Members

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.

Erin P. Fraher, Ph.D., M.P.P., Immediate Past COGME Chair

Erin P. Fraher, Ph.D., M.P.P. is an Associate Professor (with tenure) in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Medicine. Dr. Fraher directs the HRSA-funded Carolina Health Workforce Research Center. The Center’s mission is to provide the evidence needed to redesign health workforce training, deployment, and regulation in a rapidly changing health care system. Dr. Fraher is internationally recognized for her efforts to improve workforce projection methodologies and investigate ways that states, and the federal government, can better use graduate medical education funding to drive workforce outcomes, foster transparency, and increase accountability. Her recent work focuses on understanding the workforce implications of new care delivery and payment models. Dr. Fraher’s research is interprofessional, spanning medicine, nursing, social work, pharmacy, dentistry, mental health, allied health, and the direct care workforce. While Dr. Fraher has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals, her ability to produce policy briefs, fact sheets, and interactive data visualizations has enabled her work to have broad impact. She has a BA in Economics/Spanish from Wellesley College, a Master of Public Policy (M.P.P.) from the University of California at Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in Health Policy and Management from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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

Nominations for membership

Our members includes individuals who represent legislatively mandated categories and serve four-year terms.

We accept nominations on a rolling basis, although categories for appointment will differ by year. We will keep nomination information on file for consideration to fill any vacancies. You can find information about the nomination process for COGME membership on the COGME Federal Registrar Notice.

Are you eligible?

We have 18 voting members:

1. Assistant Secretary for Health, HHS, or designee
2. Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services or designee
3. Administrator of HRSA or designee
4. Chief Medical Director of the Department of Veterans Affairs or designee
5. Six members appointed by the HHS Secretary to include representatives of practicing primary care physicians, national and specialty physician organizations, international medical graduates, and medical student and house staff associations
6. Four members appointed by the HHS Secretary to include representatives of schools of medicine and osteopathic medicine, and public and private teaching hospitals
7. Four members appointed by the HHS Secretary to include representatives of health insurers, business*, and labor*

The HHS Secretary, in appointing the 14 non-federal members, will ensure a fair balance of members from urban and rural educational settings. Members will be appointed based on their competence, interest, and knowledge. Non-federal members are appointed as Special Government Employees (SGEs).

Non-federal members of the Advisory Council appointed under 5, 6, and 7 above are appointed for a term of four years.

We elect one of our members as chair. Nine members is a quorum, but a lesser number may hold hearings. Any vacancy does not affect our power to function.

 *Please note: Labor means research and policy expertise in physician workforce issues (for example, supply, demand, distribution, training). Business means expertise in health care delivery systems (for example, health care operations) or medical entrepreneurship.