Robert Bickford, MBA

Robert Bickford has spent thirty-five years in Managed Care Finance and Operations.  He has specialized in start-ups, provider-owned and provider sponsored plans. He began his career in upstate New York with MVP Healthcare as a start-up and helped to grew it to half a million members in Eastern and Central New York and Western New England. He spent the next twenty years in Physical Health Choices, Behavioral Health Choices, and the Pennsylvania Employee Benefits Trust Fund as CFO, and the last two and a half years as Deputy CFO at Community Behavioral Health in Philadelphia. In his spare time, Mr. Bickford is published author, writing murder mysteries, under the name of J. T. Kunkel.