Terry McInnis

President

As President and Founder of Blue Thorn Inc., Dr. McInnis interacts nationally with government, providers, payers, academia, patient advocacy groups, and plans to help forge a more financially sustainable and quality enhanced delivery system.  She Co-Chairs The Center for Public Payer Implementation and Co-leads the  Medication Management Taskforce for the Patient- Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) where she continues to lead strategies including benefit design changes aimed to successfully coordinate care, improve patient outcomes, and reduce overall healthcare costs.  In 2010, her leadership efforts were accredited for the successful compilation, launch, and wide-spread adoption of the PCPCC Resource Guide: Integrating Comprehensive Medication Management to Optimize Patient Outcomes where she and a large group of key stakeholders definitively defined medication management as a critical component for success in transforming to a coordinated care system.  She has suggested language and demonstration projects at the state and federal level that have become law or agency adopted policy by working with both legislators and their staffs, federal and state agencies, and multiple stakeholders, while continuing to work on meaningful reform. She continues to work extensively on the value proposition and practical implementation of patient-centric ‘coordination of medications’, including the uniform expansion of practice and documentation standards for pharmaceutical care, delivery system integration, and payment reform realignment.  As a key strategist and national spokesperson, Dr. McInnis presents at the request of government agencies, legislative bodies, professional associations, integrated delivery systems, health plans, business coalitions, and patient advocacy groups, and was featured in the Washington Redskins’ “Time-out for Your Health” segments.