CAQH members also have picked Dr. Michael Stocker, president of WellChoice Inc., New York, to be chief financial officer of CAQH and chairman-elect; Charles Berg, president of Oxford Health Plans Inc., Trumbull, Conn., to be secretary; and Jay Gellert, president of HealthNet Inc., Woodland Hills, Calif., to be chairman of the CAQH administrative simplification committee.
CAQH is a nonprofit group that represents large U.S. managed care organizations. The group, founded in 1999, tries to find free-market strategies for resolving complaints by patients and physicians about the U.S. health finance system.