With almost 30 years of health care experience, Katie has spent the last twelve years with profit and loss responsibility over Medicare Advantage products.  In those roles, she has lead corporate and market strategic direction in plans across the nation, consistently grown membership, improved unit and unit cost indicators, improved revenue trend and overseen plans improvement in Stars with several plans ranking 4.5 out of a 5 star potential.  She has overseen 13 years of Medicare Advantage bid filings, fulfillment of CMS required documentation, member websites and member/associate engagement programs. She has created and run retention programs, sales and marketing campaigns, overseen broker relationships and commission payments.  Katie has been involved in contract negotiation and account management including the creation and management of ACO and High Performance Networks. She has been the lead in due diligence over several acquisition targets and ultimate integration efforts.

Katie was mostly with Centene Corporation where she was the interim Medicare CEO, focusing on growth, organizational structure, compliance, quality, strategy, product and sales and marketing.  Prior to that, she spent 4 years with Coventry, through the Aetna Acquisition where she was both a corporate General Manager (2010) and market General Manager (KS, MO, OK, AR: 2011-2014). From 2000 to 2010, Katie worked at Humana where she worked in Provider Contracting and Finance, most recently as the Western Division Finance Director, overseeing 4 multi-state markets in 14 states.

She has Bachelor in Arts and Masters in Business Administration from Rockhurst University, with an educational emphasis in finance.  

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