Plenary Session:
Thursday, October 12, 2000
Michael M. Hash
Acting Administrator, Health Care Financing Administration
Michael M. Hash joined the Health Care Financing Administration
as Deputy Administrator on April 30, 1998. From 1995 until joining HCFA,
Mr. Hash was a principal with Health Policy Alternatives, Inc. (HPA),
a Washington-based consulting firm that specializes in health care financing
and related policy areas.
Mr. Hash served from 1990 to 1994 as Senior Staff Associate at the Subcommittee
on Health and the Environment of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. In
this capacity, he worked on Medicare, health care reform, health care
quality assurance, health care workforce issues, organ transplants, clinical
laboratories, and health services research.
From 1980 to 1990, Mr. Hash was with HPA, where he provided policy analysis
and strategic advice on health care financing and organization for a wide
array of HPA clients, including providers, practitioners, payers, and
patients. From 1973 to 1980, Mr. Hash was employed by the American Hospital
Association, with progressive responsibilities that led to his position
as Deputy Director of the Washington Office, and responsibility for management
of the Association's government relations program.
Mr. Hash is a graduate of Washington and Lee University with a major
in political science. He continued his postgraduate studies in political
science at Vanderbilt University. Michael has been a visiting professor
at Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health and in
the Georgetown University School of Nursing. He has held board positions
at Providence Hospital in Washington and the District of Columbia Hospital
Association.
Michael M. Hash
Acting Administrator
Health Care Financing Administration
US Department of Health and Human Services
200 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, DC
Irene M. Ibarra, JD
CEO, Alameda Alliance for Health
Irene Ibarra, JD serves as the Chief Executive Office of the
Alameda Alliance for Health (the "Alliance”). The Alliance is a local,
not-for-profit health plan that provides comprehensive health care services
to families and individuals who receive MediCal benefits and to children
in the Healthy Families Program. Primary, specialty and hospital services
are provided through a network of public and private providers, including
over 300 primary care physicians, 700 specialty care providers, the major
hospitals in Alameda County, the Alameda County Medical Center and sixteen
community clinics.
Ms. Ibarra joined the Alliance in July, 1996 as Chief Operating Officer
and was appointed Chief Executive Office in January, 1998. Ms. Ibarra
relocated to the bay area from Seattle, Washington where she practiced
corporate and business law at a private law firm. Ms. Ibarra served in
Colorado Governor Roy Romer's cabinet for over four years as Executive
Director of the state department of health and human services. In this
capacity she was responsible for statewide health and human services programs,
including Medicaid, managed care programs and long term care. She has
served in a broad range of health and human services management positions
on various policy commissions and private and public boards.
In addition to her Juris Doctor from the University of Washington, Ms.
Ibarra holds a Master of Public Administration and Master of Social Work
in Community Services and Social Planning from the University of Denver. She
also completed the Program for Senior Executives in State and Local Government
at Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Irene M. Ibarra, JD
CEO
Alameda Alliance for Health
1850 Fairway Drive
San Leandro, CA 94577
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