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Mickey Herbert

Mickey Herbert holds responsibilities as both President and CEO of ConnectiCare and as Executive Vice President of HIP Health Plan of New York. ConnectiCare is currently ranked number five by U.S. News and World Report in its list of America’s Best Health Plans® and number one in the state of Connecticut. ConnectiCare, a health plan based in Farmington, Connecticut was acquired by HIP in 2005. Mr. Herbert's senior roles reflect the extensive amount of knowledge and experience he brings to both organizations.

Prior to joining HIP and ConnectiCare in 2005, Mr. Herbert was the founder and CEO for 22 years of Physicians Health Services (PHS), a publicly-traded health plan serving the tri-state region of Connecticut, New York and New Jersey. Under his leadership, PHS grew to serve over 550,000 members. An eminent figure in national HMO affairs, Mr. Herbert is a past chair of both the American Association of Health Plans and the former American Managed Care and Review Association. He currently serves as board member of America’s health Insurance Plans (AHIP). Before founding PHS, he was Vice President of InterStudy, a national health policy research firm. Herbert also served as President, CEO and majority owner of the Bridgeport Bluefish Baseball Club, an independent professional baseball team in the Atlantic Professional Baseball League.

A dedicated worker on behalf of the community, Mr. Herbert serves on the boards of numerous organizations throughout Connecticut including the Fairfield County Community Foundation, the Barnum Museum, the Barnum Festival, the Connecticut Business and Industry Association (CBIA), the School for Ethical Education, the University of Connecticut Foundation, and the Metro Hartford Alliance (where he chairs that organization’s Economic Development Council). He is a past Chairman of the Bridgeport Regional Business Council and a member of its Executive Committee. He is also the immediate past Chairman of the former Greater Bridgeport Area Foundation.

In 2006, Mr. Herbert was named co-chair of the Connecticut Health Insurance Policy Council formed to study Connecticut’s healthcare system and to create recommendations on how to improve that system. In 2007, he was appointed as the health insurance industry’s representative to the HealthFirst Connecticut Authority commissioned by the Connecticut General Assembly during the 2007 legislative session to research ways to move Connecticut towards expanding health care coverage.

Mickey Herbert earned a B.A. at Swarthmore College and an M.B.A. at Harvard University. He is a graduate of a special HMO Fellowship Training Program at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and was a Senior Fellow of the Executive Program in Managed Care at the University of Missouri in Kansas City. He holds an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Bridgeport.

He has five children and lives with his wife, Jackie, in Fairfield, CT.