The HHS’s Final Rule on Health Exchanges and Essential Health Benefits LIVE Webcast

Kelly Brantley provides strategic analysis to help clients assess and respond to health insurance marketplace reforms, including the Affordable Care Act. Her areas of expertise include health insurance exchanges, essential health benefits, actuarial value, Medicare, and insurance market regulation. Kelly also focuses on the impact of health reform on consumers.

Prior to joining Avalere, Kelly spent five years at the Health Assistance Partnership, a project of Families USA, where she worked closely with State Health Insurance Assistance Programs (SHIPs). Before Families USA, Kelly consulted for the ECRI Institute, where she analyzed online tools promoting quality health and healthcare.

Kelly holds a B.S. in Biology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as well as an M.P.H. in Health Promotion and a Graduate Certificate in Health Policy from the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services.

Jon M. Hager was appointed as the first Executive Director of the Silver State Health Insurance Exchange in January 2012 by unanimous vote of the Exchange Board in an open interview process.

Prior to 2012, Mr. Hager was the Chief Financial Officer of Nevada’s Public Employees’ Benefits Program and was responsible for the Program’s $476 million annual budget which served 72,000 state and local government employees, retirees and dependents.

Mr. Hager served as a pilot in the U.S. Navy for nine years. He earned his MBA from Texas A&M and a BS in Physics from the United States Naval Academy.

Victor has practiced law since 1986, primarily for healthcare clients, including ambulatory surgery centers, physician clinics, hospitals, radiation therapy centers, imaging providers, home health companies, hospice agencies, and independent physician associations. The scope of his practice includes compliance with federal and state statutes and regulations, litigation before administrative bodies and state and federal courts, medical peer review issues, drafting and commenting on legislation and regulations, testimony on healthcare laws, certificate-of-need applications and appeals, employment-related issues, managed care, contract preparation and negotiation, trademark and trade name disputes.