HEALTH-CARE & HEALTH INSURANCE KEY CONTACTS

Staff Contact: Margaret Moree

NYS SENATE HEALTH COMMITTEE — MAJORITY
420 State Capitol Building
Albany, New York 12247
(518 area code)

CONTACT	TITLE	PHONE NO.
Senator Kemp Hannon	Chairman	455-2200
Kristin Sinclair	Director of Health Committee	455-2541

NYS SENATE HEALTH COMMITTEE — MINORITY
Legislative Office Building
Albany, New York 12247
(518 area code)

CONTACT	TITLE	PHONE NO.
Senator Thomas Duane	Ranking Member	455-2541

NYS ASSEMBLY HEALTH COMMITTEE — MAJORITY
822 Legislative Office Building
Albany, New York 12248
(518 area code)

CONTACT	TITLE	PHONE NO.
Assemblyman Richard Gottfried	Chairman	455-4941
Richard Conti	Executive Director of Health Committee	455-4941

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
Empire State Plaza
Albany, New York 12237
(518 area code)

CONTACT	TITLE	PHONE NO.
Dr. Nirav R. Shah	Commissioner	474-2011
Sue E. Kelley	Executive Deputy Commissioner	474-0458
Maryellen Jacobson	Assistant to the Commissioner	474-2011
Office of Governmental & External Affairs
James Clancy	Assistant Commissioner	473-1124
Office of Health Emergency Preparedness
Robert Burhans	Director	408-5163
Office of Health Information Technology Transformation
Rachel Block	Deputy Commissioner	474-5423
Office of Health Insurance Programs & Medicaid Director
Jason A. Helgerson	Deputy Commissioner	474-3018
Guy Boretti	Director, Workers’ Compensation Program	474-5514
Division of Legal Affairs
James Dering	General Counsel	474-7553
Office of Long Term Care
Mark Kissinger	Deputy Commissioner	402-5673
Office of Public Health
Dr. Guthrie Birkhead	Deputy Commissioner	474-5073

OFFICE OF THE MEDICAID INSPECTOR GENERAL
Riverview Center
150 Broadway
Albany, New York 12204
(518) area code

CONTACT	TITLE	PHONE NO.
James Cox	Medicaid Inspector General	473-3782