Our Team

Gregory S. Allen

Senior Advisor, Innovative Care and Financial Models

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Greg brings over 35 years of experience in health and behavioral health care, Greg provides healthcare consultation across a broad spectrum of program, policy, and payment support services.

As the Director of the Division of Program Development and Management for the NYS Department of Health, Greg was responsible for a broad range of Medicaid services planning, policy and operations including the development of new and innovative programs for the State’s over $70 billion dollar Medicaid program. Specifically, Greg managed policy, payment and data support for all NYS Medicaid’s inpatient, clinic, practitioner, transportation and pharmacy services as well as the Department’s program and payment policy for mental health, chemical dependence and developmental disabilities services.  

Greg and his team had leading roles in the nationally-recognized New York State Medicaid Redesign process. This work included the state-wide roll out of the health home care management program for high need, high cost populations and the planning and implementation of significant federal partnership activities including the $8 billion Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment (DSRIP) program. Through 25 carefully organized local provider partnerships, the DSRIP program exceeded its ambitious statewide goal by reducing avoidable hospitalizations across New York State by 26% over five years.  

With a deep commitment to the member served and beginning his career as a frontline counselor in the chemical dependence field, Greg has over 30 years of government operations and management experience. Working at both the State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services and most recently at the State Department of Health, Greg’s work has focused on the nexus between innovative program development and value based payment with a particular focus on incubating new member-centric programs and policy.

 

Areas of Expertise

  • Innovative care models

  • Medicaid Policy, Operations and Payment

  • Behavioral health

  • Value based health care & contracting

  • Healthcare Data Analytics

Education

  • BS Social Work, Buffalo State College

  • MS Social Work, Rockefeller College, State University of New York at Albany