Our Leadership

Meet the Team Moving Health Care Forward.

Dennis White

MSIT, DHA
President and CEO

Carol Allen

A.S., CSSBB
Executive Vice President, Operations & Chief Operating Officer

Will Battles

MHA, MBA
Chief Strategy Officer

Greg Greenlow

CPA
Chief Financial And Compliance Officer

John Slaughter

BSC
Chief Information Officer

Margot Wilson Townsend

CPC, CHR-PHR
Chief Human Resources Officer

Linda Kluge

RD, LD, CPHQ
Senior Executive Director, Quality & Strategic Alliances

Kimberly Rask

MD, PHD
Chief Data Officer

Dianne Bennett-Johnson

MD, FACP
Medical Director, Medical Management Services

Natasha Avery

DRPH, LMSW, CHES, CPHQ
Senior Executive Director, State & Federal Programs

Mary Albin

BS, CPHQ
Executive Director, ESRD Alliant Networks

How We Help

Care Management

Clinician-led services that ensure the right care, in the right setting for the right duration by providing medical review services, prior authorizations, case management and level-of-care determination.

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Quality Improvement

Deploy a robust, agile platform for broad engagement and use of data to drive quality improvement through use of evidence-based tools and methods to accelerate those improvements.

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Program Integrity

Utilizing analysis and reviews, we ensure compliance and reduce improper payments, driving out fraud, waste and abuse.

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Education & Training

Working collaboratively with health care providers, we improve quality and outcomes through targeted education and dissemination of best practices in evidence-based medicine. We educate health care consumers to improve health and outcomes.

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Dennis White

MSIT, DHA

President and CEO

Dr. Dennis White is the president and chief executive officer of Alliant Health Solutions, a $30 million nonprofit family of companies helping governmental agencies ensure health care quality is improved and tax dollars are used appropriately in the administration of public sector health care programs. Under his strategic leadership, Alliant has expanded its operations to 17 states, with offices in Florida, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Texas. In 2022, Alliant received the honor of being named one of the "Best Places to Work" by the Atlanta Business Chronicle for the 11th time.

Dr. White’s experience in health care and information technology spans more than 25 years. He has dedicated his career to executing state and federal government contracts that center on improving health care quality and efficiency for patients.

Heavily involved in the community, Dr. White is the immediate past chair of the Georgia Health Information Network (GaHIN). He also serves as an advisory board member for Open Hand, the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, the Institute of Health Administration, and the Center for Health Information Technology at Georgia State University’s (GSU) Robinson College of Business. In addition, Dr. White has served as an adjunct professor at GSU for more than four years.

Dr. White holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Christian Brothers University, a master’s degree in information technology from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a doctorate in health care administration from the Medical University of South Carolina.

Carol Allen

A.S. CSSBB

Executive Vice President, Operations & Chief Operating Officer

Carol Allen is the executive vice president and chief operating officer at Alliant Health Group. She is responsible for the primary business units of operation, including the Medicare Network of Quality Improvement and Innovation Contractors, End-Stage Renal Disease Networks, State Medicaid and Private Insurer contracts. In addition, Allen participates in developing and executing corporate strategies designed to enhance current market share, generate new business opportunities and forge strategic partnerships.

With her experience in hospital and Medicaid contract operations, Allen is skilled in quality improvement, health care data and informatics, utilization management, oversight of Medicaid waiver programs, program integrity compliance reviews, and Nurse Aide Training and Registries. Her expertise in operations, project management and contract implementation in the health care industry span 35 years.

As the chief operating officer, Allen directs a professional, multi-disciplinary team in developing, implementing and evaluating national and local quality improvement projects and initiatives for preventive, acute, chronic, and long-term care with a focus on health equity and promoting healthy behaviors. Before joining Alliant, she managed operations for a hospital-based outpatient clinic, hospital information systems and private surgical practice. Allen has an associate’s degree in liberal arts from Gainesville College and is a Six Sigma Black Belt.

Will Battles

MHA, MBA

Chief Strategy Officer

Will Battles is the Chief Strategy Officer at Alliant Health Solutions. In his role as CSO, Battles works with the CEO in driving Alliant’s overall growth and program development strategy. He has been instrumental in Alliant’s growth across the United States through the successful pursuit of contracts with federal and state government agencies as well as commercial health plans. Battles is responsible for leading Alliant’s business development, marketing and strategic partnership initiatives.

During his more than 20 years of health industry experience, Battles has served in a variety of leadership roles in the areas of program development and operations management. In 2006, he assumed responsibility for the direction of all business development and communications activities for Alliant and its subsidiaries. Since 2010, he has played a vital role in successfully implementing and managing five state government contracts for Alliant. For these initiatives, Battles established necessary staffing, systems and operational infrastructure for Alliant in three states.

Greg Greenlow

CPA

Chief Financial And Compliance Officer

Greg is Alliant’s Chief Financial and Compliance Officer responsible for our organization’s day-to-day finance management and our corporate compliance program related to state and federal regulations and requirements, ethics and program integrity. Greg brings extensive accounting and finance experience to Alliant, with more than 25 years specializing in government contracting. He is a results-driven professional with a passion for improving financial performance through innovative improvement initiatives.

