Category: Medicaid Industry Who’s Who

Linda Rosenberg is the featured panelist for the upcoming webinar on Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics on April 4^th. RESERVE your seat today!

 

Medicaid Who’s Who: Linda Rosenberg – President and CEO, National Council on Behavioral Health

1. Which segment of the Industry are you currently involved?

A: Mental health and addictions – behavioral health: advocacy and education

2. What is your current position and with what organization?

A: President and CEO, National Council for Behavioral Health

3. How many years have you been in the Medicaid industry?

A: More than I care to count – 25 years

4. What is your focus/passion? (Industry related or not)

A: Mental Health First Aid; Expansion of the Excellence in Mental Health Act – creating Certified Community Behavioral Health Centers to expand access to services and support services of the highest quality

5. What do you enjoy doing most with your personal time?

A: Being with my grandchildren

6. Who is your favorite historical figure and why?

A: Dorothea Dix – her effective advocacy on behalf of people with mental illness

7. What is your favorite junk food?

A: Frozen devil dogs

8. Of what accomplishment are you most proud?

A: Personally – raising two wonderful sons; professionally – bringing Mental Health First Aid to the US.

9. For what one thing do you wish you could get a mulligan?

A:  Not a thing – it is not my style to look back

10. What are the top 1-3 issues that you think will be important in Medicaid during the next 6 months?

A: Establishment of Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics; development of a continuum of community based services that reflect addictions as chronic medical conditions; pressure on candidates for President/party platforms to detail how they would increase mental health and addictions service capacity and quality

Don’t miss hearing Linda Rosenberg during the upcoming webinar on Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics on April 4^th. RESERVE your seat today!

Jay Ludlam is the featured panelist for the upcoming State Spotlight Series Show: Missouri Medicaid on March 18^th. RESERVE your seat today!

 

Medicaid Who’s Who: Jay Ludlam – Deputy Division Director of Administrative and Fiscal Services, MO HealthNet (Missouri Medicaid)

1. What is your current position and with what organization?

 A: Deputy Division Director of Administrative and Fiscal Services for MO HealthNet (Missouri Medicaid)

2. How many years have you been in the Medicaid industry?

A: 9 years

3. What is your focus/passion? (Industry related or not)

A: Demonstrate that a state-run Medicaid program can provide participants with all the services to which they are entitled and also be run efficiently and effectively, like a commercial business.

4. What is the top item on your “bucket list?”

A: Fly in space

5. What do you enjoy doing most with your personal time?

A: Traveling.  If I am not traveling, I spend as much time as possible with my family.

6. Who is your favorite historical figure and why?

A: Charles Darwin because he observed the world around him and gave voice to ideas which challenged the beliefs of his time.

7. What is your favorite junk food?

A: French fries, chocolate chip mint ice cream and blueberry muffins

8. Of what accomplishment are you most proud?

A: My case State of Missouri v. Spilton which establishes Missouri case law that statutorily defined civil penalties are permissible when prosecuting civil Medicaid fraud.

9. For what one thing do you wish you could get a mulligan?

A: I wish I had bought stock in our competitor, America Online, back in 1994.

10. What are the top 1-3 issues that you think will be important in Medicaid during the next 6 months?

A: New Access regulations, new Pharmacy regulations and MMIS modularity

 

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