrach worked extensively with hospitals, community health centers and health plans whose patients depended on public health insurance programs, including Medicaid, Medicaid managed care and State Child Health Insurance Programs.
Ms. Bachrach has also served as Vice President, External Affairs at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center and before joining St. Luke’s-Roosevelt, she served as Chief Assistant Attorney General in the office of New York State Attorney General Robert Abrams.
Ms. Bachrach graduated with honors from the NYU School of Law and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. |
Mr. Bherwani’s career in technology spans over 20 years in the fields of public health, financial, housing, energy construction, and marketing. He has served as Chief Information Officer of multi-billion dollar enterprises, both in the public and private sectors, and as a member of the Board (CEO, Chairman and Vice-Chairman levels) of non-profit, technology, and investment organizations.
In December 2007, the City of New York published the “HHS-Connect Roadmap,” an ambitious strategic plan for integrated health and human services. In this roadmap, the HHS agencies have committed to the following unified vision: “To break information silos through the use of modernized technology and coordinated agency practices to more efficiently and effectively provide health and human services to New Yorkers.” In January 2008, Mr. Bherwani was selected to be Chief Information Officer for Health and Human Services and Executive Director of HHS-Connect for the City of New York due to his rich experience leading transformative projects which assist organizations in achieving their highest goals.
Under the guidance of an Executive Steering Committee comprised of the HHS Commissioners and the Deputy Mayor for HHS, Mr. Bherwani will oversee technology strategy and architecture within the HHS portfolio of agencies. Prior to joining the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services, Mr. Bherwani was the Chief Information Officer and Associate Commissioner for the NYC Department of Health & Mental Hygiene (NYC DOHMH). During his tenure as CIO for NYC DOHMH, Mr. Bherwani executed many successful IT strategies and initiatives that centralized IT infrastructure, introduced IT governance, significantly enhanced technology functionality agency-wide and improved the overall delivery of IT as a service.
Mr. Bherwani has a long history as an IT innovator, both by advancing business objectives with strategic information technology initiatives as a CIO of three New York City agencies and making investments in and managing a portfolio of technology companies. |
Michael Birnbaum is director of policy for the Medicaid Institute at United Hospital Fund. He plays a lead role in developing and producing the analytic work of the Institute, which aims to be a force for positive change leading to the redesign, restructuring, and rebuilding of New York State's Medicaid program. He has authored publications on patterns and trends in Medicaid spending, service use, and enrollment; the impact of federal and state policies; and the major challenges facing New York’s program.
Prior to joining the Fund, Mr. Birnbaum served as an analyst in the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), where his unit forecast baseline Medicare and Medicaid spending and estimated the fiscal impact of federal health legislation. He authored and co-authored CBO cost estimates on Medicare reform proposals in the Balanced Budget Refinement Act of 1999 and in the President’s budget proposals of 1999 and 2000, and he contributed to the construction of original CBO estimation models.
As an associate at AcademyHealth, Mr. Birnbaum focused on state expansions of public and private health insurance. His publications addressed the significance of the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) for state regulation of private insurance markets, and innovative approaches for states to expand Medicaid and SCHIP programs.
Mr. Birnbaum is adjunct assistant professor of health policy and management at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, and adjunct associate professor of public administration at New York University’s Wagner School of Public Service.
Mr. Birnbaum holds an MPhil in Economics from Cambridge University and an MSc, with Distinction, in Public Administration and Public Policy from the London School of Economics. He is a graduate of Wesleyan University. |
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Patricia Boozang is a health care policy consultant, with particular interest and expertise in improving insurance coverage and health care access for low-income people. Ms. Boozang previously worked for Manatt Health Solutions, a health care policy and advocacy group based in New York. At Manatt, Ms. Boozang provided government relations, policy and regulatory advice to a wide range of non-profit healthcare and social services organizations.
Ms. Boozang has authored numerous reports on public policy issues related to healthcare and publicly funded healthcare insurance programs, including studies that have received foundation support from the Commonwealth Fund, the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, the New York Community Trust and the United Hospital Fund.
