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Ed is currently an entrepreneur and Regional Owner of the Southwest Seniors Helping Seniors (SHS) in-home services. SHS’ mission is to improve the quality of life of seniors by providing non-medical in-home services to allow seniors to live in their homes longer with dignity and independence. From September 1999 to May 2009, Ed was the Vice President, Compliance & Government Relations, Health Net, Inc. Ed’s responsibilities included administering the Medicare compliance program and management of relations with the Agency that administers Medicare, CMS. Ed designed and implemented Health Net’s first Medicare compliance program. The compliance program adapted to frequent changes in Medicare, addressed all aspects of Medicare performance and was consistent with the best practices in the compliance arena. Ed provided leadership in the expansion of Health Net’s Medicare business as a member of the Senior Products Division executive management team over the last 5 years growing the Division’s annual revenue from $1.4 to over $4.0 billion. HN membership grew to over 700K members. Before coming to Health Net, Ed was a member of Kaiser Permanente’s corporate legal department for six years providing enterprise-wide legal services on all aspects of health care regulation.