Dr. Steven Udvarhelyi is Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer for Independence Blue Cross and its affiliated companies (IBC).

In this role, Dr. Udvarhelyi has overall responsibility for medical management programs and policies, provider contracting and provider relations, pharmacy services, and informatics. Specific areas of responsibility in medical management include utilization management; case management; disease management; quality management; prevention and wellness; claim payment policy, and member and provider appeals and grievances.  In overseeing informatics, Dr. Udvarhelyi is responsible for corporate-wide information management and reporting activities.  Dr. Udvarhelyi also has oversight over IBC’s pharmacy benefit management subsidiary.

Dr. Udvarhelyi is a board certified internist and has over 15 years of experience in the managed care industry.  He received an A.B. degree from Harvard College, an M.D. degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and a Master of Science degree in Health Services Administration from the Harvard School of Public Health.

Prior to his career in the managed care and insurance industry, Dr. Udvarhelyi was a faculty member at Harvard Medical School and has published numerous articles on quality in health care.  

He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA); the National Council of Physician Executives of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, and on the Chief Medical Officers Committee of America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP).  He is also a member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Roundtable on Evidence-Based Medicine, and has served on other IOM committees in the past.