Robert A. Wychulis

Mr. Wychulis serves as a Fellow for the Payer business at Inovalon, a role created to leverage Mr. Wychulis’ deep industry experience, expertise, and distinguished career within the marketplace and at Inovalon. In this role, Mr. Wychulis focuses on industry trends and specific strategic client opportunities, relationships, operations, and support for Inovalon’s Payer business.

Prior to this role, Mr. Wychulis was the president and member of the Executive Leadership Team of Inovalon, where he was responsible for the oversight of the Company’s day-to-day operations across its business units and the related industry insight support, client engagement, and strategic relationships. Prior to joining Inovalon in 2014, Mr. Wychulis served as the President of the WellPoint New York government program health plan, HealthPlus, an Amerigroup company, where he was responsible for the full P&L management of the company’s $1.9 billion product portfolio within the New York region. Mr. Wychulis was responsible for oversight of medical management, quality improvement, finance, compliance, human resources, government relations, provider contracting, marketing, enrollment, strategic planning, and the managed long-term care product. Mr. Wychulis played a pivotal role in working with state regulators in transforming New York’s Medicaid delivery system through the state’s Medicaid Redesign Team (MRT), worked on complex premium rate setting issues within the state, and served on the state’s quality incentive committee for the long-term care populations. Under Mr. Wychulis’ direction, the plan realized a 300-percent growth in membership and a 600-percent increase in premium revenue. In 2013, he was awarded WellPoint’s Pinnacle Award, the company’s highest management award. In the same year, HealthPlus was the most profitable of the 20 WellPoint government program plans, while maintaining an upper tier quality and outcome ranking, and achieving NCQA accreditation status for the plan.

Prior to joining WellPoint/Amerigroup, Mr. Wychulis served as President and CEO of the Florida Association of Health Plans, where he expanded the Association from 8 to 26 plans in 4 years. Mr. Wychulis was responsible for driving the successful development of public policy and legislation that resulted in a significant expansion of covered lives and an increase in hundreds of millions of dollars in additional revenue to the Florida managed care plans. He facilitated critical strategic relationships with the hospital, medical, and health advocacy community and associations. Mr. Wychulis also served as President and CEO of HealthPlan Southeast, a North Florida managed care company comprised of state employee, commercial, and Medicaid/CHP contracts. Mr. Wychulis was instrumental in improving the plan’s performance and positioning it to serve as the base for the successful acquisition and integration of multiple Florida managed care organizations that are now Coventry/Aetna Florida.

Mr. Wychulis received his Bachelor of Political Science degree from the City College of New York and his Master of Health Administration and Planning from the Wagner School of Public Administration at New York University.