She received her Masters Degree in Public Health from Columbia University and her Bachelor degree from Boston College. |
In addition to working on the development and implementation of Healthy San Francisco, in the area of health care coverage expansion Ms. Brigham worked on the development of the San Francisco Health Care Accountability Ordinance and implementation of Medi-Cal managed care in San Francisco. She also worked on the initial planning for San Francisco’s Healthy Kids Program and the Los Angeles County Children’s Health Initiative. Ms. Brigham has authored several reports on health care coverage expansion and universal health care, including “Achieving Health Insurance for San Francisco’s Uninsured” and “San Francisco Health Access Program: Serving Uninsured Adults.”
Ms. Brigham has held several leadership positions in the non-profit and public sectors, having previously served as Community Health Program Officer for The San Francisco Foundation, Chief of Staff for L.A. Care Health Plan, Director of the Corporation for Supportive Housing’s California program and Director of Policy and Planning for the San Francisco Department of Public Health.
She is a member of the Nicholas C. Petris Center on the Health Care Markets and Consumer Welfare Advisory Committee and sits on the non-profit boards of First Place for Youth and Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation.
She received her Master of Public Policy degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1990 and her Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1984 |
Since Georganne Chapin assumed her post as President and Chief Executive Officer in 1989, Hudson Health Plan has become the premier provider of state-sponsored managed health care services delivering comprehensive coverage to more than 75,000 low-income people in New York's Hudson Valley region.
Ms. Chapin earned her B.A. in Anthropology from Barnard College, and her M.A. and M.Phil. degrees in Sociomedical Sciences from Columbia University. In 2003, she received a J.D., cum laude, with certificates in Health Law and International Law from Pace University School of Law. Ms. Chapin also has taught at Pace as an adjunct professor of law; her courses include Health Care for the Disabled and Disadvantaged, and Bioethics and Medical Malpractice.
In 2004, under Ms. Chapin's leadership, the Hudson Center for Health Equity and Quality (Hcheq) was formed. Hcheq's role is to act as a regional voice on issues of health policy and the use of health information technology to streamline eligibility for state-sponsored insurance and to improve the services delivered under these programs. Ms Chapin was featured on the cover of Managed Healthcare Executive in August, 2006. |
Anne Marie Costello, Division of Coverage and Enrollment, Office of Health Insurance Programs, NYS
Ms. Costello is the Director of the New York City Bureau of Compliance and Customer Service, Division of Coverage and Enrollment in the Office of Health Insurance Programs. In addition to her Medicaid efforts in New York City, Ms. Costello is also responsible for developing and implementing initiatives statewide to enroll all children and eligible adults in New York’s public health insurance programs.
Before joining the New York State Department of Health, Ms. Costello was the Director of Programs at the Children’s Defense Fund-New York, one of the nation’s foremost children’s advocacy organizations. She joined the Children’s Defense Fund in 1999, where she led CDF’s statewide program and community organizing efforts related to public benefits including Medicaid, Child Health Plus, food stamps, tax credits, child nutrition programs and other strategies to help lift children and families out of poverty. Between 2004 and 2007, she also directed the organization’s health policy and research initiatives.
Prior to her work at CDF-NY, Ms. Costello served as the Project Director of the New York City Immunization Action Plan at the New York City Department of Health. She was with the Department of Health for 13 years. |
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Andrea Dodge is currently the Chief Administrative Officer for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EOHHS). In this capacity she has policy and oversight responsibility for a number of cross-agency purchasing, information technology, and administrative initiatives. This includes policy responsibility for $2.1B in annual human service purchasing and contract management, including pricing policy and internal controls. She also is responsible for business and policy operations of the Virtual Gateway, which is an in constituent-facing Internet portal that provides online access to a variety of human service benefit programs. Ms. Dodge also oversees operations for an integrated human service transportation partnership with the Commonwealth’s Regional Transit Authorities.
