Patricia Marine Barrett BA, MHSA, PCMH, CCE

Tricia Marine Barrett is the lead consultant for General Motors on managed care. As HAP Associate Vice President and the Program Director for the HAP/GM Managed Care Consulting Team, she is responsible for evaluating the quality and efficiency of GM’s managed care offerings nationally and for establishing supplier development activities with all of GM’s HMOs. In this role, she participates in the NCQA Purchaser Advisory Council, the National Business Coalition on Health eValue8 Steering Committee and serves as an author and scorer for the eValue8 RFI.

Ms. Barrett joined the Health Alliance Plan (HAP) in Detroit, Michigan as an Analyst in the Quality Management Department in 1993. HAP is a 550,000 member mixed model managed care organization serving commercial and Medicare populations and a wholly owned subsidiary of the Henry Ford Health System. During her 13 years with HAP, she has served in a variety of roles including Manager of Research, Analysis and Program Development, Acting Director of Managed Care Information and Director of Quality Management.

As Director of QM, she had responsibility for all clinical quality improvement and disease management programs as well as HEDIS production and NCQA accreditation for the organization as a whole. In addition, Ms. Barrett was a member of the NCQA HEDIS Policy Panel and served as the Chairperson for the Measurement Committee of the Michigan Quality Improvement Consortium (MQIC). She attended the University of Michigan receiving her Bachelor's degree in Sociology and a Masters Degree in Health Services Administration from the School of Public Health.