APG Colloquium 2019
Mariella Cummings is the President of Results Incorporated, a health care focused management consulting company, through which company she served for sixteen years as the Chief Executive Officer of Physicians of Southwest Washington (PSW), an Olympia based independent physicians association. She resigned as CEO in March 2016 to pursue consulting opportunities with other medical groups interested in prospering through the transition to value based reimbursement and the attendant health delivery challenges and opportunities consistent with the Triple Aim. Her primary consulting interests include IPA management, capitation, value based contracting, and provider communication. Cummings has significant health plan experience having served as a VP for claims for a Midwest commercial health plan as the Insurance Commissioner appointed consumer advocate to the board of the WA high risk health pool plan. She was the initial CEO and later Chair of the Board of Directors of Soundpath Health, a Medicare Advantage health plan founded by PSW with two additional physician groups. For eighteen years Cummings also served as a member and Board Chair for the Western Institutional Review Board. A former hospital CEO, Cummings administrative experience also includes public health administration, serving as the Director of Infectious Disease and Reproductive Health for the Washington Department of Health, in which capacity she managed all of the HIV/AIDS prevention, surveillance and care services programs. Cummings is the current Board Chair of the Thurston County Chamber of Commerce and a County Commissioner appointed member of board of the Pacific Mountain Workforce Development Council. Cummings Co-chairs the Northwest Regional CAPG membership group. She is a frequent speaker at health care conferences. Cummings has a BS in Nursing from the University of Washington and a Master of Science degree from the University of Arizona. She has three adult children and five grandchildren. She resides in Olympia, WA.