How Noridian chooses their board members.

When selecting board members, Noridian seeks individuals with expertise across healthcare, technology, insurance, and strategic leadership. A strong understanding of the healthcare industry is essential, as board members must navigate regulatory landscapes, healthcare trends, and complex insurance dynamics, bringing valuable insights that shape Noridian’s direction.

Given Noridian’s focus on healthcare technology, board members with backgrounds in software development, cybersecurity, and data analytics offer guidance on building secure, user-friendly platforms. Their expertise in emerging technologies like AI and telehealth solutions is key to driving Noridian’s competitive edge and ensuring compliance with data standards.

Effective board members also bring strategic vision and governance experience, helping Noridian balance risk with growth. With expertise in financial management and risk assessment, they navigate healthcare and insurance sector challenges, aligning with Noridian’s mission to enhance healthcare accessibility and affordability.

Ranga Nutakki

Senior Vice President (SVP) and General Counsel

Ranga Nutakki is senior vice president and general counsel at Noridian Healthcare Solutions. He has been in this role since 2020 and brings over 20 years of legal experience to Noridian. Nutakki is responsible for the strategic leadership of the legal function.

Jennifer Sandell

Senior Vice President (SVP) of Strategy and Risk Management

Jennifer Sandell is senior vice president of strategy and risk management at Noridian Healthcare Solutions. She has been in this role since 2021 and brings more than 15 years of finance, accounting and risk management experience to Noridian. Sandell is responsible for moving Noridian’s strategic plan forward and ensuring Noridian operates optimally to achieve strategic planning goals.

Woody Barela

Senior Vice President (SVP), Chief Growth Officer

Woody Barela is the senior vice president, chief growth officer at Noridian Healthcare Solutions and has been in this role since 2021. Barela has been with Noridian since 2016 and has over 25 years of experience successfully growing health care, technology and government services businesses.

Barela specializes in strategic planning, business development, product development and marketing services for the health care and population health management industry. He has worked with organizations across the health care ecosystem including government payers, health insurers, hospitals, physicians and pharmaceutical companies.

Troy Aswege

Senior Vice President (SVP), Operations

Troy Aswege is Senior Vice President of Operations at Noridian Healthcare Solutions. He has been in this role since 2014 and brings over 30 years of health care administration experience to Noridian. Aswege is responsible for overall operations, business unit supervision, management and performance. He works to position Noridian’s business units to support growth, while consistently meeting production and quality metrics.

Todd Knain

Senior Vice President (SVP), Chief Information Officer

Todd Knain is the Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer at Noridian Healthcare Solutions and has served as CIO since 2017. Knain oversees all information technology and system security activities for Noridian. He collaborates with other senior leaders at Noridian to tailor and deliver IT, security and support services based on Noridian’s organizational strategy.

Knain began his tenure with Noridian in April 2003 as a tech support intern. During his time at Noridian, Knain has spent 15 years in information technology. He specializes in large-scale IT leadership as well as business and strategic development.

Cathy Benoit

Senior Vice President (SVP), Customer Relations

Cathy Benoit is the Senior Vice President of Customer Relations at Noridian Healthcare Solutions and has been in this role since 2023. Benoit has over three decades of experience in health care, and over twenty of those years was working for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) where she led many high-profile initiatives. Given her in-depth experience, Benoit brings a commitment to ensuring the success of Noridian’s government programs. She joined Noridian in 2022 as the vice president of customer experience.

 

Laura Werk

Senior Vice President (SVP), Chief Financial Officer

Laura Werk is the Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer at Noridian Healthcare Solutions. Werk joined Noridian in 2021 as Vice President of Finance and was later promoted to senior leadership.

Werk has strong business acumen across financial and operations management and specializes in strategic budgeting and streamlining business operations.

Jon Bogenreif

President & CEO

Jon Bogenreif is the chief executive officer at Noridian Healthcare Solutions and has been in this role since 2020 when he was named CEO-Elect. Bogenreif provides executive leadership and direction to achieve Noridian’s strategic and operational goals, diversifies the organization’s business activities, provides stability in a fast-changing environment, enhances Noridian’s performance and visibility, as well as establishes Noridian as a leader in developing solutions for federal, state and commercial health care programs.

 
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Noridian Health Solutions

Noridian pursues excellence.

Since 1966, Noridian has worked to solve some of healthcare’s biggest challenges. Whether it is administrative inefficiencies, suboptimal care, or even fraud and abuse, Noridian is here to help.

Today, public and commercial payers across the nation rely on us for back-office solutions. Ultimately, Noridian’s efficacy comes down to our people. We’re a group of progressive thinkers who apply our expertise to help you navigate the ever-changing healthcare landscape.

Noridian

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Mission

Noridian provides healthcare administration support services and back-office solutions in all 50 U.S. states and many U.S. territories.

our
vision

For decades, Noridian has earned trust through action, putting people first to enable access, remove barriers, and uplift lives.

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expertise

For nearly 60 years, we’ve delivered expert, people-focused healthcare support, earning trust through quality and dedication.

ingenuity

INGENUITY DISRUPTS THE STATUS QUO

Our approach to your business problems.

Ingenuity fuels innovation, empowering us to combine strategy, logic, and creativity to tackle challenges head-on. By embracing this approach, we deliver impactful solutions that drive progress and benefit both you and your organization. It’s at the core of who we are, enabling us to solve your most complex problems effectively.

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Engagement & passion

We provide opportunities for employees to grow continuously by driving engagement, passion and delivering key creative and strategic value to the organization.

Short-term results

We specialize in optimizing existing businesses to achieve short-term results by identifying and leveraging both explicit and implicit assumptions that drive their current operations.

Long-term results

We achieve strategic long-term results by specifying boundary conditions of existing logic and understanding possible new logic that can disrupt the status quo.

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Delivering Solutions that put people first

The 2024 Annual Report provides valuable insights into Noridian’s achievements and initiatives over the past year, showcasing our commitment to excellence and innovation in serving our customers and communities.

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Leadership

meet our team

Noridian’s leadership sets our vision, ensuring independence and expertise on the board. All members are unaffiliated with healthcare providers, and three are fully independent from Noridian.

SENIOR LEADERSHIP TEAM

Jon Bogenreif

President & CEO

Laura Werk

Senior Vice President (SVP), Chief Financial Officer

Cathy Benoit

Senior Vice President (SVP), Customer Relations

Todd Knain

Senior Vice President (SVP), Chief Information Officer

Troy Aswege

Senior Vice President (SVP), Operations

Woody Barela

Senior Vice President (SVP), Chief Growth Officer

Jennifer Sandell

Senior Vice President (SVP) of Strategy and Risk Management

Ranga Nutakki

Senior Vice President (SVP) and General Counsel

BOARD MEMBERS

Dan Conrad

Board Chair

Karen Klein

Board Vice Chair

Tim Huckle

Board Member

Amy Caro

Board Member

David Sprynczynatyk

Board Member

Peter Zimmerman

Board Member

Cyndee Thormodson

Board Member

Kim Brandt

Board Member

Charlene Frizzera

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