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WellCare Health Plans, Inc. Healthcare Ken Burdick 7,100 Tampa, Florida
KELLY MUNSON
SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT DIVISION PRESIDENT AND MEDICAID PRODUCT WELLCARE HEALTH PLANS, INC.
EXECUTING WINNING STRATEGIES IN HEALTHCARE A s an accomplished and influential senior executive with two decades of managed care experience, Kelly Munson focuses on providing health care to those who need it most.
As senior vice president at WellCare Health Plans, Inc., she has responsibility for operations and Medicaid product development for about four million members, as well as oversight of its community advocacy programs. She is accountable for WellCare’s operations in Arkansas, California, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Texas.
profitability, enhancing productivity, reducing costs, and developing innovative product strategies.
connect community resources and help members navigate the social support network.
WellCare focuses exclusively on providing government-sponsored managed care services, primarily through Medicaid, Medicare Advantage, and Medicare Prescription Drug Plans, to families, children, seniors, and people with complex medical needs. It contracts with about 374,000 health care providers, helping its members gain access to the right care in the appropriate setting through coordinated care teams and community partnerships.
Her work focuses on people who really need help and whose challenges in life go beyond health care. Among them are, low-income, elderly, disabled, and individuals with complex medical issues.
After joining WellCare a decade ago, Munson has held positions of increasing responsibility including areas of operations and regulatory compliance for WellCare’s Ohio health plan. Four years ago, she was named chief operating officer of WellCare Munson’s colleagues say she of Kentucky and a year later she Over the years, Munson has embodies the company’s goal for was promoted to state president of demonstrated an ability to build long- helping people live healthier lives. Kentucky. Before assuming her current term mutually beneficial relationships Munson works to identify local position, she served as the region with customers, organizational solutions to fill gaps to help improve president for WellCare's operations partners, and government entities. health outcomes while simultaneously in Arkansas, California, Kentucky, She has an impressive history in lowering the cost of health care. She Mississippi, and Tennessee. PDJ developing and executing winning is exceptionally passionate about strategies for increasing revenue and WellCare’s advocacy programs, which 196
PROFILES IN DIVERSITY JOURNAL • Summer 2016