BIOGRAPHY
Cyndy Nayer is a founder of the Center for Health Value Innovation and serves as its President and Chief Executive Officer. The Center is dedicated to sharing the evidence of improved health and economic outcomes through value-based designs. Nayer is recognized as a thought leader for value-based benefit design, and has tracked the emergence, adoption and change in value-based designs and their link to consumer-directed health. Under her leadership, the Center is supporting efforts in both public and private sectors to make value-based insurance design an integral component of the health system transformation.
She is co-author of Leveraging Health: improve health status and bend the trend on financial outcomes with value-based designs, published in 2009. In 2006 she published a consumer handbook for value-based health decisions, entitled 101 Lifetips for Personal Health Management, identifying the roadmap for becoming the CEO of one’s health-wealth portfolio, a concept she has copyrighted.
Ms. Nayer also leads River City Partnership on Health, Inc., a national employer health strategy company linking employers, health plans, and providers in improved Total Health Management. On behalf of the Center, and River City, she has authored multiple, authoritative articles on value based design, and is often called upon to present at high-profile industry conferences.
She was awarded the CEO Leadership award in Consumer Driven Health by CDHC Solutions in September 2008. She is the past chair of the Missouri Governor’s Council on Health and Fitness, an honored Woman of Worth, the first recipient of the Missouri State Health and Fitness Professional Award, a graduate of the Missouri Focus on Women‘s Leadership and the recipient of the American Heart Association Letter of Commendation for the Aetna Women‘s Health Toolkit.
Ms. Nayer is a graduate of Washington University and holds a graduate degree in Gerontology with a special focus on healthy aging.