"The Big Picture" Newsletter
October 2009 Issue
LOUISIANA EDITION
LOCAL SPOTLIGHT
Where We Are
CIGNA HealthCare
Two Riverway, Suite 1200
Houston, TX 77056
Telephone: 866.244.8081
Fax: 713.552.7821
Who to Contact
Travis Brashear
Vice President of Sales - South Texas
713.576.4321
Travis.Brashear@cigna.com
Jay Saad
Vice President of Sales, Small Segment - Southern
Region
972.582.7606
Jay.Saad@cigna.com
Experienced Local Leadership
David Toomey, President and General Manager,
CIGNA HealthCare South Region
David Toomey is president and general manager
of CIGNA HealthCare, South Region comprised of Texas,
Oklahoma and Louisiana. Mr. Toomey has 20 years of
employee benefits expertise and health plan management.
Toomey also brings extensive health care knowledge,
particularly in the area of customer service, operations
and sales to CIGNA HealthCare. Prior to joining CIGNA,
he served as the market head of national accounts
for Aetna in the Pacific Northwest, responsible for
national account sales and service for eight states.
Toomey also worked in the Los Angeles area leading
national sales and new business development for Aetna.
He is based in CIGNA HealthCare's Dallas office.
James Nadler, M.D., MPH, Medical Executive,
CIGNA HealthCare – South Texas
James L. Nadler, MD, MPH is a physician with over
10 years experience in a managed care environment
and has been serving as Site Medical Executive for
the Texas Health Plan since March 2000. He has been
with our health plan since 1996 with a primary focus
on utilization management.
Dr. Nadler is a member
of the National Provider Appeals Council. He was
the Medical Director for our Staff Model network
from 1996-1999. Prior to CIGNA, Dr. Nadler was Medical
Director for Humana Health Care Plans in Louisville,
Kentucky, and Medical Director of MedFirst Medical
Management, Inc. in Chicago, Illinois.
Dr. Nadler
is certified with the American Board of Preventive
Medicine. He received his Medical Degree from the
University of Michigan, served his residency at William
Beaumont Hospital in Michigan and the University
of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Nadler also received
his Masters of Public Health from the University
of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health.
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