Helen Darling Biography

Helen Darling is president and CEO of the National Business Group on Health a national non-profit membership organization devoted exclusively to providing practical solutions to its employer-members’ most important health care problems and representing large employers’ perspective on national health policy issues. Its 372 members including 66 of the Fortune 100 in 2013 purchase health and disability benefits for over 50 million employees retirees and dependents.
Darling was the 2009 recipient of WorldatWork’s Keystone Award its highest honor in recognition of sustained contributions to the field of human resources and benefits. She received the President’s Award by the AmericanCollege of Occupational and Environmental Medicine in 2010. She was given a lifetime appointment in 2003 as a National Associate of the National Academy of Sciences for her work for the Institute of Medicine. In 2011and 2012 she was named one of the 100 Most Influential People in Health Care by Modern Healthcare and One of the Top 25 Women in Health Care in 2013. In 2012 she was given NCQA’s Health Quality Leader Award.
Darling serves on: the Committee on Performance Measurement of the National Committee for Quality Assurance (co-chair for 10 years); the Medical Advisory Panel Technology Evaluation Center (Blue Cross Blue Shield Association); the Institute of Medicine’s Roundtable on Value and Science-Driven Health Care the Medicare Coverage Advisory Committee and the Institute of Medicine’s Committee on the Learning Health System in America. She is Vice Chair of the board of directors of the National Quality Forum and a director of the Congressionally-created Reagan-Udall Foundation.

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