Thomas G. Goddard, PhD, JD, Chief Executive Officer
Thomas G. Goddard, PhD, JD, CEO of Integral Healthcare Solutions, has over 25 years of experience in law, health and insurance policy research, and management consulting. His consulting practice focuses on providing management consulting and research services to public and private organizations regarding health network management and quality improvement, healthcare and insurance compliance, litigation support, healthcare policy analysis, managed care program evaluation, organizational development, and provider contracting. Before going into health care consulting, Dr. Goddard was Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel of URAC. While at URAC and more recently as a consultant to URAC, he served on accreditation review teams of more than 175 HMOs, PPOs, and health Web sites. In addition, Dr. Goddard served as the Project Manager in URAC's successful effort to obtain deemed status as an accreditation organization (AO) from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
Dr. Goddard also has:
- led a research project for the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission examining quality standards enforced by regulators, accreditors, and purchasers on HMOs, PPOs, and health care providers;
- conducted the nation’s most comprehensive survey of state PPO laws and regulations;
- analyzed the impact of state and federal privacy protections on the use by managed care organizations of patient medical records for quality management purposes;
- lectured and written extensively on managed care legal and compliance issues; and
- conducted research on employee attitudes within the operations staff of a large regional HMO.
Dr. Goddard also has served as Vice President and General Counsel of NYLCare Health Plans of the Mid-Atlantic; Counsel for Government and Media Relations for the National Association of Insurance Commissioners; President and CEO of the Goddard Public Affairs Corporation; Director of the Alliance for Consumer Rights; State Legislative Counsel for the Association of Trial Lawyers of America; Special Assistant to then-Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt; and a trial attorney in private practice.
Dr. Goddard received his B.A. in political science, his law degree from the University of Arizona, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in industrial-organizational psychology from George Mason University. Dr. Goddard has authored a number of articles and book chapters on a wide range of health and insurance topics.
You can contact Dr. Goddard at tgoddard@integralhs.com or (703) 879-8357.