Steven S. Lazarus is President and Co-Founder of Boundary Information Group (BIG), a virtual consortium of health care information and technology consulting firms. His consulting engagements include electronic health records (EHR), health information exchange (HIE), Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), system strategic planning, operating rules implementation and compliance, revenue cycle improvement and workflow improvement, and HIPAA compliance. His clients include physician practices, hospitals, HIEs, insurance companies, vendors, government (Federal, State and local) and national associations. In 2004, he co-founded Health IT Certification, LLC. He is a faculty member and Vice-Chair of the Board of Examiners. He has been accepted by the Courts as an expert HIPAA witness.

Denesecia Green, is the Deputy Director of the National Standards Group (NSG) within the Office of Enterprise Information, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Mrs. Green's 17 years of health care experience and strong commitment to public health programs span over a wide variety of HHS and CMS programs and policy. CMS program experience includes Medicare, Medicare Advantage, Medicaid, Program Integrity, Quality, Marketplace, Population Health, Health IT, and national standards for Administrative Simplification. In her current role, Mrs. Green adopts HIPAA and ACA standards that enable health information to be exchanged electronically to achieve greater uniformity, efficiency, and cost savings across the healthcare industry.

Gwendolyn Lohse is the Deputy Director of CAQH and the Managing Director of CAQH's Committee on Operating Rules for Information Exchange (CORE). Prior to joining CAQH, Ms. Lohse was in management roles at Johns Hopkins and PricewaterhouseCoopers, where she served both domestic and international healthcare clients.

Alden J. Bianchi, is Practice Group Leader of the Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Practice at Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. Resident in the firm's Boston office Mr. Bianchi represented the Romney administration in connection with the historic 2006 Massachusetts health care reform act, and he testified before the Senate Finance Committee on the subject of health care reform as part of the development of the Affordable Care Act. More recently, he testified on behalf of the ERISA Industry Committee (ERIC) before the Treasury Department/IRS at its April 23, 2013 hearing on the employer shared responsibility proposed regulations. Mr. Bianchi is the author of more than a half dozen books and more than 100 articles on various benefits-related topics. His most recent work, the Bloomberg/BNA Health Care Reform Advisor, is a comprehensive treatment of the impact of the Affordable Care Act on employers and employer-sponsored group health plans.

Ross Lippincott, Vice President of UnitedHealth Group's Regulatory Implementation Office, RIO, serves as business owner for enterprise-wide regulatory programs including 5010, lCD-10, Administrative Simplification, Health Plan Identifier (HPID), Medicare Advantage Explanation of Benefits Transformation, and CMS Reopenings. Ross also manages Benefit Operations Regulatory Intake and Adherence.

In his 13 years with UnitedHealth Group, Ross has held a variety of leadership roles supporting hospital and physician operations including provider relations, network integrations, call centers and network data management. Prior to joining UnitedHealth Group Ross was a consultant with Accenture's Healthcare and Government practice for 13 years.

Robert Tennant is the Director, Health Information Technology Policy, for the Washington, DC-based Government Affairs Department of the Medical Group Management Association. As the leading association for medical practice administrators and executives since 1926, MGMA helps improve members' practices through exclusive member benefits, education, resources, news, information, advocacy, and networking opportunities, and produces some of the most credible and robust medical practice economic data and data solutions in the industry.

Mr. Tennant focuses on federal legislative and regulatory HIT issues for MGMA including HIPAA, electronic health records, the Medicare & Medicaid Meaningful Use EHR Incentive Program, electronic prescribing, ICD-10, and other HIT matters.

Steven S. Lazarus is President and Co-Founder of Boundary Information Group (BIG), a virtual consortium of health care information and technology consulting firms. His consulting engagements include electronic health records (EHR), health information exchange (HIE), Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), system strategic planning, operating rules implementation and compliance, revenue cycle improvement and workflow improvement, and HIPAA compliance. His clients include physician practices, hospitals, HIEs, insurance companies, vendors, government (Federal, State and local) and national associations. In 2004, he co-founded Health IT Certification, LLC. He is a faculty member and Vice-Chair of the Board of Examiners. He has been accepted by the Courts as an expert HIPAA witness.