ABOUT PROVIDERS HEALTH SOLUTIONS
Built by people who understand every side of healthcare.
Our leadership brings experience across payer, provider, clinical, pharmacy, finance, legal, technology, human resources, and employer operations.
OUR PERSPECTIVE
Louisiana roots. Personal accountability. Broader capability.
Based in Monroe, Louisiana, PHS pairs responsive relationships with the partners, networks, technology, and operational discipline needed to support self-funded employers.
LEADERSHIP
Experienced from the inside out.
Noble Ellington, III
Noble Ellington, III brings more than 40 years of healthcare experience, including eight years with Vantage Health Plan, to Providers Health Solutions. He connects benefit strategy, provider relationships, network solutions, medical management, data, and service to help self-funded employers control costs without compromising quality.
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Sarah Scheffsky JD, MBA
Sarah Scheffsky serves as Chief Operating Officer and Legal Counsel for Providers Health Solutions. A former Army Judge Advocate and Vantage Health Plan in-house counsel, she integrates legal, regulatory, contracting, governance, and operational leadership to move self-funded strategies from design to execution.
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John Kahl
John Kahl brings more than 18 years of healthcare finance and operations experience to Providers Health Solutions. As Chief Financial Officer, he evaluates cost drivers, vendor economics, network opportunities, operating models, scalability, and sustainability to support disciplined self-funded plan decisions.
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Jeff Lodgen
Jeff Lodgen brings more than 24 years of technology leadership, including approximately a decade at Vantage Health Plan, to Providers Health Solutions. He advances secure data exchange, analytics, vendor integration, cybersecurity, privacy, resilience, and platforms supporting informed self-funded decisions.
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Savannah Ray MSN, FNP-C
Savannah Ray, MSN, FNP-C, brings more than 15 years of clinical and operational experience to Providers Health Solutions, including population health programs developed with Vantage Health Plan. She shapes medical management, member engagement, care navigation, quality strategy, and measurable outcomes.
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Michal Hale SHRM-CP
Michal Hale, SHRM-CP, brings more than a decade of healthcare HR leadership to Providers Health Solutions, including nearly a decade at Vantage Health Plan. She connects workforce strategy, employee experience, organizational development, leadership capability, and scalable self-funded operations.
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Dr. Gary Jones MD
Dr. Gary Jones is a board-certified family physician, founder of Vantage Health Plan and Affinity Health Group, and Clinical Strategy Consultant to Providers Health Solutions. He helps self-funded employers align cost management, benefit strategy, provider relationships, quality, access, and appropriate care.
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Mike Breard
Mike Breard brings nearly three decades of health plan and provider organization leadership to Providers Health Solutions, including service as Executive Vice President of Vantage Health Plan. He contributes payer, provider, network, operational, and market insight to practical self-funded strategies and partnerships.
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Billy Justice
Billy Justice brings nearly 30 years of health insurance marketing and sales experience to Providers Health Solutions, including service as a founding Vantage Health Plan employee. He builds trusted employer, broker, consultant, provider, pharmacy, and community relationships supporting practical self-funded growth.
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