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