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Gene L. Dodaro, Comptroller General of the United States and head of the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), recently announced the appointment of two Indian American new members to the Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee (PTAC).
The newly appointed 2 members are Henish Bhansali, MD, FACP and Krishna Ramachandran, MBA, MS. Their terms will expire in 2027. The Comptroller General is responsible for appointing members to the committee.
“PTAC provides valuable information to the Department of Health and Human Services aimed at maximizing the value of the $1 trillion in annual Medicare spending,” Dodaro said. “I am pleased to announce the appointment of two new committee members with extensive knowledge and experience in value-based payment and care models.”
Brief biographies of the new committee members are:
Henish Bhansali, MD, FACP, is the Chief Medical Officer for Medical Home Network, a healthcare organization that partners with Federally Qualified Health Centers, Primary Care Associations, and Clinically Integrated Networks to build the capabilities to succeed in value-based care. He also serves on the National Association of ACOs (NAACOS) Board of Directors and as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health. Dr. Bhansali received his medical degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine graduating with Honors (AOA) and trained in Internal Medicine at Washington University/Barnes Jewish Hospital in St. Louis.
Krishna Ramachandran, MBA, MS, is Senior Vice President of Health Transformation and Provider Adoption at Blue Shield of California. In this position, he leads partnerships and innovations aimed at improving healthcare quality and affordability for members and providing tools and support for providers. Mr. Ramachandran received his MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and his Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
PTAC was created by the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) to improve how the federal Medicare program pays physicians for the care they provide to Medicare beneficiaries.
