Health Reform

Senior Vice President, Government & Strategies

Stephen Wood is a Senior Vice President in Ingenix Consulting and leads in the Government Programs Management and Strategy practice. His work in senior markets dates to the mid 1980s when he worked with hospitals to implement DRG payments by Medicare. Since that time, he has worked with insuring organizations to review and develop strategies, conduct new product feasibility assessments, improve performance and implement new programs.

Stephen has experience in managed care, governmental programs, senior markets and strategic consulting in the health insurance industry. Recently, he has worked with health care reform, Medicare payment reform and Medicaid expansion; Medicare Advantage and PDP market and business strategies; operational gap assessments; and disease management programs. He has performed feasibility assessments and implementations for Medicare Advantage and Part D, and Medicare supplement product evaluation and development. He has also worked with PPO feasibility and demonstration application assistance, and institutionalized Medicare product evaluations. Additionally, Stephen has experience in development of Medicaid managed care programs and RFP assistance and management.

In addition to his consulting experience, Stephen has held positions in capital finance at the American Hospital Association as well as finance director and director of patient accounts at a medical group practice.

Stephen has written several articles, has co-authored two books on Medicare managed care products, and has given many presentations. He gave the Keynote Address, titled “Anticipating Health Care Changes Under the New Administration,” at the 2009 Taft-Hartley Benefits Summit. He also gave a presentation titled “Evaluating Your HCC Risk Process” at the Medicare HCC Managed Care Summit. Stephen presented “SNPs 2010 — Market Overview” to SNP Alliance, and gave two presentations on May 14, 2009, to the 3rd Annual Medicare Advantage Summit. The titles of the presentations are “The End of Private-Fee-For-Service: How to Capitalize on New Market Opportunities,” and “Implications of the 2010 Call Letter.” He also presented “The Obama Health Reform Proposal: Impact on Payers” at the Towers Perrin Healthcare Conference.

Education

Stephen graduated from the University of Chicago and holds a master’s degree from the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago. This year Stephen was named one of Consulting Magazine’s Top 25 consultants.

Associate Director, Government Program Strategies

David Zasada is a Sales Management professional with over 30 years of experience in achieving departmental sales, revenue and operational growth in the health insurance industry as well as in ancillary lines of insurance and financial services.

Vice President, Interactive Marketing and Design

Robert is a Vice President of the Interactive Marketing and Design group, which is in the Health Care Operations and Technology practice of Ingenix Consulting. He comes to Ingenix Consulting with more than 25 years of experience in marketing, sales, business operations, IT and online services.

Robert has diverse experience in the health care payer, telecommunications, computer services, internet services and wireless technology markets. He has managed numerous large-scale programs involving the implementation of corporate internets and internet portals, global product portfolios, market strategies, IT strategies and services, contract negotiations, sales and large-scale marketing programs.

Prior to joining Ingenix Consulting, Robert founded the company Studio IQ, LLC, an intelligent communications company. Before founding Studio IQ, LLC, he served as the marketing director, CIO and executive sales manager for Lucent Technologies, AT&T and NCR.

Robert’s work has been featured in Chuck Martin's best selling book Net Future. The book recognized Robert’s innovations in technology, marketing and corporate communications. He has also been featured in industry trade magazines for taking a leading position in the industry by architecting unique business solutions.

Robert holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Lehigh University. He is a member of the Usability Professionals Association (UPA), and he holds three United States patents in the areas of space-time portal navigation and automated internet communications.

Areas of Expertise

He is expert at linking strategy to execution, boosting productivity and implementing go-to-market strategies as well as managing global product portfolios.

Vice President, Operations, Process & Technology

Brian Murray is a management consultant with over 15 years of experience working with clients to improve operations through innovation, process redesign and technology automation.