Elevated Insights Summit 2026

Lee Lewis

Moving from Transparency to Control

Anna Quarum 

 

Nathan Erway

Success by Design: How Focusing on What We Can Control Changed Our Outcomes

Julie Selesnick

Don’t Get Sued 

Nicholas Ade

Still Standing: A Story of Art, Survival, and Forward Motion

About the Speakers:

Lee Lewis- Chief Strategy Officer and GM Medical Solutions

Lee Lewis serves as Chief Strategy Officer and GM Medical Solutions for the Health Transformation Alliance, a co-op of 85 jumbo employers with six million lives. Within this role he built new approaches to direct primary care and mental health, new models for carrier selection and management, innovative plan designs to change employer results, and new systems for managing consultants. His strategies are in place at around a quarter of the Fortune 200. He is also host of the leading employer health podcast Broken Benefits.

Lee has further advised healthcare strategy at insurance companies, medical associations and the Departments of Justice and Labor, and has been quoted in Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal. He is a founding, charter member of the Health Rosetta organization, which seeks to open-source employer health benefits strategy.

Before joining the HTA, Lee was ranked the #2 consultant in the world for Gallagher in health benefits consulting and was named the top large-employer consultant in the U.S. by the Validation Institute. Lee is a Rhodes Scholar Nominee and graduated Second in his Class, Magna cum Laude with University Honors.

9:10 AM – 10:15 AM

Topic: Moving from Transparency to Control

Anna Quarum- Co-Founder of WellRithms  – At Large WellRithms. 

Anna Quarum brought her education from Liberty University, George Fox University, and Western Seminary and her background in education, chaplaincy, and property management to co-founding WellRithms in 2018. Shortly after, in 2021, she became Chief Operating Officer and was pivotal in the company’s ten-fold revenue growth.

In 2025, she transitioned from COO of WellRithms to focus solely on her role as Founder of Audxguard, which provides post-payment medical claims data analysis, review and recovery services for self funded health plans.

Anna is currently chairwoman of the NCCIA conference planning committee and was nominated in 2024 for the prestigious Stevie Award.

 

10:30 AM – 11:15 AM

Topic: The Importance of Itemized Bill Review

 
 

Nathan Erway- Chief Financial Officer of Verber Dental Group

Nathan Erway is the Chief Financial Officer of Verber Dental Group, where he leads financial strategy, operations, and growth initiatives across a multi-location dental organization serving Central Pennsylvania. He brings a practical, people-first approach to managing healthcare costs and employee benefits, with a focus on supporting his team while maintaining access to high-quality patient care. He holds an MBA from West Chester University of Pennsylvania.

11:30 AM – 12:00 PM

Topic: Success by Design: How Focusing on What We Can Control Changed Our Outcomes

Julie Selesnick- Executive Director of Legal and Compliance at Judi Group

Julie Selesnick is a veteran attorney with 25 years of experience in complex litigation and health plan compliance. Over the course of her career, she has helped clients recover more than $100 million through dispute resolution, settlements and verdicts.
 

In 2026, Julie joined Judi Group as Executive Director of Legal and Compliance. Judi Group is a premier, independent healthcare advisory firm dedicated to dismantling systemic opacity in the healthcare system and delivering transparency and unified oversight for employers, health systems, provider groups, state governments and municipalities, unions, and other payers. Julie also provides legal services through Health Plan Legal Counsel, a law firm she founded in 2025, when disputes arise or negotiations require formal legal representation.

Whether acting as a consultant or as counsel, Julie serves as a conflict-free partner to her clients. Her work focuses on managing fiduciary and regulatory risk, ensuring compliance, aligning procurement and vendor strategy with plan governance, and improving budget predictability through rigorous forensic review and risk engineering.
 
Julie routinely assists clients in obtaining and analyzing claims data; designing, administering, and evaluating vendor requests for information (RFIs) and requests for proposals (RFPs); and negotiating key provisions in administrative services, network, direct primary care, and pharmacy benefit management agreements.

1:15 PM – 2:00 PM

Topic: Don’t Get Sued

Nicholas Ade- Chief Executive Officer of Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet

Nicholas Ade is the Chief Executive Officer of Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, one of the world’s most respected classical ballet institutions. A native of Los Angeles, he enjoyed a decade-long professional dancing career with Pacific Northwest Ballet before transitioning into arts leadership and education.
Ade joined CPYB in 2012 and was appointed CEO in 2014, working closely with founder Marcia Dale Weary and carrying forward her legacy of excellence. A cancer survivor, he leads with resilience, perspective, and deep commitment to the future of ballet education. Nicholas lives with his wife, Paige, and their daughter, Rory.

2:15 PM – 2:45 PM

Topic: Still Standing: A Story of Art, Survival, and Forward Motion

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