Dan brings over 20 years of valuable experience in operations, implementation and client delivery. He holds a master’s degree in Health Administration from the University of Oklahoma and a bachelor’s degree in Management with a Marketing minor from Oklahoma State University.
Dan served as Chief Operating Officer of Molina Healthcare’s Medicaid plans in Oklahoma, Wisconsin and Mississippi, Vice President of Performance Management and Operational Excellence for Molina’s New Mexico plan, and was Molina’s operations subject matter expert for its successful Mississippi Medicaid bid.
Dan was previously the executive director of Optum’s dedicated site launch team, where he led implementations of operations in Oklahoma, Kansas, Ohio, and Idaho.
Dan also served as the client delivery executive for APS Healthcare, simultaneously leading operations for the Oklahoma EQRO, managing a behavioral health utilization management program for the Oklahoma Medicaid agency, and implementing a utilization management program for the Oklahoma State Educators and Employees Group Insurance Board.
His provider operations experience includes the start-up and management of a rural Federally Qualified Health Center, as well as the implementation of a strategic planning methodology at Parkland Health and Hospital System in Dallas that resulted in over $110 million in benefit.
He has a keen grasp of the impact of social determinants of health, especially transportation, on healthcare costs; the criticality of finely tuned operations; the importance of crisply executed implementations; and how consistent and timely outcomes measurement build strong operations and positive client relationships.
