Shelley C. Turk

Shelley Turk is divisional senior vice president of Health Care Delivery at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois (BCBSIL). She is responsible for contracting relationships with providers in Illinois to improve health outcomes, reduce costs, and enhance the quality of care for nearly 9 million members by aligning incentives and results.

Previously, Shelley was Vice President and General Counsel for BCBSIL, and general counsel of Health Care Management for Health Care Service Corporation representing Illinois, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas.

Shelley is passionate about teamwork, collaboration, and enhancing the member experience, while improving access, quality outcomes and managing the cost of care. Prior to joining HCSC, she was outside counsel at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck in Arizona ̶ with a focus on payer litigation and transactions across the west coast.

She was also lead counsel for Coventry Health Care networks, Altius Health Plans Utah, and Coventry Health Care of Nevada. Prior to this, Shelley advised providers on ways to build successful long-term acute care hospitals from site location to Medicare certification and guided providers in crisis on managing critical regulator site audits.

Shelley earned a Juris Doctor and Health Law Certificate from Loyola University Chicago School of Law and Bachelor of Arts degrees in Psychology and Spanish from Macalester College. She volunteers on the advisory board of Local Initiatives Support Corporation Chicago.