Chip Howard (Humana) Chip Howard joined Humana Inc. as Vice President, Payment Innovation in the Provider Development Center of Excellence in September 2014. He is responsible for advancing Humana’s Accountable Care Continuum, expanding its Provider Reward Programs and innovative payment models and programs that enable providers to become successful population health managers.
Chip has close to 20 years of healthcare and actuarial experience. Prior to joining Humana, he served as Director of Accountable Care Organizations for Wellpoint, Inc. located in Atlanta, GA. At WellPoint, Chip led an enterprise team to support multiple Blue Cross Blue Shield plans in the negotiation, implementation and maintenance of large scale, multiple lines of business ACO contracts with provider partners.
Prior to his role at WellPoint, Chip was the Director of Value-based Program Reimbursement with Florida Blue where he worked on all facets of development and implementation of commercial Accountable Care and Patient-Centered Medical Home programs. While at Florida Blue, he also served as a Senior Manager in the Network and Competitive Analytics area where he was responsible for the design of financial reimbursement models for value-based provider payment programs.
Chip has also served in a variety of contracting and analytics management roles with WellPoint and Kaiser Permanente. In addition, Chip’s experience at the Blues, Coventry Health Care, Cigna and William M. Mercer, Inc. includes various pricing, reserving and contracting analytics roles.
Chip has a bachelor’s degree in actuarial science from Georgia State University in Atlanta.
Chip serve as a member of the Primary Care Payment Model workgroup of the HCPLAN, which contributes to establishing the adoption of effective alternative payment models in the payment innovations field.
Chip lives in Louisville, Kentucky. In his free time, he enjoys traveling, golf, tennis and music.