Appointment broadens reach of expanding care and care management company
BRENTWOOD, Tenn., March 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- INSPIRIS, the Brentwood, Tenn.-based provider of care management for the frail elderly, announced today that well-known economist and health care policy expert Stuart Altman has been appointed to its board of directors.
INSPIRIS is an expert care and care management company focused on improving the quality of life for the frail elderly, the chronically ill and those with disabilities, while reducing the cost to Medicare Advantage, Medicaid and commercial health plans.
Altman comes to the INSPIRIS Board of Directors following a period of rapid growth and service expansion. In 2007, INSPIRIS added seven new service line contracts and began operations in the North/Central Florida Daytona and Philadelphia markets. INSPIRIS now meets the care and care management needs of qualifying members on behalf of multiple Medicare and Medicaid health plans representing more than 400,000 senior members in six states.
Altman is dean of The Heller School for Social Policy & Management and Sol C. Chaikin Professor of National Health Policy at Brandeis University. He has both a master's degree and doctorate in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles, and taught at Brown University and the Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley.
"It is an honor to have an individual of Dr. Altman's stature and experience on the board of INSPIRIS," said Mike Tudeen, INSPIRIS' president and chief executive officer. "Dr. Altman has worked to help shape system reforms within Medicare and has long been a respected health care policy leader. We look forward to his significant contribution and oversight as he serves on INSPIRIS's Board of Directors."
A prolific writer of books and journal articles on health care payment
systems and economic policy, Altman was listed in 200
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