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Steven Boos Director, Program Operations- Value Based Care

Piedmont Healthcare

Steven Boos has worked in health care for 14 years, both in Information Systems and in Operations. After obtaining Masters Degrees in Health Administration and Business Administration, he served as the Director of one of ChenMed’s JenCare Senior Medical Centers in Virginia, where Steven realized his passion for Value Based Care.

Today, Boos develops programs that support Primary Care across Piedmont Healthcare’s footprint in Georgia, with an emphasis on initiatives that enhance value-based care delivery while operating in a fee-for-service delivery system.

Paige Caprara Quality Improvement Consultant

Rex Wallace Consulting, LLC

Paige holds a Master’s degree in English and Human Development. She has over 10 years of experience in healthcare management, specializing in Medicare strategy, population health, and value-based contracting. ​ 

​Previously, Paige supported Accountable Care Organizations at Collaborative Health Systems and led Quality Improvement at WellCare Health Plans. She also managed provider education at BayCare Health System, advancing healthcare outcomes and operational efficiency. 

In her free time, Paige enjoys spending time with her daughters and two dogs, traveling, hiking and doing yoga.  

Elizabeth A. Chidothe FNP, Value Based Program Manager

Medica

Elizabeth Chidothe is a Value Based Program Manager with Medica.  She received her Master's of Science in Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania.  She has worked in multiple primary care settings with a passion for an accessible holistic and preventative approach to chronic disease prevention and management. With this passion, she became a founding member of the nurse-led startups Retrace Health and Nice Healthcare whose missions were to provide affordable and convenient care to patients via video and in their homes. As a leader in both companies, she rigorously worked on establishing policies, programs, and frameworks for the company and for the people she managed that would set the stage for quality and holistic care for the populations they served. She came to Medica in hopes to impact the longevity and vitality of populations through her work with Value Based Care.  Outside of work, she sits on the ANA Innovation Advisory Committee for policy and determinants of health equity. 

Reyann Davis, MPH Director, Value-Based Care

A&M Rural and Community Health Institute | Texas A&M Health

Reyann Davis is the Director of Value-Based Care at Texas A&M Rural and Community Health Institute. Reyann oversees the population health team that supports the transition to value-based care for rural healthcare providers in Texas. She works collaboratively with rural providers and hospitals offering services that empower and strengthen their value-based care operations and expertise. Reyann has over a decade of value-based care executive leadership experience, including operating clinically integrated networks, accountable care organizations, leading network operations team at manage service organization in Medicare Advantage and commercial, and operating a high-performing provider network is risk arrangements including capitation and sub-capitation. Reyann Davis is also the co-founder of Value Health Innovations and TEAM Connect providing operational support for various alternative payment models.

Shannon Decker Principal

VBC One

Dr. Shannon Decker is principal at VBC One, a consulting firm assisting physician groups, health plans and vendors maximize the performance of their value based contracts and offerings. Dr. Decker has more than 20 years experience in health care and most recently led teams in risk, quality, data and analytics, telehealth, COVID response and delegation compliance. Of her more than 20 years of experience in healthcare--15 include working with risk adjustment, quality and Medicare. Dr. Decker has a PhD. in Interdisciplinary Studies, dual MBA degrees--in Finance and in Marketing, as well as an M.Ed. in Secondary Education and a M.Ed. in Administration and Leadership. Dr. Decker is on the faculty at Arizona State University and is also an associate professor of Higher Education & Adult Learning (HEAL) and chief methodologist for Walden and Capella Universities where she chairs and oversees the dissertations of doctoral students. An author of two books and several peer-reviewed articles, and a prolific national public speaker, her interests include the study of human behavior and how theories on motivation and learning may be brought to bear on population health management.

Scott Early, MD Co-Founder & President

On Belay Health Solutions

On Belay’s clinical thought leader. A Dartmouth Medical School graduate, Scott was selected by classmates as a graduation speaker. He is recognized as an innovative thinker and is passionate about improving primary care for patients and providers. He served for 17 years as the founding director of the Lawrence Family Medicine Residency Program - a nationally recognized program for innovation - followed by five years as chief medical officer at a federally funded community health center. In 2015, he founded Kronos Health, a Lawrence, Mass.-based medical practice delivering patient-centered care in a dramatically higher touch, higher impact primary care model where providers spend over 30 minutes per visit with patients on average. 

Arlene Godinez Senior Program Manager

VBC One

Arlene Godinez is a Senior Program Manager at VBC One, specializing in Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) and quality/risk adjustment programs. Drawing on her hands-on experience as a former medical assistant in family practice, Arlene brings a unique perspective to healthcare documentation that bridges clinical practice with operational excellence. 

In her current role, Arlene develops and oversees customized CDI training programs focused on retrospective chart reviews, helping healthcare providers optimize their documentation for both quality care and regulatory compliance. Her expertise spans financial accuracy, quality measure validation, and population health management strategies. 

Currently pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Healthcare Administration with a focus in Leadership, Arlene combines practical experience with emerging best practices in healthcare management to deliver comprehensive solutions for medical practices of all sizes. 

Dr. Ekaette Joseph-Isang Principal Consultant

Ritebridge

Dr. Ekaette Joseph-Isang is a subject matter expert in population health and value-based care with over 20 years combined experience in payor-provider strategy. 

Her expertise cuts across population health, risk adjustment, healthcare quality, and healthcare innovation. Her specialty is in serving as a bridge between payers and providers and supporting  organizations in getting their providers the tools,  resources, and education that they need to stay competitive and efficient in the value based care space. 

She is certified across multiple professional organizations in the risk adjustment, CDI, coding, and healthcare quality and is highly sought after for healthcare strategy and operations consulting. 

