Senior Vice President Center for Health Analytics, Research & Transformation NJHA
Bio
Sean J. Hopkins is the Senior Vice President of the Center for Health Analytics, Research & Transformation (CHART) at the New Jersey Hospital Association, a hospital and post-acute provider member organization located in Princeton New Jersey. As the Senior Vice President of CHART Mr. Hopkins is responsible for overseeing all analytical modeling, both financial and statistical, on behalf of the Association and its members and leads the Association’s CHART team in its pursuit of facilitating the Associations mission “to improve the health of the people of New Jersey”. Through data analytics and predictive modeling, CHART explores various methods to improve population health and the delivery of care to New Jersey’s residents with a focus on the most costly and vulnerable populations. Strategic investments in wellness and prevention programs as well as other social determinants of health, can have the effect of bending the cost curve through cost avoidance as a byproduct of improved health status. Mr. Hopkins has almost 40 years of experience in the healthcare field, and has successfully engineered and overseen several demonstration projects approved by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI).
Prior to joining the New Jersey Hospital Association Mr. Hopkins spent ten years with KA Consulting, Inc., a healthcare consulting company located in Edison, New Jersey. As a Senior Manager of Consulting Services Mr. Hopkins consulted regionally with hospitals on a wide range of financial and strategic issues.
Mr. Hopkins served as an ex-officio board member for the New Jersey Chapter of the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) and previously served as a member of the National HFMA’s Advisory Council.
Overall Mr. Hopkins has almost 40 years of healthcare experience. Mr. Hopkins graduated from St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, Pa. in 1981 and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting.