Soaring To New Health – Season 1

Andrew Leads ProspHire’s Medicare Stars Performance solutions, where he oversees the delivery and execution all of Stars project work, including contract assessments, program transformations, amongst other services. His work within managed care has a particular focus on Medicare Quality Improvement and Medicaid Performance Improvement Programs. 

Daniel Weaver is the Senior Vice President of Stars and Quality at Zing Health, a tech-forward health plan based in Chicago. With over 25 years of experience in Operations and Star Ratings strategy, he helps organizations implement and maintain a high–performing Stars infrastructure to support rapid growth.  

Julie leads the SDOH practice at ProspHire and is skilled in project management, process improvement and public health and healthcare marketing. She is passionate about SDOH and health equity focused initiatives and helps client’s development and design program interventions and strategies for areas of profound health disparity.

Dan is the Senior Director of UPMC Center for Social Impact at UPMC Health Plan. He leads the Center’s program development team with a multi-million-dollar budget of scalable community-based organization partnerships. The goal is to help UPMC Health Plan members – and communities as a whole – find jobs, housing and other social supports.

Paul is the CEO for North American Dental Group (NADG) and is passionate about pioneering a new culture of dentistry. He joined NADG as COO in January 2022 and became CEO in June 2022. He brings over a decade of experience in the healthcare industry.  

Armanda is the VP of Operations at North American Dental (NADG) and has worked in an operations role for the organization for 10 years, bringing non-clinical administrative services to more than 240+ affiliated dental practices across 15 states. 

Lauren became the Managing Principal and CEO when she co-founded the Firm in 2015. She serves a vital role in developing the Firm’s strategic priorities, onboarding new clients and partnering with complementary and highly specialized organizations. 

Chris is a seasoned pharmacy executive, entrepreneur and innovator.  He has broad industry expertise due to his diverse organization roles including President at Asti’s Pharmacy, President at Perigon Pharmacy 360, Director of Pharmacy at Henderson Brothers Inc. and Chief Strategy Officer at Pharmacy Marketplace Inc.

Mark is a Consultant and Pharmacist with experience in pharmacy benefit management, specialty pharmacy strategy, clinical digital innovation, process improvement and project management. He drives improved adherence and bottom-line savings for patients and payers and he also helps payer clients reduce their prescription drug spend by performing analyses and implementing utilization management strategies.

Caitlin has 10+ years’ experience in the healthcare industry and Medicare, Medicaid and provider sectors. Caitlin excels at managing complex programs and projects, identifying gaps and driving significant cost savings and revenue generation for clients.

Matt specializes in project management, business transformation and process improvement. He is skilled at driving operational assessments and managing operations in corporate, private practice and retail settings.