Jason Helgerson

Jason Helgerson

Chief Executive Officer
Helgerson Solutions Group

Jason founded Helgerson Solutions Group and serves as its Chief Executive Officer, leading the firm’s mission of making the world a better place. An eternal optimist,
Jason believes in new, innovative approaches to solving complex problems in health and social care. Prior to his move to HSG, Jason was New York State’s Medicaid Director, a role he held for over seven years. New York’s Medicaid program provides health care services to over 6.6 million New Yorkers and has an annual budget in excess of $68 billion. During his time leading the Medicaid program in New York, Jason secured New York’s 1115 Waiver from the federal government, which infused $8 billion for New York State’s Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment program (DSRIP). Over five years, the DSRIP program in New York created local, multi-sectoral partnerships with the aim of fundamentally restructuring the delivery of healthcare in New York & transitioning 80% of Medicaid payments into value-based arrangements.
Jason also served as Executive Director for New York’s Medicaid Redesign Team (MRT), directing Governor Andrew Cuomo’s effort to fundamentally reshape the state’s Medicaid program in order to both lower costs and improve health care quality. Through this collaborative, stakeholder-driven process, the MRT accomplished $34 billion in savings over five years for the state & federal government.