Vice president of PA Chamber of Business and Industry to serve on health-care council

The Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (PHC4) recently elected Sam Denisco, Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry vice president of government affairs, as chairman.

Created in 1986, PHC4 is an independent agency that collects, analyzes, and makes public available data about the cost and quality of health care. The goal is to help residents make informed health-care choices and to improve quality and restrain costs.

“The PA Chamber has long supported the work and mission of the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council,” Denisco said. “The data and analyses provided by PHC4 have been invaluable to the Commonwealth’s employer community and consumers at large by helping bring transparency to the system in order to reduce costs and improve the quality of health care in the state. I’m honored to chair PHC4 and look forward to working with the Council and my fellow board members on continuing PHC4’s long tradition of providing the public with vital, easy to understand data to better inform their health care decisions.”

Frank Snyder, AFL-CIO secretary treasurer, was elected to serve as vice-chairman during the meeting, and Todd Shamash, Capital Blue Cross Senior vice president and general counsel, was elected as treasurer. Gene Barr, chamber president and CEO, serves as a PHC4 board member.