Mike Thompson leads the National Alliance, a membership organization of 45 coalitions representing private and public sector, nonprofit, and Taft-Hartley organizations, and more than 45 million Americans, spending over $300 billion annually on healthcare. He will share the leading strategies and priorities that employers are considering for the future in the areas of delivery and payment reform, total person health, and health policy. Key topics to be discussed:
Attributes for advanced primary care
Demand for transparency and accountability
Managing high-amount claimants
Structural reform for behavioral health
Lasting impact of COVID-19 and health equity
Michael Thompson
President & CEO
Michael Thompson is the president and CEO of the National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions, the only nonprofit, purchaser-led organization with a national and regional structure dedicated to driving health and healthcare value across the country.
Prior to joining the National Alliance, Mike was a Principal at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) for 20 years. He is a nationally recognized thought leader for business health strategies and health system reform. Mike has worked with major employers and other stakeholders on sustainable cost reduction, integrated health, wellness and consumerism, retiree health, private health exchanges, and health reform. Known for developing and promoting collaborative cross-sector health industry initiatives, he participated on the steering board of the World Economic Forum’s “Working toward Wellness” initiative and co-founded the Private Exchange Evaluation Collaborative. Prior to PwC, Mike served as an executive with diverse roles with Prudential Healthcare for over 17 years.
Mike is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries, serving on the Health Practice Council, and chairs the Medicare Sub-Committee of the American Academy of Actuaries. He is also widely recognized as a leading national advocate for mental health and wellbeing and was past president of the New York City chapter of the National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI) and an active member of the board of the Northeast Business Group on Health for 11 years.
