Helen Darling

National Business Group on Health ([email protected])

Helen Darling is president of the National Business Group on Health, a national non-profit, membership organization devoted exclusively to providing practical solutions to its employer-members' most important health care problems and representing large employers' perspective on national health policy issues.  Its more than 282 members, including 60 of the Fortune 100 in 2008, purchase health and disability benefits for over 55 million employees, retirees and dependents. 

Darling was the 2009 recipient of the WorldatWork’s prestigious Keystone Award, its highest honor in recognition of sustained contributions to the field of Human Resources and Benefits. She serves on: the Committee on Performance Measurement of the National Committee for Quality Assurance (co-chair for 10 years); the Medical Advisory Panel, Technology Evaluation Center, (Blue Cross Blue Shield Association); the Institute of Medicine’s Roundtable on Evidence-Based Medicine; the Board of the National Quality Forum; Medicare Coverage Advisory Committee; the Governance Committee of Care Focused Purchasing; and the Board of the Congressionally-created Reagan-Udall Foundation.