NPA Public Service Award Recipients

2023

  • Rep. John Moolenaar (R-MI-2)
  • Louise Rush, Assistant Commissioner, Division of Aging Services, New Jersey Department of Human Services
  • Joseph Billingsley, Assistant Deputy Director, Integrated Systems, California Department of Health Care Services

2022

  • Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR)
  • Rep. Spencer Roach (R-79-FL)
  • Daniel J. Cohen, Deputy Director, Integrated Policy, Mass Health

2021

  • Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA)

2020

  • Gov. Laura Kelly (D-KS)
  • Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI-12)
  • State Assemblywoman Angela McKnight (D-NJ)

2019

  • Rep. Jackie Walorski (R-IN)
  • Rep. Daire Rendon (R-103-MI)

2018

  • Rep. Lynn Jenkins (R-KS)
  • Rep. Ron Kind (D-WI)
  • Sen. Dave Hildenbrand (R-MI)
  • Laura Otterbourg, Director, Aging Services, New Jersey Department of Human Services

2017

  • Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC)
  • Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX-8)
  • Jennifer Kent, Director, California Department of Health Care Services

2016

  • Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA)
  • Sen. Joe Negron (R-FL-32)
  • Rep. Matt Hudson (R-FL-80)
  • Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR-3)

2015

  • Rita Landgraf, Secretary, Delaware Department of Health and Social Services

2014

  • Lin Christensen, Iowa Medicaid Program
  • Sen. Thomas Carper (D-DE)
  • Sen. Patrick Toomey (R-PA)
  • Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO)

2013

  • Shawn Sullivan, Kansas Department of Aging and Disability Services
  • Debra Curtis, Congressional Staff, House Ways and Means Committee

2012

  • Rep. Chris Smith (D-NJ)
  • James Introne, New York Governor's Office
  • Linda Gowdy, New York State Department of Health

2011

  • Dorothy Ginsberg, New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services
  • Dan Schoeps and Patrick Brady, Veterans Administration

2010

  • Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-CA)
  • Partners in PACE Team, Virginia

2009

  • Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA)
  • Mark Helmar, California Department of Health Care Services

2008

  • Hugh Eley and Allison Vuljoin, Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals

2007

  • Joan Haslett, Vermont Department of Disabilities, Aging and Independent Living
  • Philip A. Hamilton, Virginia House of Delegates
  • Sen. John D. Rockefeller, IV (D-WV)

2006

  • Margaret Peckham and Debra Katcher, Michigan Department of Community Health
  • Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-UT)
  • Sen. Blanche L. Lincoln (D-AR)
  • Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS)

2005

  • Diane Flanders, Director, MassHealth Coordinated Care System
  • Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
  • CMS Center for Medicaid and State Operations
  • CMS Center for Beneficiary Choices
  • CMS Center for Medicare Management

2004

  • Sen. John Breaux (D-LA)
  • Nicki Harvey, South Carolina Medicaid (Retired)
  • Judith Frye, Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services

2003

  • Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA)
  • Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT)
  • James Pezutti, Director, Pennsylvania Division of Long-Term Care Client Services
  • Thomas Scully, CMS Administrator, Washington, DC