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Today, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar
announced that James Parker will serve as Senior Advisor to the
Secretary for Health Reform and Director of the Office of Health
Reform at HHS. Mr. Parker will lead the initiative to address the
cost and availability of health insurance.
Upon this announcement, Secretary Azar said: “Jim
Parker has spent his life working in the private sector to provide
Americans access to quality, affordable health insurance. His
knowledge and expertise will be vital to our work at HHS to ensure
that Americans have access to insurance that meets their needs.”
This follows the recent announcement of Daniel M. Best
to serve as Senior Advisor to the Secretary for Drug Pricing Reform
and Brett Giroir, M.D., to serve as Senior Advisor to the Secretary
for Mental Health and Opioid Policy, in addition to his duties as
Assistant Secretary for Health.
These individuals will help advance three of Secretary
Azar’s previously identified four initiatives for his
transformation agenda: combating the opioid crisis; bringing down
the high cost of prescription drugs; addressing the cost and
availability of health insurance; and transforming our healthcare
system to a value-based system.
Biographical
Information
An accomplished healthcare executive with broad
leadership experience, James Parker has spent his career working to
provide Americans with quality, affordable health insurance. He
most recently served as Chief Executive Officer of MDwise, Inc., an
Indiana Medicaid managed care organization with over 300,000
members and $1.4 billion in revenue. He also led the development of
a provider-sponsored health plan and population health management
capabilities within Indiana University Health, an
Indianapolis-based integrated health system and served as co-chair
of the Indiana University Health Population Health Management
Services Organization. Mr. Parker previously spent 20 years with
Anthem, Inc. in a number of senior leadership roles advancing
initiatives to improve the quality and affordability of health insurance.
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