Sameer Kalarn Associate Consultant

Helgerson Solutions Group

Sameer brings his experience in analytics, data systems, and reporting to create success in value based care environments. He believes that true value driven patient centered care can be achieved through the creation of robust access to meaningful and actionable healthcare data.

Sameer joins HSG with experience working in federally qualified health center and community based organization environments. He heavily worked to develop monitoring and evaluation methods for program interventions, quality incentive programs, and value based care contracts through expanding structured data systems and building reporting capacity. He has additional experience in creating clinical and operations workflows needed for rapid implementation of interventions, most recently the adoption of telemedicine and COVID-19 testing and vaccinations in health centers and mobile community based programs.

Alex Koster AVP of Value Transformation

Nemours Children’s Health

Samrat Kulkarni Data Scientist and AI Consultant

Former Al @CVS Health

Brandi Kurtyka CEO

MissionCare Collective

Corella Lumpkins Manager of Coding, Compliance and Provider Education

Loudoun Medical Group P.C.

Jessica Moschella

Jessica joined the University of Vermont Health Network in January 2023 as senior vice president for high value care. She is responsible for leading the organization’s work to improve outcomes for patients across Vermont and northern New York and advance value within the care delivery system. 

Jessica has deep experience in value-based care and population health. Prior to her role with UVM Health Network, she served as executive director of the Newton-Wellesley Physician Hospital Organization and vice president of provider network performance, executive director of Emerson Physician Hospital Organization and director of population health management at Mass General Brigham (formerly Partners HealthCare). Jessica also served as the administrative director for the Massachusetts Health Care Quality and Cost Council.  

She has an extensive background in public health programming domestically and internationally. This includes serving as the director of HIV community services at the Cambridge Health Alliance, providing consultant services to hospitals, schools and NGOs throughout South Africa and serving as Peace Corps volunteer in Bolivia.  

Jessica completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania and graduated from Tulane University’s School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine with a Master’s Degree in Public Health in International Health and Development.  

Sakina Pasha Wells Director, Population Health Strategy and Operations

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona

Sakina Pasha Wells leads value-based care, population health, and care-delivery performance strategies as the Director of Population Health Strategy and Operations at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona. Sakina spearheads cross-functional strategies that drive practice transformation for Arizona providers that lead to health outcomes improvement and cost of care strategies for patients across the state. Sakina is also the owner and a consultant for Integra Health Solutions, a consulting firm that focuses on strategic planning, population health and value-based care, as well as provider and practice management. In Sakina’s previous roles she focused on serving the provider community though healthcare and practice management, as well as through healthcare policy consulting. Sakina earned her Bachelor’s from Barnard College, Columbia University in Cellular Neuroscience and Behavior with a minor in Science, Public Policy, and Ethics, and soon after finished her Master’s at Arizona State University in the Science of Health Care Delivery as well as her Six Sigma Black Belt Certification. She is highly engaged in her community, and most recently served as the healthcare liaison on Arizona’s early childhood education board for the South Phoenix Council, and is on the Executive Leadership Team for the American Heart Association’s West Valley Heart Walk. Sakina is passionate about building solutions to fix our nation's healthcare system, promoting access to integrated health supports, and improving access to community resources. 

Kristin Poth VP, Health Services

John Hopkins

Juliette Price Chief Solutions Officer

Helgerson Solutions Group

Juliette serves as HSG’s Chief Solutions Officer, bringing creative problem-solving and strategy to deliver breakthrough results for her clients. She deeply believes that solutions to our most complex issues can be designed through systems thinking, collaborative problem solving, creating data-informed solutions, and bringing concepts and processes across sectors. She advises a wide variety of clients including providers & provider groups such as ACOs and IPAs, payers, start-ups, government agencies, social service providers, and others. Her focus in health care is on building value-based care models, both clinically and fiscally, to advance better patient outcomes and reduce costs in health care. Her approach to building these models has enabled Juliette to lead extremely complex contract negotiations and win her clients fair and balanced value-based contracts that enable innovation and patient outcomes to flourish. 

Sue Ream Workforce Development Executive

Humana

Laura Sheriff RN, MSN, CPC, CRC, Risk Adjustment Industry Expert

Laura Sheriff is a highly experienced and skilled professional in the healthcare industry, with a wealth of knowledge and expertise in risk adjustment, quality improvement, and population health analytics. With her background in Medicare, Medicaid, and Marketplace Managed Care, as well as her leadership abilities and certifications as a professional coder and risk coder, Laura brings a unique set of skills to her consulting work with physician groups and health plans. 

Sharan Singhota Clinical Transformation and Strategy Development

Nemours Children’s Health

Tim Smith Chief Actuary

Arbital Health

Tim Smith has been Chief Actuary at Arbital Health since January 2025 where he leads various client engagements and acts as a subject matter expert for all future and current clients. He brings his 30 years of experience working in value-based care (VBC) and medical economics to assist in the design and promotion of our platform solution. Tim previously built an actuarial practice in Pittsburgh with Axene Health Partners where he consulted regularly with payers, provider and other clients throughout the healthcare industry focused on creating actionable analytics to succeed financially, especially in the world of VBC. Prior to building his actuarial practice, Tim led Highmark Health’s Enterprise Actuarial and Informatics function, responsible for their value-based reimbursement models, tiered-network products, population health analytics, specialty efficiency and care alignment, and provider contract optimization.  Prior to this he led medical economics and care cost analysis for Coventry Health Care. Tim is a frequent speaker on health care and medical economics and analytics information.  He has been an adjunct professor at Penn State University School of Business. He holds an M.S. degree in Information Systems and a B.S. degree in Mathematics both from Penn State University.  He is an Associate of the Society of Actuaries and a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries.   He lives in the Pittsburgh area with his wife, with two children attending college in Boston.