Jay Cushman, President of Health Planning & Development, LLC
Jay has been a consultant to the health care field since 1977 and has provided management consulting and health planning services to the hospice sector since 1995.
He frequently provides expert testimony and consultation in matters relating to the planning and regulation of hospice programs.
Health Planning & Development, LLC specializes in the analysis of large public and private health care databases to provide decision support and planning assistance to health care organizations.
Jay has been a frequent partner with Summit Business Group, LLC; providing critical data analysis for strategic planning and hospice house feasibility studies.
Jay Mahoney, Principal, Summit Business Group, LLC
Jay Mahoney founded Summit Business Group, LLC in 1998.
Mahoney and his colleagues have provided consulting services to hospices, health systems, home health agencies, trade groups, insurance and pharmaceutical companies across the country.
Mahoney also established the Hospice Compliance Network, a national network of hospices and their corporate compliance officers focused on regulatory and corporate compliance issues for hospices.
Mahoney received his Bachelor and Master degrees from the University of Colorado.
He began his hospice career as Executive Director of Boulder County Hospice in 1982, and emerged as a state and national leader in the then nascent hospice movement.
Boulder County Hospice became one of the first hospices in the country to become a Medicare certified hospice provider and to have its own general inpatient care unit.
Mahoney left Colorado for Washington, DC to head the National Hospice Organization (NHO) now called the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), in 1984.
A position he held for more than 14 years.
Mahoney has lectured extensively on hospice care nationally and around the world.
Besides many leading industry publications, Mahoney’s writings and comments have appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine, American Medical News and the Journal of Palliative Medicine.
He has several manuals and books that are currently available that he co-authored or edited, including: One Patient, One Day: Making Your Hospice a Leader in End of Life Care with co-authors Mary Michal and Larry Beresford.
With Marcia Lattanzi-Licht, and Galen Miller, Mahoney co-authored The Hospice Choice: In Pursuit of a Peaceful Death, published by Simon & Schuster.
He also edited and contributed chapters to: Hospice Operations: Resources for Managing a Hospice Program of Care.
Mahoney has received the Founders Award from the National Hospice Foundation, the Inspector General’s Integrity Award from the HHS Office of the Inspector General, the Administrator’s Achievement Award, from the (now) Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and a Honorary Doctorate from the University of Colorado.
