Medicare Payment Policy

Herb B. Kuhn is current president and chief executive
officer of the Missouri Hospital Association (MHA), the
trade association serving the state’s 176 hospitals and
health systems. Before joining MHA, Mr. Kuhn served
in multiple roles at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Services, including as deputy administrator from 2006
to 2009 and as director of the Center for Medicare
Management from 2004 to 2006. From 2000 to 2004, Mr.
Kuhn served as corporate vice president for the Premier
Hospital Alliance, serving 1,600 institutional members.
From 1987 through 2000, Mr. Kuhn worked in federal
relations with the American Hospital Association. Mr.
Kuhn received his bachelor of science in business from
Emporia State University.
george n. Miller, Jr., M.H.s.A., has, over the past two
decades, managed a series of hospitals, leading financial
turnarounds at four of them. Mr. Miller is the chief
executive officer of Okmulgee Memorial Hospital in
Okmulgee, OK. Previously, he was the president and chief
executive officer of First Diversity Healthcare Group, a
national health care consulting firm helping health care
organizations improve their operations; regional president
and chief executive officer of Community Mercy Health
Partners; and senior vice president of Catholic Health
Partners, a hospital chain in the Springfield, OH, area. He
has run hospitals in Illinois, Texas, and Virginia and is a
past-president of the National Rural Health Association.
Mr. Miller has been an adjunct professor for the master’s
of Health Care Services Administration for Central
Michigan University since 1998. He has an undergraduate
degree in business administration from Bowling Green
State University and a master of science in health services
administration from Central Michigan University.
Mary naylor, ph.D., R.n., F.A.A.n., is the Marian
S. Ware professor in gerontology and director of the
NewCourtland Center for Transitions and Health at the
University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. Since
1989, Dr. Naylor has led an interdisciplinary program
of research designed to improve the quality of care,
decrease unnecessary hospitalizations, and reduce health
care costs for vulnerable community-based elders. Dr.
Naylor is also the national program director for the Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation program, Interdisciplinary
Nursing Quality Research Initiative, aimed at generating,
disseminating, and translating research to understand
how nurses contribute to quality patient care. She was
elected to the National Academy of Sciences, Institute of
Medicine in 2005. She also is a member of the RAND
Health Board, the National Quality Forum Board of
Directors, and the immediate past-chair of the Board of
the Long-Term Quality Alliance. Dr. Naylor received her
M.S.N. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and
her B.S. in nursing from Villanova University.
David nerenz, ph.D., is director of the Center for Health
Policy and Health Services Research at the Henry Ford
Health System in Detroit, MI, as well as director of
outcomes research at the Neuroscience Institute and vicechair
for research of the Department of Neurosurgery
at Henry Ford Hospital. He has served on the National
Committee for Quality Assurance’s Culturally and
Linguistically Appropriate Services Workgroup and on
the Accountable Care Organization Technical Advisory
Committee of the American Medical Group Association
and has served as a principal on the Hospital Quality
Alliance. Dr. Nerenz has served on several committees
of the Institute of Medicine, including as chair of the
Committee on Leading Health Indicators for Healthy
People 2020. He serves on the editorial boards of
Population Health Management and Medical Care
Research and Review.
Rita Redberg, M.D., is professor of clinical medicine
at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF)
Medical Center in San Francisco, CA. A cardiologist,
Dr. Redberg is also director of Women’s Cardiovascular
Services at UCSF and adjunct associate at Stanford
University’s Center for Health Policy/Center for Primary
Care and Outcomes Research. She is editor of JAMA
Internal Medicine and a panel member on CMS’s
Medicare Evidence Development and Coverage Advisory
Committee. Dr. Redberg has served in numerous positions
on committees of the American Heart Association and the
American College of Cardiology and was a Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellow.
Craig samitt, M.D., M.B.A., is president and chief
executive officer of Dean Health System, Inc., an
integrated delivery system and provider-sponsored health
plan headquartered in Madison, WI. He has worked at
Dean since 2006 and has led the organization through
a transformation aimed at maximizing the system’s
focus as a national leader in “better care at a lower cost.”
Before joining Dean, Dr. Samitt served as chief operating
officer of the Fallon Clinic (Reliant Medical), senior vice
president at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, and chairman
of Medicine and executive director of the Kenmore Center
at Harvard Vanguard (Atrius Health). He is chair-emeritus
at the Group Practice Improvement Network, a learning
consortium of large multispecialty groups, is a director
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