Grace H. Ting, MHA

"Applications of Indirect Estimation of Race/Ethnicity Data in Health Plan Activities"

Grace Ting has served as Health Services Director, Clinical Health Policy and Strategic Initiatives under the Chief Medical Officer's Division at WellPoint, Inc. since 1992. 

Over the past four years, Ms. Ting's work has focused exclusively on setting the corporate agenda to address and reduce health status disparities.  Besides leading a centralized analytic unit to provide health disparities analyses and mapping to assist WellPoint's health plans in quality improvement initiatives and business planning efforts, she also is responsible for developing and implementing enterprise-wide initiatives and pilots for members, providers, communities-at-large and WellPoint associates to address racial/ethnic health disparities. 

Prior to joining WellPoint, Ms. Ting worked in corporate strategic planning at Health Net in Woodland Hills, Calif., and in provider relations and marketing/patient satisfaction assessment roles at HealthCare Partners, Ltd., a large multi-specialty mixed model medical group in Torrance, California, which serves an extremely ethnically diverse patient base. 

Ms. Ting received her Bachelor of Science from University of California at Los Angeles and her Master's Degree in Health Administration from University of Southern California.