SPECIAL DATE & LOCATION FOR THIS MEETING ONLY!

Date:  July 20th

Registration:  11:00

Lunch/Program:  11:30

Location:
Cancer Treatment Centers of America®
10109 E. 79^th St., Tulsa, OK 74133

CE:  1 hour  "Value Based Cancer Care", Dr. Joe Nicholson

Cost:  Free (recommended $10 donation to Ally's House)
TAHU's charity is Ally's House which we support at every opportunity.  To learn how they help Oklahoma families of children with cancer, please visit their website at Ally's House.  TAHU is 501c6 and Ally's House is 501c3.

Parking Directions:

TAHU Lunch attendees can enter from 81^st street onto E. 79^th St. (west of HWY 169 directly across from TCC), which is the main drive down to facility. 

There are 2 parking lots on either side of the main entrance that you can use.  Enter in the main entrance, there will be signs directing you where to go. 

Dr. Nicholson is the SVP and National Medical Director of Payor and Employer Relations, for Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA).  In that role he supports the business development team as well as network/contracting team for both large national contracts as well as supporting the regional team with more local efforts.  Dr. Nicholson functions as the lead negotiator in a number of these efforts, and operates in a support function as the senior medical director in other negotiations.  Dr. Nicholson also leads CTCA international contracting efforts.  He also leads the CTCA Value Proposition team in exploring new ways to define CTCA's unique model of care in a way that highlights our value to payors and employers.

Dr. Nicholson was commissioned as a US Army officer, and served as Detachment Commander for the 203rd Combat Engineers (serving in both Panama and Honduras), then completed medical school at OSU.  While in the military he served as Chief of Emergency Medicine at Ft Leonard Wood.  Residency was completed in Family Medicine at OU in Tulsa in 1995 and in 2002 Dr. Nicholson joined BCBSOK and served first as Medical Director, and later as Chief Medical Officer until coming to CTCA in 2010.  At Blue Cross he managed all clinical elements to include: pharmacy, medical policy, utilization management, case management, transplants, fraud unit, medical informatics, appeals, denials and more.  For the parent company at HCSC (Health Care Service Company - BCBS of TX, IL, OK, NM, MT) served as the clinical executive sponsor for ICD-10 implementation, AHIP ICD-10 Workgroup and was the clinical lead for many other strategic functions to include: Enterprise Pharmacy Strategy, Health Information Exchange Advisory Panel, Thomas-Love litigation Advisory Team, BlueHealth Initiative (BCBS Association Data) and others.  He was also appointed as the HCSC "Wellness Blogger" for the enterprise.

Dr. Nicholson is a member of Leadership Tulsa and Leadership Oklahoma, and has served on various boards such as the Oklahoma Health Information Exchange Trust (a Gubernatorial Appointment), Leadership Oklahoma and the YMCA.