Greg joined the Alliant team as controller in 2015. Previously, he served as assistant controller of accounting at L-3 Technologies, a Fortune 500 company and leader in the development and production of visualization systems for the government, where he was responsible for managing closings, budgeting, forecasting, and developing procedures for efficiencies, control, and government compliance. In this role, Greg led the accounting, audit, and export teams, and served as the point of contact for all external government audits. Additionally, he supported new business development and export functions for programs totaling $110+ million in revenue.

Prior to that, he was a public accountant for the 9th largest accounting firm in the U.S.

Greg holds a B.S. in accounting and business administration from the University of Baltimore. He is a certified public accountant and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA).

John Slaughter

BSC

Chief Information Officer

Slaughter is Chief Information Officer at Alliant Health Solutions. Slaughter’s background in Information Technology spans over 15 years in system development and project implementations for financial services, telecommunications and health care. His experience in implementing IT systems and processes has involved interfacing with state agency personnel, third-party vendors and other regulatory and private sector entities. He is responsible for all Information Technology systems provided by Alliant to its employees and customers, including data analysis and reporting. Slaughter works with internal users and external clients to determine all IT requirements, including ongoing and ad hoc reporting, system enhancements, data migration and system interfaces.

He identifies IT initiatives, including all associated costs and dependencies. Since joining Alliant, he has overseen the implementation of solutions that support Alliant’s broad customer needs and requirements. These solutions include multiple state/multiple customer implementations of Alliant’s Quantum XL system (Alliant’s proprietary Prior Authorization System) as well as its MedGuard® system, which is used for capturing utilization and compliance review activities.

Slaughter works to ensure that IT is in alignment with the goals and needs of Alliant’s customers and employees.

Prior to joining Alliant, Slaughter worked in various customer facing technology roles for Accenture, Hewitt Associates and Saba Software. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from Tulane University and is proficient in several database formats, operating systems, languages and software applications.

Margot Wilson Townsend

CPC CHR-PHR

Chief Human Resources Officer

Margot Townsend is the Chief Human Resources Officer at Alliant Health Solutions. Townsend has more than 25 years of HR leadership experience spanning from start-up and established healthcare service and technology organizations. She is certified in HR and Performance Coaching from the University of Strathclyde, and has a Bachelor’s in business management from Pennsylvania State University.

For the last 12 years, she has been passionate about those in “employment transition” and serves the community as a resume writer and job coach, encouraging and empowering the unemployed. Additional volunteering interests include the American Heart Association, March of Dimes, Open Hand, and Chamblee Middle.

Linda Kluge

RD, LD, CPHQ

Senior Executive Director, Quality & Strategic Alliances

Linda Kluge is the senior executive director of Quality & Strategic Alliances for Alliant Health Solutions. She has more than 45 years of experience in dietetics and quality management and has held supervisory, management and clinical roles for various health care providers.

Kluge joined Alliant, then known as the Georgia Medical Care Foundation, in 2003 as a quality improvement and education specialist. She then served as a home health/nursing home/quality team manager before being promoted to the director of the Quality Improvement Organization and serving as an Alliant executive management team member. She has extensive experience working with nursing homes, hospitals and communities on initiatives for patient safety, care transitions and beneficiary protection.

Before joining Alliant, Kluge held several positions at Beverly Enterprises, a long-term care, skilled nursing and rehabilitation provider, including serving as a senior director of its quality management department. She started her dietetics career as a dietary consultant for Judy Ford Stokes & Associates in Georgia and Florida.

After earning a bachelor of science degree from Hood College in Frederick, Maryland, Kluge completed the coordinated undergraduate program in dietetics at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore and professional development in gerontology certificate from Emory.

She received the Distinguished Service Award from Aging Services of Georgia, the President’s Mentor Award from the Florida Dietetic Association, the 2018 American Health Care Association Mary K. Ousley Champion of Quality award, and the 2020 Distinguished Service Award from the Gerontology Institute at Georgia State University.

Kluge represents Alliant on the American Health Quality Association Board of Directors. Currently, she is a national, state and local member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, a member of the National Association of Healthcare Quality and the Georgia Association for Healthcare Quality, and a member of the Southeast Association of Facilitators. In addition, Kluge is a leadership team member of the Dunwoody Evening Community Bible Study.

Kimberly Rask

MD, PHD

Chief Data Officer

Dr. Kimberly J. Rask is the chief data officer at Alliant Health Solutions. She has provided clinical and analytic direction at Alliant for economic evaluations, patient safety initiatives, quality data reporting and community-based interventions since 2008. In addition, she leads a data analytics team that monitors quality improvement initiatives across health care settings, including hospitals, long-term care facilities and physician practices, using evidence-based practices and robust performance monitoring measures.

A primary care physician and health economist, Dr. Rask previously held joint appointments in health policy and management at the Rollins School of Public Health and Medicine at the Emory University School of Medicine. Her research and teaching focused on quality improvement and outcomes measurement. She has published over 100 book chapters and peer-reviewed articles on primary care practice, cost-effectiveness, quality improvement and outcomes measurement.

