HistoryBiography
Susan Fox is now Co-Chair of the Board and President of Cognosante, LLC.
Dr. Fox was the founder of FOX Systems and has more than 25 years of experience assisting public and private health care programs. She was the Chair of the Board of FOX Systems and is a nationally known Medicaid, managed care, and HIPAA subject matter expert. She serves as our subject matter expert for the development of the Medicaid Information Technology Architecture (MITA) for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
Dr. Fox has strong qualifications in the design of Medicaid Management Information Systems (MMIS), cost containment strategies, reimbursement models, managed care alternatives, and the use of technology in the health care industry. She has participated in MMIS-related projects in Alaska, Arizona, California, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Maryland, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, and Vermont, and the Virgin Islands.
Dr. Fox has provided oversight and technical assistance to FOX HIPAA assessment project teams in Illinois, Hawaii, Nebraska, Oregon, Tennessee, California, and Alaska.
Dr. Fox is a frequent speaker at national health care conferences, has authored and edited numerous white papers on health care technology, and is Chair of the Communications Committee the Private Sector Technology Group, advisory to CMS. She has participated in the installation of MMIS Systems in over 20 states as well as in commercial health care settings. Dr. Fox has served as Client Executive on FOX Systems’ IV&V projects, and has participated in many Joint Application Design (JAD) sessions to define MMIS, decision support, and managed care reporting requirements.
Dr. Fox received a B.A., M.A., Ph.D., from the University of California, Berkeley and completed course work at the University of Southern California towards a MPA in Health Care Administration.
