Steven E. Wojcik
Vice President, Public Policy
Steven Wojcik is Vice President of Public Policy for the National Business Group on Health. He has over 21 years of experience in health policy development, analysis and research; government relations; and public affairs. At the Business Group, he is responsible for developing and coordinating the Business Group's position and strategy on federal issues impacting health benefits for large employers, providing information and analysis on the best practices and concerns of large employers to Capitol Hill and the Administration, and keeping members informed of policy developments in Washington that may impact employer-sponsored health benefits and programs.
Mr. Wojcik currently serves as the Business Group's representative on the Beneficiary Advisory Panel for the Medicare Model Guidelines Committee that Congress has charged with making recommendations for formularies for the Medicare prescription drug benefit. He is also the Business Group's representative on the Ambulatory Care Quality Alliance (AQA), a collaborative national effort to develop and implement consensus measures on health care quality for physician services and in outpatient settings. He serves on the AQA's Cost of Care Workgroup and on the joint AQA - Hospital Quality Alliance Efficiency/Episodes of Care Workgroup. He is also the Business Group's voting member of the National Quality Forum, a national multi-stakeholder consensus body for health care quality measures. Mr. Wojcik also serves on the policy and/or steering committees of the Employers Coalition on Medicare, the HSA Working Group, and other policy coalitions in Washington, DC.
Previously, Mr. Wojcik was Manager of Government Relations for PacifiCare Health Systems and Senior Health Policy Analyst for WellPoint Health Networks Inc., two large national health plans based in California. He was responsible for federal policy development and strategy at PacifiCare, focusing largely on Medicare and managed care legislative and regulatory issues. He also focused on Medicare issues at WellPoint and was also responsible for state health policy development in California and other states.
Prior to relocating to California, Mr. Wojcik served as a Consultant to the Center for Health Policy Studies in Maryland and as a Policy Analyst at Project HOPE's, Center for Health Affairs where he conducted research, policy analysis, and program evaluation for various federal agencies, state governments, and private clients. He also served as a consultant to the Polish Ministry of Health between 1988 and 1992, funded in part by USAID, where he advised on health care financing reform and oversaw part of a successful World Bank loan application for the health sector. He holds an M.A. in Public Policy from the University of Chicago and a B.S. in International Relations from Georgetown University.
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