Maureen M. Corcoran
Maureen Corcoran joined Vorys Health Care Advisors LLC (VHCA) in 2011 as its President. VHCA helps health care providers, business decision makers, professional associations and other stakeholders deal with the challenges of a complex, rapidly changing state and federal health care environment.
VHCA has expertise in health care, services for children, behavioral health care, developmental disabilities, aging and community-based services, and numerous areas of Medicaid financing.
Expertise
- Health care, services for children, behavioral health care, developmental disabilities, aging and community-based services
- Managed care, health home and other care coordination strategies. Models of accountable care organizations
- Medicaid policy, reimbursement and associated provider tax issues
- Home health, hospice and palliative care providers, FQHCs, hospitals and health care operations, and long-term care facilities and ICF-MRs
- EPSDT and issues associated with services to and the financing of children’s health care
- State and federal health care policy, with emphasis on transformational reform strategies
- System change and organizational behavior in a dynamic health care policy environment
- Health information technology, quality measurement and provider responsibilities associated with the use of technology
Prior to joining Vorys Health Care Advisors, Maureen Corcoran directed all policy and program initiatives for the state of Ohio’s Medicaid program. As deputy director of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, Maureen was responsible for case management and managed care services, nursing homes and other institutional services, home and community-based waivers, and all reimbursement-related activities. She also had supervisory responsibility for all benefit design, eligibility and health plan policies.
Ms. Corcoran’s work involved regular interaction with members of the Ohio General Assembly, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, other state agencies with services in this area, and numerous stakeholder organizations within Ohio and beyond its borders. She participated actively in a number of interagency initiatives, with a special interest in children and individuals with disabilities.
Ms. Corcoran provided leadership and assistance with BEACON (Best Evidence for Advancing Childhealth in Ohio Now), a nationally recognized public-private partnership designed to transform agency practices and improve the quality of child health services. Recognized for her passion and problem-solving abilities, Ms. Corcoran served as the state’s Interim Medicaid Director in 2010.
Prior to joining the Department of Job and Family Services in the Spring of 2008, Ms. Corcoran was the president of governmental and legislative affairs for the Ohio Provider Resource Association. Her responsibilities included strategic communication and governmental relations with emphasis on issues relevant to providers of services for individuals with developmental disabilities.
For a period of 14 years beginning in 1984, Ms. Corcoran held several state government positions.
Initially, she headed the Office of Budget and Cost Containment Policy in the Department of Health. Later, as executive assistant to Governor Richard Celeste, she was the state’s chief human services policy advisor. Maureen also served as assistant director of the Ohio Department of Mental Health, at the pleasure of Governor George V. Voinovich, where she was instrumental in Ohio’s nationally recognized mental health systems reforms.
During her years of public service, and as an advocate for improved services for individuals with a variety of disabilities, Ms. Corcoran provided active leadership in the development and execution of 14 state biennial budgets.
Ms. Corcoran holds an MBA from Case Western University, with a concentration in finance and health care; and a Masters Degree in Nursing from Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve, where she also served as a clinical faculty member. She worked as an assistant director of nursing at University Hospitals of Cleveland and nursing supervisor at Mt. Sinai Hospital. She holds her undergraduate degree from the University of Rochester.
News
- Corcoran Quoted in Cincinnati Enquirer Story on Changes to Ohio’s Medicaid Program
- Corcoran Quoted in Cincinnati Enquirer Story Regarding Ohio’s Aging Population
- Corcoran Quoted in Columbus Dispatch Story Regarding Ohio’s Long-Term Care Programs
- Vorys Health Care Advisors Launches VorysHCAdvisors.com
- Vorys Health Care Advisors Launched