Prior to joining EOHHS Ms. Dodge spent 5 years with Accenture, LLP in their Government Strategy Practice, where her work focused on human service administrative strategy and technology planning. Ms. Dodge’s earlier career experience includes time as founder and executive director of the Consortium for Women and Children in New Haven, Connecticut. The Consortium is statewide technical assistance and advocacy organization for community organizations serving families affected by substance abuse. She has a Bachelors degree in Anthropology from Yale University and a Masters degree in Public Policy from the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government. |
Linda Hacker is Assistant Deputy Commissioner of Medicaid Program Strategy, Support and Analysis for the Medical Insurance Community Services Administration within the Human Resources Administration (HRA). In that capacity she is responsible for Medicaid program planning, policy development and implementation. Prior to joining HRA, Ms. Hacker served as Deputy Director of the Mayor’s Office of Health Insurance Access for New York City responsible for managing City agency enrollment strategies, marketing/advertising, data management and analysis & development of public policy positions for HealthStat, a citywide initiative involving 20 City agencies and partnerships with private organizations to enroll eligible individuals into public health insurance. Her earlier experience includes a number of positions with private insurers including the Vice President Network Strategy and Development for Aetna US HealthCare/NYLCare and Vice President/Executive Director of CIGNA’s Mid-Atlantic health plan. Ms. Hacker is experienced in public policy, strategic planning, financial management, health plan management, and health care delivery strategies.
Ms. Hacker holds a Master’s of Health Services Administration and a Master’s of Applied Economics from the University of Michigan. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Pomona College. |
David Hansell is the Commissioner of the New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance (OTDA), the state agency charged with oversight of support programs and economic assistance for low-income New Yorkers.
Mr. Hansell brings to OTDA a breadth of experience in the development and delivery of social service policy and programs, having most recently served as Chief of Staff of the New York City Human Resources Administration (HRA). In that position, Mr. Hansell assisted in the management of all of the city’s Public Assistance programs as well as programs for victims of domestic violence, persons with HIV/AIDS, home care clients and adults in need of protection.
Prior to joining HRA, Mr. Hansell served in a range of positions at Gay Men’s Health Crisis, including Director of Legal Services and Deputy Director for Government and Public Affairs. From 1997-2001, he was the Associate Commissioner for HIV Services at the New York City Department of Health, and subsequently served as Associate Commissioner for Planning and Program Implementation. From 2000-2006, he was an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the New York University Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. He has also been a consultant on health policy and social services issues to a wide range of governmental and non-profit organizations.
Mr. Hansell is a graduate of Haverford College and Yale Law School. He is a recipient of an Outstanding Public Service Award from the New York County Lawyers’ Association. |
Mary Harper has served in her current position as the Executive Deputy Commissioner of HRA’s Medical Insurance & Community Services Administration for two years. She is responsible for the city’s Medical Assistance Program, Home Care Services Program, Adult Protective Services Program and HIV/AIDS Services Administration. Together, these programs serve over 1.5 million New Yorkers.
Prior to this appointment, Ms. Harper led the Medical Assistance Program throughout the transformative period in which Medicaid changed from a welfare based fee for service program to a stand-alone product delivered through managed care. During her tenure, New Yorkers’ enrollment in public health insurance tripled through eligibility expansions, simplification in application and renewal requirements as well as through the introduction and establishment of facilitated enrollment. Among the technology initiatives implemented during her tenure were demonstration projects of electronic application processing in the Prenatal Care Assistance Program (PCAP) and the Nursing Home Eligibility Division. These demonstrations are the precursors to the Eligibility Data and Image Transfer System (EDITS) project currently under implementation.
Ms. Harper is a graduate of Fordham University and earned her masters at Northwestern. |
As Deputy Insurance Commissioner of Pennsylvania’s Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and the adultBasic Program in the Pennsylvania Insurance Department. Mr. Hoover was key to the 2007 expansion of Pennsylvania’s CHIP through the Cover All Kids initiative, allowing uninsured children of any income to access CHIP coverage.
