James R. Currey, MSIS

James Currey has over 13 years of experience working in healthcare data and technology. Mr. Currey’s primary contributions to building provider programs is in the behavioral space, although he has enjoyed more broad implementations in the Medicaid and Duals programs in the past few years. Key achievements have been plans in: AZ, CA, DC, FL, IL, LA, MA, NY, PA, TX, VA, and WA. Through the implementation of these plans, Mr. Currey has come to appreciate the complexities of the provider community; and how we can improve the lives of members through the use of rich data understanding. The keys to achieving technology success in the health plan space for Mr. Currey, and his team, are in understanding “the purpose of the program beyond the programming.” Mr. Currey takes particular satisfaction at building and mentoring strong teams around this ethos. Mr. Currey currently oversees Informatics, Operational Reporting, Geospatial Analytics, Business Intelligence teams, and reporting tool development teams for Magellan Healthcare in Behavioral Health, Specialty, EAP, and Federal programs. Mr. Currey graduated with several advanced degrees in Information Systems and Statistics (BI) from the University of Missouri, where he still works with his alma mater on research topics, such as: network capacity, healthcare data mining, and provider behavior.