Currently, Harlan Levine, MD, is the only benefits consultant to have experience on the buy and sell side of disease management on a national basis.
Harlan Levine, MD
Principal
Towers Perrin
Currently, he is the only benefits consultant to have experience on the buy and sell side of disease management on a national basis. Through his previous role at OptumHealth, he helped UnitedHealth Group become the only national health plan to receive DMPC certification for savings measurement validity, and one of just four to be honored by HIRC for overall program excellence in 2008-the only benefits consultant to have taken an organization through both processes successfully.
Dr. Levine is a graduate of Harvard College, where he earned a B.A. degree in biology, and of the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine. He is a member of the DMAA: The Care Continuum Alliance's (DMAA) board of directors and government affairs committee.
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