Ivana Krajcinovic is the vice president for healthcare delivery at UNITE HERE HEALTH, a national Taft-Hartley Fund that purchases healthcare for over 200,000 unionized hospitality workers and their families. Combining her training as a health economist with more than 30 years working directly with immigrants and the working poor, Ivana oversees a wide variety of projects. She has deep expertise in engaging participants, ranging from benefit education to chronic disease self-management, as well as in developing peer-to-peer programs.

Ivana leads a team whose challenge is to radically bend the cost curve while maintaining quality coverage. Every dollar UHH spends on healthcare is a dollar that could go to a worker in wages -- higher wages that are likely to do more for workers’ health than increasing spending on their healthcare.

Ivana and her team have utilized narrow networks, value-based contracts, direct contracting, and have established health centers designed for their members. Ivana has a PhD in Economics from Yale University and is the author of From Company Doctors to Managed Care: The United Mineworkers’ Noble Experiment (Cornell University Press).