Webinar: Future Care Web Summit 2021

Crystal Yednak
Senior Manager
PwC Health Research Institute

Crystal Yednak is a senior manager with PwC’s Health Research Institute and leads HRI’s analysis of regulatory and legislative affairs impacting providers and payers.

In 15 years as a journalist whose work has appeared in major publications such as the The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune and Crain’s Chicago Business, Yednak reported on health policy and its impact from a variety of perspectives. She followed state government efforts to expand Medicaid, profiled the winners and losers in a shifting provider landscape and chronicled patient experiences in the healthcare system. At the Tribune, Yednak uncovered corruption involving the state’s healthcare facilities planning board and the governor’s office.

Prior to joining PwC, Yednak conducted research and wrote thought leadership pieces for a number of companies and nonprofit organizations. Yednak is a graduate of Northwestern University.

Ingrid Stiver
Senior Manager
PwC Health Research Institute

Ingrid Stiver is a senior manager at PwC's Health Research Institute. HRI is a dedicated research group that provides new intelligence and perspective on major health-related business issues. Ingrid leads HRI's analysis of major trends impacting health insurers, employers and providers.

A former consultant in PwC's assurance practice, Ingrid has returned to PwC after a five-year hiatus in which she held positions at Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) and the Denver Health Medical Plan. At CHI Ingrid worked in the Institute for Research & Innovation where she focused on streamlining the administrative aspects of clinical trial start up and ongoing trial management for CHI's hospitals and provider practices. Most recently Ingrid worked for the Denver Health Medical Plan overseeing large group employer and individual products.

Ingrid earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees in accounting from the University of Denver and holds an active CPA license in the state of Colorado.

Natalie Trebes
Director
Health Plan Research
Advisory Board

Natalie Trebes is a director for the Health Plan Advisory Council within the Advisory Board's Research division. In her work with health plans, she has led research on value-based contracting, member experience, risk adjustment, and Medicaid managed care.

She previously served with the Advisory Board’s Oncology Roundtable research program, conducting research on cancer patient experiences and preferences as well as lung and prostate cancer centers of excellence.

Prior to joining the Advisory Board, Natalie worked as a national security network analyst at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and later worked with the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement initiative at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. Natalie graduated from the University of Southern California with bachelor’s degrees in biological sciences and international relations. She also holds a master of public policy from Duke University.

Natalie's areas of expertise include Medicaid managed care, risk adjustment, value-based contracting, member experience, utilization behavior, network management, provider partnerships, dual-eligible beneficiaries, and community partnerships.

Chris Sukenik
Principal
BDC Advisors

Chris Sukenik is a Principal with BDC Advisors. He is a proven consulting leader and trusted advisor to senior healthcare executives with a focus on provider and payer healthcare markets.  Chris has extensive experience in enterprise strategy, payer contracting strategy and value-based contracting initiatives.  His areas of focus include:

• Enterprise Strategy
• Payer Contracting Strategy
• Value-Based Contracting Initiatives
• Managed Care Pricing Strategy
• Managed Care Organization Design
• Accountable Care Organization and Design
• Strategic Affiliations

His recent experience includes serving as an advisor to academic medical centers including Mass General Brigham, Mount Sinai Health System, University of Chicago, University of Miami, and Weill Cornell Medicine.  He has also worked with community health systems including Providence Health System, BayCare Health System, Trinity Health and Baptist Health South Florida.

Prior to BDC Advisors, Chris was a consultant with Navigant focused on driving operational improvements for health systems and physician groups.

Chris received a Master of Business Administration at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, where he was named an Edward Tuck Scholar with Distinction.  He graduated summa cum laude from Wake Forest University with Bachelor degrees in Finance and French.

John Gorman
Founder and Chairman
Nightingale Partners

John Gorman is Founder and Chairman of Nightingale Partners, and is the Founder and former Executive Chairman of Gorman Health Group, at the time the industry’s leading consulting practice which spawned almost a dozen entrepreneurial ventures in government health programs.

John’s work focuses on Medicare, Medicaid, and Affordable Care Act strategy, governance, and turnaround of distressed health plans. Prior to founding the firm, John served as Assistant to the Director of Health Care Financing Administration’s (HCFA, now CMS) Office of Managed Care, where he provided day-to-day management and served as the external liaison for the Medicare and Medicaid managed care programs.

During the 1993 debate on national health care reform, John was chief lobbyist on health care financing issues for the National Association of Community Health Centers, an organization of federally-funded primary care clinics for the medically underserved. John’s career in Washington began as Press Secretary and Staff Director for U.S. Representative John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), then Chairman of the Government Operations Committee.

John serves on the Board of Directors of Henry Ford Health System’s Health Alliance Plan in his birthplace of Detroit, MI, and serves as a Senior Advisor to Premier, Inc., the hospital purchasing cooperative, on Medicare Advantage and Medicaid matters.

Alaap B. Shah
Member of the Firm
Epstein Becker Green

Alaap B. Shah is a Member of the Firm in the Health Care and Life Sciences practice, in the firm's Washington, DC, office. Mr. Shah advises clients on privacy, cybersecurity, and data protection laws and regulations; Advises on cybersecurity and data breach matters; Advises clients on health care fraud and abuse matters and government investigations relating to health information technology; and Counsels clients on digital health and data asset management strategies and related compliance issues.

His work focuses on defense and counseling of health care entities on legal and regulatory compliance issues around privacy, cybersecurity, and data asset management. He has extensive experience with legal issues related to health information technology, big data analytics, and digital health strategies. He provides compliance counseling, establishes and evaluates compliance programs, conducts privacy and security risk assessments, establishes compliant contracting strategies to build trust networks, and responds to data breaches.

 Mr. Shah is a Certified CSF Practitioner, a designation given by the Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST), an organization that provides training to develop and maintain effective security programs for health care and life sciences companies that comply with security laws, regulations, and standards, including HITECH, HIPAA, PCI, JCAHO, CMS, ISO, NIST, and various other federal, state, and business requirements. He is also recognized by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) as a Certified Professional in Healthcare Information and Management Systems (CPHIMS).  Mr. Shah is also recognized by the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) as a Certified Information Privacy Professional in the United States.

 Mr. Shah began his legal career at Epstein Becker Green. Before rejoining the firm in October 2017, he served as Senior Counsel and Chief Privacy and Security Officer at an oncology membership society where he strengthened enterprise-wide privacy and security, helped establish a big data initiative focused on improving quality of care by harnessing cancer patient medical information, and built data sharing trust networks among the oncology community.

During law school, Mr. Shah worked with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Office of General Counsel, where he provided legal counsel and support to all agencies and programs under the Public Health Division of DHHS.