Dr. Michael Cropp, president and CEO of Independent Health, was elected board chairman of a national industry group of health insurance companies for a two-year term.
Alliance of Community Health Plans (ACHP) is a national leadership organization of 22 community-based and regional health plans and provider organizations, providing health care to 16 million Americans. ACHP focuses on innovations in affordability and quality of care, including patient care coordination, patient-centered medical homes, accountable health care delivery and use of information technology.
Independent Health has been the highest-ranked health insurance plan in the New York/New Jersey region for the past three years.
Dr. Cropp is a board-certified family physician, and the founding chairman of the P2 Collaborative of WNY, as well as the founding chairman of Western New York Clinical Information Exchange, (HealtheLink), a consortium of community stakeholders working to provide electronic access to health information.
Dr. Cropp joined Independent Health in 1996 and has served as president and CEO since 2004. With 375,000 members, Independent Health is the second largest health insurer in the eight-county region.
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