Mr. Hoover has been essential in the development of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s Access to Social Service (COMPASS) web-based application, allowing citizens to apply for a variety of human services programs across multiple agencies.
For over 35 years, Mr. Hoover has strived to improve access to programs for low and limited-income individuals and families, and to reduce barriers to services by streamlining enrollment policies and procedures.
Prior to joining the Insurance Department, Mr. Hoover worked in the Department of Public Welfare, where he served as the Executive Director of a local welfare office from 1981 to 1987, was Director of eligibility policy for the Food Stamp Program for the Commonwealth from 1987 to 1993, and directed Medicaid eligibility policy from 1993 to 2005. During that time, he focused efforts to improve access to means-tested programs for low- and limited-income individuals and families, and worked to reduce barriers to services and streamline enrollment policies and procedures. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree from Pennsylvania State University. |
Dr. Lipsman was appointed by County Executive Andy Spano as Commissioner of Health for Westchester County in May 2000. Prior to that, Dr. Lipsman was Executive Director of Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC) in Manhattan in 1999, and prior to that, for seven and a half years he led the Alexandria, Virginia department of health. He previously was the medical director and administrator of the city’s system of public health clinics in Houston, Texas, and a staff physician and community health director on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation in South Dakota.
Dr. Lipsman is a practicing physician who received his M.D. degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, and completed a family medicine residency at the St. Paul-Ramsey Medical Center in Minnesota. He holds an M.P.H. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Public Health and the J.D. from Pace Law School in White Plains, NY. Dr. Lipsman is board certified in public health and general preventive medicine and is an attorney admitted to the New York State Bar. |
Mr. Ottomanelli has over 12 years of experience in health care and 20 years of experience in information technology. Mr. Ottomanelli has held the positions of Operations Manager, Senior Programmer/Analyst, Team Leader, Project Manager, Director and Vice President within the Retail, Manufacturing, Banking and Managed Care industries.
Mr. Ottomanelli received his Bachelor of Science from Manhattan College in 1988, majoring in Computer Information Systems. He then went on to receive his MBA from St. John’s University in 1995. |
Mr. Santiago has played an instrumental role in Hudson Health Plan's growth since joining the company as a marketing representative in 1991.
Now, as Senior VP for Marketing and Communications, he directs the not-for-profit organization's advertising, public relations, community relations, and special events programs, and leads a multilingual and multicultural field staff of 80 marketing representatives, who work out of five satellite offices.
Mr. Santiago is a board member of the Westchester Hispanic Coalition and a member of the Westchester Children's Association's Child Health Task Force. In 2005, Mr. Santiago was named a Westchester County Rising Star by the Business Council of Westchester and in 2006 was named a "Rising Star" by the Orange County Chamber of Commerce, Leadership Orange, and the Junior League of Orange County. |
Sam Karp, Vice President of Programs, California HealthCare Foundation
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Deborah Bachrach, Deputy Commissioner, Office of Health Insurance Programs and Medicaid Director, NYS Department of Health
Kamal Bherwani, Chief Information Officer for Health and Human Services and Executive Director of HHS Connect, Office of Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services 
Michael Birnbaum, Director of Policy, Medicaid Institute, United Hospital Fund 
Patricia Boozang 
Tangerine M. Brigham, Deputy Director of Health, Director of Healthy San Francisco, San Francisco Department of Public Health, CA 
Georganne Chapin, President & CEO , Hudson Health Plan and Hudson Center for Health Equity & Quality 
Andrea L. Dodge, Chief Administrative Officer, Executive Office of Health and Human Services, Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
Linda Hacker, Assistant Deputy Commissioner, Managed Care and Family Health Plus, New York City Human Resources Administration Resources Administration
David Hansell, Commissioner, NYS Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance (OTDA) 
Mary M. Harper, Executive Deputy Commissioner, Medical Insurance and Community Service Administration , New York City Human Resources Administration 
Charles Ottamenelli, Chief Information Officer, Health Plus 
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