COGME leadership
Dr. Peter Hollmann, M.D., Chair
Dr. Hollmann is a physician specializing in geriatric primary care and has served as the Associate Chief Medical Officer for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island. His experience covers multiple insurance products, including a commercial Preferred Provider Organization, a Medicaid plan, and a Medicare product. His work has also focused on quality improvement, program and practice transformation, and evaluation. In addition, he has in-depth experience with data-driven quality improvement and clinical performance measurement development at the local and national level. Dr. Hollmann is the Chief Medical Officer for Brown Medicine. He co-chairs the Rhode Island multi-payer Patient-Centered Medical Home Collaborative Data and Evaluation Committee; is a member of the Resource-Based Relative Value Scale Update Committee; and is a past Chair of the Current Procedural Terminology Editorial Panel. His clinical and administrative experiences span several levels of geriatric clinical care. With his senior executive experience and expertise in health insurance products, practice transformation, and data-driven performance evaluation, Dr. Hollmann will inform the Council’s work as a healthcare business representative.
Appointed members
The legislation dictates that the Council consist of 18 members.
The Secretary of HHS appoints 14 of these members. This includes representatives of:
- Practicing primary care physicians
- National and specialty physician organizations
- International medical graduates
- Medical student and house staff associations
- Schools of medicine and schools of osteopathic medicine
- Public and private teaching hospitals
- Health insurers
- Business
- Labor
Federal representatives
The authorizing legislation dictates that the Council include the following four federal representatives or their designees:
- Assistant Secretary for Health, HHS
- Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, HHS
- Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, HHS
- Chief Medical Director of the Department of Veterans Affairs