Our Company Leadership
Our senior management team is led by the tenured healthcare industry experience and extensive business development knowledge of our founder, Richard Lungen.
Richard L. Lungen — President / Founder
Following 16 years of leadership experience within the managed care, Life & Health Insurance and overall healthcare service industries, Richard Lungen founded The Lungen Group as a means to deliver best-practice solutions from leading healthcare service companies to healthcare payers.
Prior to founding The Lungen Group in 2007, Richard was Senior Vice President of Business Development at HealthPlan Services, a leading Business Process Outsourcing firm servicing health plans, Associations and Taft Hartley plans, where he was responsible for record sales. Between 2001 and 2005, Richard held sales and business development leadership positions with MedAvant Healthcare Solutions (previously ProxyMed, PILL: NASDAQ). In this capacity, he was responsible for payer facing solutions related to Preferred Provider Organization (PPO) access, PPO Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), strategic relationships, and EDI clearinghouse services.
During 1998 - 2001, Richard was Vice President of Sales for PlanVista Solutions where he worked with the industry's premier payers and TPAs, and was responsible for top revenue production in each year. In 1993, Richard was an original employee at the launch of National Preferred Provider Network (NPPN), one of the nations largest PPOs, and worked with them through 1998 when the company was sold to HealthPlan Services. At NPPN, Richard was responsible for virtually all original and subsequent large payer sales, strategies and many PPO relationships. Between 1992 - 1993, Richard was with Medical Administrators, a full service insurance agency and TPA, which handled small group and individual insurance sales as well as Self-Insured employers.
Richard's tactical and leadership roles have allowed him to develop deep experience and tenured market knowledge related to healthcare payer sales and strategies, service vendors, PPOs, BPO and provider contracting. This knowledge and firsthand experience drives The Lungen Group to provide healthcare payers with innovative solutions that optimize efficiencies and generate new revenue.
Charles J. Falcone — Principal
Charlie is a senior healthcare executive with more than fifteen years of experience in managed care, technology, healthcare delivery, pharmaceutical management, and medical device development and distribution.
From 2000–2009, Charlie led Devon Health Services, a Preferred Provider Organization (PPO) and national healthcare cost containment company. He held the title of President from 2004-2009 and the titles of Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer from 2000-2004. Under Charlie's leadership, Devon experienced double digit revenue and income growth and established itself as a national presence in the healthcare marketplace.
While at Devon, Charlie created and managed strategic alliances with some of the largest payers, providers and vendors in the industry. His experience includes the development and management of fee-for-service and risk bearing networks, marketing, sales, care management and operations for insured individual, small and large group plans; self-funded employer and Taft Hartley plans; workers' compensation and motor vehicle programs; and various government payer plans.
Charlie's experience at Devon Health included the development of several start-up entities in the healthcare industry including Supply Marketing, a "point of care" marketing and communications company and Devon Medical, a medical device manufacturing and sourcing company. Charlie held the title of President for both entities and was instrumental in building and developing these companies.
Prior to 2000, Charlie held various positions at Americare Health Services including Vice President of Sales and Vice President of Network Development. During that time, Charlie helped to create and develop some of the first risk bearing Provider Sponsored Organizations (PSO) in the northeastern United States.
Charlie is a member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee for the American Association of Preferred Provider Organizations, an industry advocacy association; a member of the Board of Directors of GeneSynIPV, a venture fund and company catalyst organization; a member of the Young Presidents' Organization (YPO); and a member of the Advisory Committee for several start-up and established entities in the healthcare technology and service industries. In 2004, Charlie received the prestigious "40 under Forty" award from the Philadelphia Business Journal.