The LAN established the Health Equity Advisory Team (HEAT) to help identify and prioritize opportunities to advance health equity through alternative payment models (APMs). The HEAT’s goal is person-centered and focuses on leveraging APMs to help make needed care more accessible, drive better patient outcomes, and reduce disparities. The team is comprised of a diverse group of regional and national health equity implementers and subject matter experts committed to mitigating health inequities in the nation’s health care system and applying APM design principles to intentionally address factors that drive health inequities. The HEAT explores crucial topics such as patient experiences, priorities, and perceptions to help inform the LAN’s yearly priorities and initiatives.
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A note from the HEAT’s Co-chairs, Karen Dale and Marshall Chin
Morenike Ayo-Vaughn
Program Officer
Advancing Health Equity
The Commonwealth Fund
Michael Currie
Senior Vice President & Chief Health Equity Officer
UnitedHealth Group
Kate Davidson
Director, Learning and Diffusion Group
Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Chris DeMars
Director, Transformation Center
Deputy Director, Delivery Systems Innovation Office
Oregon Health Authority
Dr. Damon Francis
Medical Director
Homeless Health Center at Alameda Health System
Dr. Mark Friedberg
Senior Vice President
Performance Measurement and Improvement
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
Dr. Romana Hasnain-Wynia
Chief Research Officer
Denver Health
Bukata Hayes
Vice President of Racial and Health Equity
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota
Sinsi Hernández-Cancio
Vice President for Health Justice
National Partnership for Women & Families
Dr. Craig Jones
Partner
Capitol Health Associates
Jennifer Kons
Health Director, Community Investment
United Way of Greater Cleveland
Dr. Jody Levison-Johnson
President and CEO
Social Current
Dr. Lenny Lopez
Professor of Medicine
University of California San Francisco
Chief of Hospital Medicine
San Francisco VA Medical Center
Jean Moody-Williams
Deputy Director
Center for Clinical Standards & Quality
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Dr. Jennifer Moore
Founding Executive Director
Institute for Medicaid Innovation
Dr. David Nerenz
Director
Emeritus of Center for Health Policy & Health Services Research
Henry Ford Health System
Dr. Jose Peña*
Chief Executive Officer & Chief Medical Director
Rio Grande Valley ACO
Jerry Peterson
Executive Director
Ruth Ellis Center
Dr. Jorge Petit
President
Dr. J Petit Psychiatry Services
Taylor Priestly
Deputy Director
Health Equity & Quality Transformation
Covered California
Dr. Pamela Riley
Medical Director
Department of Health Care Finance
Washington DC Medicaid
Dr. Purva Rawal
Chief Strategy Officer
Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Cary Sanders
Senior Policy Director
California Pan-Ethnic Health Network
Christina Severin
President & Chief Executive Officer
Community Care Cooperative
Aswita Tan-McGrory
Director
The Disparities Solutions Center
Administrative Director
The Mondan Institute
Dr. Ellen-Marie Whelan
Chief Population Health Officer
Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
