Dr. Rich Feifer is president of Genesis Physician Services and Chief Medical Officer of the LTC ACO, the only national ACO focused on long-term care facility patients. Genesis HealthCare is the nation's largest skilled nursing and long-term care provider, operating approximately 400 facilities in 30 states.  Dr. Feifer leads a team of over 450 clinicians in addition to the medical directors at every Genesis skilled nursing facility. More broadly across Genesis, he leads all aspects of pharmacy management.  His primary focus is the active transition from volume-based fee-for-service to value-based care and reimbursement.  Prior to joining Genesis, Dr. Feifer served as Aetna’s chief medical officer of National Accounts. He led Clinical Consulting, Strategy, and Analysis, which helped our nation’s largest employers improve the health and productivity of their employees and dependents.  Before Aetna, Dr. Feifer served as vice president of Clinical Program Innovation and Evaluation at Medco, where he was responsible for the organization’s portfolio of care enhancement programs.  A graduate of Brown University and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Dr. Feifer is a board-certified internist with experience in population health, primary care, geriatrics, and urgent care medicine. He received his MPH in Health Services Management from Columbia University, and is currently an Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of Connecticut.

Ena has over 25 years of experience in managed care operations, payment policy, medical economics, contracting, marketing, business development, state and federal regulatory affairs, state and federal licensure and contracting, and compliance.  Ena’s leadership experience includes business turn-around and transformation, federal and state regulatory relationship management, large scale project management, business integration and start-up implementations.
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Ena currently serves as the Chief of LTC Partnership Development and Operations for LTC ACO and in that role develops relationships with LTC facilities necessary to support the goals of the ACO. She manages all aspects of operations necessary to support the effectiveness of those LTC providers, including integration with LTC participating providers and the ACO.

Prior to this, Ena led Magellan Complete Care of Florida, Florida’s Medicaid Serious Mental Illness Special Needs Plan.  Prior to her role at Magellan, Ena led Alegis Care, a Cigna company, in its expansion of home-based chronic care management, Medicaid and Medicare managed care in-home patient assessments and fee-for-service “house call” lines of business. Also at Cigna, Ena led federal and state readiness activities for the Medicare Medicaid Financial Alignment Demonstration in the Illinois Cigna-HealthSpring market.  Ena is a tireless advocate and experienced leader of Special Needs Plans at the federal and state levels, at one time leading HealthSpring’s Medicare Advantage Institutional Special Needs Plan.

A legacy Bravo Health executive, Ena served in various leadership roles, finally as the Chief Compliance Officer before the HealthSpring acquisition of Bravo Health. Other roles included Vice President of Marketing and a Director on the Business Development team, engaged in government relations and market development.  Prior managed care experience also includes consulting at the Center for Health Policy Studies and various roles at the Johns Hopkins Health Plan, which was subsequently acquired by Prudential Health Care.

Outside of her professional work, Ena has been an active Board Member to a number of arts and healthcare non-profit organizations.  She is a proud graduate of the Pennsylvania State University, receiving a degree in Health Policy and Administration.

In her role, Ms. Krzyzewski worked to develop the initial concept for LTC ACO and obtained CMS approval of the initial and renewal applications.  She works closely with Mr. Feuerman to evaluate and design strategic initiatives to support the long term growth and success of LTC ACO.  Prior to this role, she consulted with healthcare organizations on various strategic projects, including a value-based managed care solution for oncology, due diligence coordination, RFP response development, market entry strategy, and business plan development. Prior to consulting, she served as the SVP, Corporate Planning and Development for Value Options, a managed care behavioral health company, where she led the organization’s dual eligible and Medicaid Aged, Blind and Disabled strategy.  Prior to that, she served as SVP, Business Development for HealthSpring, A Cigna Company, and Bravo Health/Elder Health where she was responsible for new market development and service area expansions, including state licensure and CMS approval; development of I-SNP, D-SNP, and Medicaid proposals (TX STAR+PLUS); and strategic planning and market/competitive research.  Ms. Krzyzewski earned a Masters in Business Administration degree from Harvard University Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Cornell University.

Janine Valdez has over 23 years of experience in a variety of positions within long-term care. During her tenure with Sun Healthcare, she worked in a variety of roles in accounting and financial planning before joining the Sun Compliance Department. With Sun, she assisted with the negotiation and implementation of the company’s Corporate Integrity Agreement (CIA) with the United States Office of Inspector General.  After the successful closure of the CIA and the merger of Sun Healthcare with Genesis HealthCare, Janine was appointed as the Genesis Compliance Officer and the Compliance Officer of LTC ACO.  She has worked to ensure that the compliance program remains a vital component of the company’s overall management strategy.