Alex Nuñez

Having started his career over 25 years ago, Alex has spent the last 20 in health care. Beginning as an accountant with a large, regional health insurance company, he was able to gain the understanding of the financial mechanics of the insurance industry. Since then, Alex has spent time in both the public and private sectors, including a 10 year tenure with Banner Health, one of the largest and most successful health care systems in the nation. It is with Banner where he had the chance to see multiple aspects of health care, including self-insured and self-administered medical, pharmacy and dental health insurance provision for all Banner Health employees and their dependents; administration of a Physician Hospital Organization (PHO) with fully delegated financial risk for members enrolled with major insurers; and as CFO for MediSun, an independent Medicare Advantage plan in the Phoenix metropolitan area.

This time as a divisional CFO with Banner allowed Alex to see many aspects of health care. In addition to leading the finance function for these areas, his position allowed, and required, him to engage in nearly all aspects of health care, including compliance (including ERISA, Department of Insurance, and CMS), benefit design and modeling, and operations. Importantly, it is at Banner Health that Alex had the opportunity engage in the strategic and needed move from care volume to value care. This is where his passion for moving health care to the new, sustainable model of outcomes-based fee for value took hold.

Finally, Alex’s most recent positions included AZ Market CFO Magellan Health – Magellan operated the behavioral health Medicaid contract with the State of Arizona for all eligible recipients in the Phoenix metropolitan area (over 600K eligible individuals) – and as CFO for Arizona Care Network (ACN) – ACN is a successful large ACO that is co-owned by two large health systems.