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Volunteer Efforts

Boards & Service

One of the ways in which the New Jersey Association of Health Plans and its member companies contribute to New Jersey’s policymakers is through volunteer efforts on State Boards, Commissions and Authorities with representatives of other stakeholder groups and individuals. Participation on these entities is sometimes by appointment, sometimes by election, and is without pay. NJAHP staff and representatives of member companies volunteer their time and expertise for, among other entities, the following:

Mandated Health Benefits Advisory Commission
  • Paul Marden, Chief Executive Officer, United Healthcare, New Jersey
  • Wardell Sanders, President, NJAHP
New Jersey Individual Health Coverage Program Board
  • Lilton Talilaferro, AmeriHealth
  • Thomas Pownall, Aetna
  • Sandi Kelly, Horizon
  • Robert Morrow, UnitedHealthcare
New Jersey Health Information Technology Commission
  • Douglas Blackwell, Horizon
New Jersey Small Employer Health Benefits Program Board
  • Thomas Pownall, Aetna
  • Lilton Talilaferro, AmeriHealth
  • Natalie Bernardi, Cigna
  • Taylor Kopelan, Horizon
  • Randi Imbriaco, Oscar
  • Robert Benkert, United
Executive Branch

The health plan community also contributes to a number of groups formed by executive branch agencies including:

NJDHSS Quality Improvement Advisory Committee

  • Sarah Lynn Geiger, NJAHP
Department of Health Payment Strategies Work Group for Infant Mortality
  • Wardell Sanders, NJAHP, Chair of Committee
NJ Department of Health Newborn Screening Advisory Committee
  • Dr. Cheryl Reid, Aetna Better Health of New Jersey