Marc S. Ryan

Marc S. Ryan serves as MHK’s President and was one of MHK’s first executives shortly after its founding in 2010. Most recently, Marc served as MHK’s Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer and before that as its Chief Strategy and Compliance Officer. He is the author of the book The Healthcare Labyrinth: A Guide to Navigating Health Plans and Fixing American Health Insurance.

Prior to joining MHK, Marc held a number of executive-level regulatory, compliance, business development, and operations roles at a number of health plans. He launched and operated plans with Medicare, Medicaid, commercial and Exchange lines of business.

He also was the Secretary of Policy and Management and State Budget Director of Connecticut, where he oversaw all aspects of state budgeting and management. In this role, Marc created the state’s Medicaid and SCHIP managed care programs and oversaw its state employee and retiree health plans. He also created the state’s long-term care continuum program.

Marc was nominated by then HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson to serve on a panel of state program experts to advise CMS on aspects of Medicare Part D implementation. He was also nominated by Florida’s Medicaid Secretary to serve on the state’s Medicaid Reform advisory panel.

Marc graduated cum laude from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University with a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service. He received a Master of Public Administration, specializing in local government management and managed healthcare, from the University of New Haven. He was also inducted into Sigma Beta Delta, a national honor society for business, management and administration.