Martin Hickey

Martin Hickey is the first President/CEO of Alegent Health Clinic in Omaha, Nebraska, where he built a large multi-specialty group practice for the nine-hospital Alegent Health System in Nebraska and Iowa. Because of impending major ACO competition in Omaha and to access his insurance and ACO experience Dr. Hickey has been named Chief Accountable Care Officer for Alegent Health. Prior to Alegent, Martin served as Senior Vice President of Health Care Affairs at Excellus Blue Cross. 1997-2002, he served as President and CEO of Lovelace Health Systems in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Dr. Hickey began his career on the Navajo Reservation in the Indian Health Service. He moved to the VA and then to the University of New Mexico. He set up pilot rural health programs, was an associate professor of Internal Medicine, developed an office of Managed Care Contracting, and served as Medical Director of the University Physician Associates. He is a graduate of the Rush Medical College in Chicago. He earned his MA in Administrative Medicine from the University of Wisconsin, and completed a residency in Primary Care Internal Medicine at the University of Rochester.