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.