Irv Koehler, RN, MBA, CPHQ, CPC

Irv Koehler is a health care quality consultant for the Koehler Quality Group, LLC. In this position, he is an NCQA administrative surveyor and provides consulting services to organizations evaluating and preparing for NCQA Accreditation/ Certification projects, risk adjustment validation for managed care organizations, education on quality improvement practices and outcome measure development and tracking.  

Mr. Koehler is also a registered nurse with active licensure in Florida and Tennessee, and certification in quality and medical coding. Previously, he was a quality improvement professional at AmeriHealth Caritas and BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee.

Mr. Koehler has an MBA from the Florida Institute of Technology, a BS in Nursing from Florida Southern College, a BA in Psychology and an ADN from Purdue University.

Clint Koenig, MD, MSPH, MA

Clint Koenig, MD, MA, MSPH is the Senior Medical Director at OhioHealthy, a new system-based health plan in Columbus, Ohio. He has served as State Medical Director in New Hampshire and Ohio. Other leadership roles include the Health Plan Regional Chief Medical Officer at Universal American, a government programs health management organization in Syracuse, New York, as well as, the Director for Utilization Management at Monroe Plan for Medical Care, a healthcare management organization in Rochester, New York. In addition, Clint held Chief Medical Officer roles in Federally Qualified Health Centers and integrated delivery systems.

He has been an NCQA surveyor for 10 years and surveys health plans, Patient Centered Medical Home, Special Needs Plans and Long Term Services and Supports organizations.

Dr. Koenig received his MD from Albany Medical College in Albany, New York. He completed his residency in Family Medicine, from the University of Missouri. He also completed a fellowship at the University of Missouri, where he received a master’s degree in Public Health and Journalism.

Veronica Locke, MSHA

Veronica Locke, MHSA is a process consultant with the Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC) in Dallas, Texas. Prior to joining HCSC, Veronica was a consultant for The Mihalik Group, providing healthcare-related consulting services.  Her areas of expertise include quality assessment and improvement; credentialing; delegation; disease management accreditation/certification; population health management; multicultural health care. 

Veronica is the former Senior Manager of Accreditation Policy for the National Committee for Quality Assurance. She was actively involved in the development and maintenance of the standards and guidelines of NCQA's Accreditation and Certification programs, specifically Health Plan, Disease Management and Multicultural Health Care Distinction programs. As a member of the Policy team, one of her major responsibilities was to serve as a content champion when providing policy clarifications and trainings internally and externally. 
She received her Bachelor of Science Degree in Public Health from the University of Maryland, College Park and her Master of Health Systems Administration Degree from Georgetown University in Washington, DC.

Joseph Stankaitis, MD, MPH 

Joseph A. Stankaitis, MD, MPH since 1997 has been the Chief Medical Officer of the Monroe Plan for Medical Care, an Individual Practice Association (founded in 1970) and healthcare management organization in Rochester, New York and the Chief Medical Officer of its safety-net health plan, YourCare Health Plan in Upstate and Western New York. He oversees all clinically-related activities for these organizations, including its Health and Recovery Plan (HARP) for the Seriously Mentally Ill. He is also the Principle Investigator for Monroe Plan’s SAMHSA Grant, “Addressing Buffalo’s Opioid Epidemic with Medication Assisted Treatment.”

He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, Fellow of the American Association for Physician Leadership and Clinical Associate Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. He is an active reviewer and past Chair of the Review Oversight Committee and current Chair of the Reconsideration Committee for the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). He is a member of the New York State Department of Health Medicaid Evidence-Based Benefits Review Advisory Committee. He is the President of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) Rochester Volunteer Leadership Board and has served as a member of the ADA’s National Professional Practice Committee (develops national practice guidelines for diabetes care).

Dr. Stankaitis received a bachelor’s degree in biology from Boston College, his MD from the University of Connecticut and completed his residency and chief residency in the Primary Care Program in Internal Medicine at the University of Rochester. As a Kellogg Foundation Fellow at Harvard University, he received a Master’s degree in Health Policy and Management.

Frank H. Stelling, M.Ed, MPH

Mr. Stelling is a Senior Consultant with The Mihalik Group. Prior to joining the Mihalik Group, he was Assistant Director, Accreditation Policy at NCQA for 14 years. Mr. Stelling oversaw the Policy Clarification Support System (PCS), a web-based tool for customers to ask questions of Policy Accreditation staff concerning all NCQA Accreditation and Certification programs. He also directed all education efforts out of the Policy Accreditation unit. In addition, Mr. Stelling was the lead on all federal and state deeming activities, including the Medicare Deeming program.

Mr. Stelling is also an NCQA surveyor and has been part of survey teams for the accreditation of Health Plans, Managed Behavioral Health Organizations. Disease Management Organizations and other organizations for over 17 years. Mr. Stelling has over 40 years of experience in health care with focus on Preventive Services, Disease Management and Quality Improvement.

Before joining NCQA, he held management positions with state and county health departments, hospitals, voluntary health organizations and a managed care organization. He holds a Master of Education from the University of South Carolina and a Master of Public Health from the University of California, Berkeley.