Flasch: provider-owned plan focuses on quality, growth, and new technology

H. Michael Flasch, FHFMA, is vice president of claims/administrative services and support for Detroit, Michigan-based Health Alliance Plan (HAP), a subsidiary of Henry Ford Health System (HFHS), which also comprises a dozen owned or affiliated hospitals, 25 medical centers, and numerous other health services. His responsibilities at HAP encompass benefits coordination, configuration of information services, and the claims function. He also has played a key role in HAP's acquisition and integration of an HMO, SelectCare, in March 2001. Flasch joined HFHS in 1984 as associate controller and senior director of patient financial services. He served as vice president of managed care for HFHS and COO of Alliance Health and Life Insurance Company for HAP from 1995 until 2000, when he assumed his current position. Before Joining HFHS, Flasch worked for Hospital Corporation of America in Nashville, Tennessee, and other hospitals in Cincinnati.