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Center to Promote Public Payer Implementation Leadership
Gary Jacobs, Co-Chair
Gary Jacobs serves as senior vice president, corporate development for Universal American Corporation and was founder of CHCS Services. In his position he is responsible for the company’s government affairs and corporate development efforts. As founder and president of CHCS Services, which was acquired by Universal American in 2000, he has been instrumental in positioning the company as the leading third party administrator focusing on senior market products.
Prior to founding CHCS Services, Jacobs was the executive director of Staff Builders Health Care Services, a Medicare-certified home health agency. Previously, he was president of HMI, a national HMO management and consulting firm. Jacobs serves on the board of the Coral Springs Museum of Art as well as on the Business Advisory Board of the National Hispanic Council on Aging. He holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Boston University and a master's in public administration from American University.
Donna Lichti, Co-Chair
Pfizer Health Solutions ([email protected])
Donna Lichti is senior director, customer marketing group for Pfizer Inc. Her primary responsibilities include the strategic direction of operations management and partner development. In her prior role at Pfizer, she managed the development of health improvement programs in Medicaid, the employer market and internationally. Prior to joining Pfizer, Lichti was director of business development, marketing and sales for United Health Care’s Evercare Division in New York. She was primarily responsible for the product focusing on the institutionalized frail elderly.
Lichti’s experiences in the health care arena range from software development, communications and marketing to development of specialty health care business models. She owned and operated home health care businesses and founded one of the first infusion- based nursing services in the country. Lichti is a graduate of Pace University Leinhard School of Nursing.
Terry McInnis, Co-Chair
GlaxoSmithKline (t[email protected])
Terry McInnis, MD, MPH, FACOEM, is the President of Blue Thorn Inc., consulting with Medication Management Systems. McInnis has presented nationally on the concepts of primary care delivery system redesign, payer reimbursement strategies, and quality initiatives that reduce health care costs and improve patient outcomes. She has or continues to serve on numerous committees for organizations such as the National Business Group on Health, U.S. Chamber, Pharmacy Quality Alliance, and the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. She is actively involved with health policy and advocacy at the state and federal government levels in emerging payment systems.
McInnis has more than 20 years of senior executive and clinical experience in various employer, military and hospital/group practice health management segments. Prior to becoming President of Blue Thorn Inc., she was an associate medical director and health care manager with General Electric, and later the corporate medical director for Michelin North America where she helped engineer the redesign of health care benefits for nearly 50,000 beneficiaries. McInnis was then a medical director for health policy and advocacy with GlaxoSmithKline.
McInnis graduated from Erskine College with a bachelor’s degree and earned her medical degree from Wake Forest Medical School. She completed a residency in occupational medicine as an OPSF scholar, and a master’s degree in public health at the University of Oklahoma. She is board certified in preventive and occupational medicine, and a fellow of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. She serves on the board of trustees of the Thornwell Home for Children.
Lesley Reeder, Co-Chair
Rocky Mountain Health Plans ([email protected])
Lesley Reeder, RN, BSN, is the Senior Manager of Government Programs for Rocky Mountain Health Plans, a Colorado-based not-for-profit health plan. In her role with Rocky, she serves as a liaison to the state Medicaid agency, the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing, on behalf of Rocky’s Medicaid, CHP+ and Medicaid Regional Care Coordination Organization (RCCO) members.
Ms. Reeder is co-chair of the Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative’s (PCPCC) Center for Public Payer Implementation and serves as a resource for states interested in developing medical home programs. Topics of expertise include: state participation in multi-payer medical home pilots, developing outcomes-based payment incentive models for hospitals and managed care organizations and utilizing stakeholder groups to inform policy-making.
Previously, Ms. Reeder worked in Quality Improvement and Long Term Care for the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing and before that, was a labor and delivery nurse at Avista Hospital in Louisville, Colorado and a clinical nurse instructor for Regis University in Denver.
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