How Medicare Advantage plans support our seniors

Chief Medicare Officer, UPMC Health Plan

Adjunct Professor, University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health

Angela L. Perri leads the Health Plan’s Medicare Products division, which includes the Medicare Advantage and Special Needs Plans (SNP) known as UPMC for Life. She provides strategic direction for the Medicare-SNP products focused on serving all seniors, persons with disabilities, and those who are dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid.

Angela has nearly 25 years of experience in managed health care and managed behavioral health care. Prior to joining UPMC Health Plan, she served in executive leadership roles for several Fortune 100 organizations including UnitedHealth Group (Optum), Centene Corporation, and Amerigroup (an Anthem Company).

She is recognized as an expert on population health program designs such as models of care for Persons with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD), Foster Care (children), Managed Long Term Services and Supports (LTSS) and integrated behavioral health, digital and technology solutions supporting strategies for value-based care and other innovations. She is passionately committed to serving the underserved in health care and education.

President and CEO, Alliance of Community Health Plans

Ceci Connolly is a nationally recognized thought leader, author, and chief executive officer of the Alliance of Community Health Plans (ACHP). But if you refer to her as a former ink-stained wretch, she won’t object. Ceci spent 25 years in the news business, covering politics and health care, including 13 years at the Washington Post. She is co-author of Landmark: America's New Health Care Law and What It Means for Us All. Between her journalism career and ACHP, she worked at McKinsey and PwC, concluding that fee-for-service medicine is what ails us. Her passion now is to put a stake in it. She is a founding member of Women of Impact, serves on the Board of the Pharmacy Quality Alliance, and is a previous Board member of Whitman-Walker Health. She hosts the “Healthy Dialogue” podcast and is a guest host for “Her Story.” Ceci was the first nonphysician to receive the Mayo Clinic Plummer Society Award for promoting deeper understanding of science and medicine. She remains an adrenaline junkie and stickler for good grammar.