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Cyndy Nayer

Cyndy Nayer, M.A.

President, CEO and Co-founder

Center for Health Value Innovation

Cyndy Nayer, M.A., is a Founder of the Center for Health Value Innovation and serves as its President and Chief Executive Officer.  Under her direction, CHVI, a national, non-profit organization, has grown into the nation’s premier organization dedicated to sharing the evidence of improved health and economic outcomes through value-based designs.  Nayer is a nationally recognized thought leader on value-based benefit design and continues to provide education, insight and guidance to CHVI’s growing membership as well as to government leaders, national media, and other industry stakeholders.  She has been a vital part of the emergence, adoption and change in the value-based designs and, specifically responsible for, their link to outcomes-based contracting™ and consumer-directed health.  She is the author of the groundbreaking manuscript, Outcomes-Based ContractingTM:  The Value-Based Approach for Optimal Accountability (www.vbhealth.org/evidence-2/outcomes-based-contractingtm).  Nayer continues to champion and develop these concepts through ongoing research initiatives with CHVI members and partners and through keynote presentations at national conferences and business coalition events.  A published authority on health quality improvement with value-based designs, Ms. Nayer has authored numerous industry papers, articles and books including co-authoring CHVI’s first book, “Leveraging Health: Improve Health Status and Bend the Trend on Financial Outcomes with Value-Based Designs,” in 2009 and personally authoring a consumer handbook for value-based health decisions in 2006, “101 LifeTips for Personal Health Management” in which she defines the roadmap for becoming the CEO of one’s health-wealth portfolio,  a copyrighted concept.

She is the former Chair of the Missouri Governor’s Council on Health and Fitness where she convened and advised the establishment of the Office of Women’s Health for the State.  Ms. Nayer also received the CEO Leadership Award for Consumer-Directed Health in 2008.

As the voice of CHVI and a health improvement expert, Nayer forged multiple strategic alliances for the Center, aligning its resources to share the business and academic evidence of improved health status and reduced health cost trend when consumers have access to affordable prevention, risk management, and chronic care.  Committed to making value-based designs and outcomes-based contracting an integral component of health system transformation, Nayer is leading CHVI in its support of major efforts in both the public and private sectors.

A graduate of Washington University, Nayer also holds a graduate degree in Gerontology with a special focus on Healthy Aging and is a frequent speaker and lecturer on a variety of healthcare issues.

Nayer CDHC 2008 Superstar for CEO Leadership