Andrew Webber joined the National Business Coalition on Health (NBCH) as President and CEO in June of 2003. NBCH is a national, not-for-profit, membership organization of 80 local and regional business coalitions on health, dedicated to health system reform through value-based purchasing, community by community. As President and CEO, Mr. Webber is responsible for directing all association activities including value based purchasing programs, government relations, education and training, communications, and technical assistance.
Mr. Webber currently sits on the Board of Directors of the National Quality Forum, the Leapfrog Group, the Bridges to Excellence organization, and the Center for Information Therapy. He is a member of the Purchaser/Business Advisory Councils for the National Committee for Quality Assurance, the Joint Commission for the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, and the eHealth Initiative.
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WEBBER
Prior to joining NBCH, Mr. Webber was a Vice President for External Relations and Public Policy at the National Committee for Quality Assurance. In this role, Mr. Webber directed all government relation activities and outreach efforts to the employer and consumer communities. Previous positions also include Senior Associate for the Consumer Coalition for Quality Health Care and Executive Vice President for the American Medical Peer Review Association (currently renamed the American Health Quality Association). Mr. Webber started his health care career in 1978 as an employee of the Washington Business Group on Health (WBGH), rising to the position of Vice President for Public Policy. Mr. Webber is a frequent speaker and lecturer on health care policy issues. He is a graduate of Harvard University.
Neil Goldfarb is Executive Director of the newly formed Greater Philadelphia Business Coalition on Health. He retired as Associate Dean of Research at Jefferson School of Population Health in July 2011. Mr. Goldfarb will continue a teaching and research consulting relationship with Jefferson. As Associate Dean of Research he was responsible for developing research strategy, designing studies, mentoring research fellows, and managing research staff. Prior to his appointment as Associate Dean, Mr. Goldfarb was a research consultant to the Department and Executive Director of MEDISYS QI, Inc., a quality improvement consulting and data collection firm serving the health care industry. In a three year period, Mr. Goldfarb led MQI from being a start-up venture to having over $1 million in annual revenues, helping managed care plans prepare for accreditation and complete their HEDIS reports, designing and conducting evaluations of care processes and outcomes, and managing large projects requiring clinical record review.
NEIL
GOLDFARB
Before starting MEDISYS QI in 1997, Mr. Goldfarb was Vice President of Health Services and Provider Relations for Healthcare Management Alternatives, Inc. (HMA), a large Medicaid HMO in the Philadelphia region. In this role, Mr. Goldfarb was responsible for all quality management and utilization management operations, pharmacy utilization management initiatives, provider contracting and credentialing activities, and program evaluation activities.
Mr. Goldfarb is an experienced health services researcher, having held positions at Thomas Jefferson University in the Department of Family Medicine, and the University of Pennsylvania, in the Division of General Internal Medicine. He remains a Senior Fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at Penn, and he completed all course work toward a degree from the doctoral program in health care management at The Wharton School. Mr. Goldfarb is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Health Policy at University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, and also serves as evaluation consultant to the Health Federation of Philadelphia.
Jerry Burgess is President/CEO of HealthCare 21 Business Coalition and serves as the program director of the College for Value Based Purchasing of Health Benefits. He also serves as director of HC21's sister coalition in Greenville, South Carolina; the South Carolina Business Coalition on Health. Jerry holds a Master's of Business Administration degree with a double concentration in Marketing and Management and three undergraduate degrees. Jerry has over 30 years experience as a senior executive in the health care industry and is a frequent speaker and lecturer on health care. He has held executive positions with three large healthcare systems: St. Mary's Health System of Knoxville, Christ Hospital of Cincinnati and Methodist Health Systems of Memphis. Jerry has served on the Board of Governors and Executive Committee for the National Business Coalition on Health. In addition, Jerry is an Adjunct Professor for one of the nation’s top MBA programs for physicians at the University of Tennessee. In June 2010, Jerry graduated from the Leadership Knoxville program.
HC21 is a non-profit, member driven organization committed to improving the quality of health care for East and Middle Tennessee. HC21 has over 90 corporate members representing 500,000 covered lives. HC21 was one of the first Leapfrog roll-out regions; the first in the US to publish Leapfrog results and a participant in the National Quality Forum (NQF) Summit.
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BURGESS
Meet the faculty...
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- Andrew Webber, President
National Business Coalition on Health
- Neil Goldfarb, Executive Director
Greater Philadelphia Business Coalition on Health
- Jerry Burgess, President / CEO
HealthCare 21 Business Coalition