Dr. Rask has served on national expert panels for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Quality Forum (NQF). She currently chairs the Rural Advisory Group for the Measures Application Partnership at NQF. Dr. Rask also serves as a grant reviewer for federal programs and foundations and a journal reviewer for clinical and health services research journals. In addition, she is an advisory board member for Project Open Hand, an Atlanta-based nonprofit that helps people prevent or better manage chronic disease through healthy home-delivered meals and nutrition education.

A magna cum laude graduate of Bryn Mawr College, she attended the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. After completing her residency in internal medicine, Dr. Rask was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar and completed the doctoral program in health economics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania along with a fellowship in general internal medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

Dianne Bennett-Johnson

MD FACP

Medical Director, Medical Management Services

Dianne Bennett-Johnson, MD, FACP, is Medical Director, Medical Management Services at Alliant Health Solutions. Board certified in internal medicine, Dr. Bennett-Johnson has been a practicing general internist for more than 20 years and is founder and owner of Appointed Physicians Medical Center in Gwinnett County, a full-service primary care medical center. Before joining Alliant, Dr. Bennett-Johnson worked at the Mt. Sinai Hospital Near North Health Center and at Cook County Hospital and affiliates, both in Chicago. She was also with Peachtree Corners Medical Center in Norcross for five years.

Dr. Bennett-Johnson earned her bachelor’s degree from Illinois Wesleyan University, received her medical degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago Abraham Lincoln School of Medicine, and did her residency in internal medicine at Northwestern University, Evanston Hospital. She is certified in Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) and Basic Life Support (BLS). Dr. Bennett-Johnson is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and a member of the Medical Association of Georgia. She is affiliated with Gwinnett Medical Center and Northside Hospital, and volunteers at Redeemer’s Medical Center in Norcross, a non-profit that provides free healthcare services and awareness programs to the uninsured.

Dr. Bennett-Johnson’s volunteer efforts also include Open Hand, which uses home-delivered meals and nutrition education to help people prevent or better manage chronic disease. She was named “Georgia’s 2012 Favorite Doctor” by Coventry Health Care of Georgia. A six-person panel at Coventry reviewed the physician finalists who were nominated by their patients. Her teaching has included Mercer University School of Medicine and Emory University’s Physician Assistant Program.

Natasha Avery

DRPH, LMSW, CHES

Senior Executive Director, State & Federal Programs

Dr. Natasha Avery is the senior leader for Alliant’s program management office, focusing on the success of contract implementation and achievement of metrics. She provides operational direction and data-driven quality improvement strategies to support Alliant’s Medicare and Medicaid contracts and offers strategic direction across health settings, including nursing homes, hospitals and dialysis providers.

Dr. Avery has 20 years of health care experience and extensive knowledge in end-stage renal disease (ESRD), quality improvement, social work and public health initiatives. Prior to her current role, Dr. Avery was the executive director of Alliant’s ESRD Network 8 contract from 2017-2021 and patient services director from 2008-2016. In these roles, she was responsible for the daily operational oversight, managing grievance investigations, patient and family engagement activities, and providing technical assistance to the ESRD provider community.

Dr. Avery currently serves as a member of the board of trustees for the Mississippi Kidney Foundation and previously served on the board of directors for the National Forum of ESRD Networks. Dr. Avery has presented at numerous national and regional conferences on various topics and served on technical expert panels, advisory boards and focus groups. In 2018, she was recognized by the Mississippi Business Journal as a 50 Leading Business Women honoree. She is an active member of the Junior League of Jackson, participating in numerous volunteer projects to promote children’s health, early literacy, and social development.

Dr. Avery obtained a doctorate in public health, a licensed master prepared social worker, a certified health education specialist, and a certified professional in health care quality.

Mary Albin

BS, CPHQ

Executive Director, ESRD Alliant Networks

Mary Albin is Alliant Health Solutions’ executive director of the End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Networks 8 and 14 under the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services contract. Network 8 serves ESRD patients in Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee, and Network 14 serves ESRD patients in Texas. Albin is responsible for the overall strategic and operational oversight of the Network contracts operations.

Albin’s experience in health care operations management, with an emphasis on end-stage renal care, spans more than 30 years. Before joining Alliant in 2017, Albin served as DaVita Kidney Care’s group facility administrator in the Dallas area. She managed nursing services and patient care operations for the organization’s hemodialysis facilities.

Albin holds a bachelor’s degree in organizational leadership from Chapman University and is a Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality from the Healthcare Quality Certification Commission. She is a governor-appointed member of the Chronic Kidney Disease Task Force of Texas. In addition, she serves as a National Forum of ESRD Networks Medical Advisory Council member and vice chair for the Executive Director Advisory Council.

Our Leadership

Meet the Team Moving Health Care Forward.

Dennis White

Carol Allen

Will Battles

Greg Greenlow

John Slaughter

Margot Wilson Townsend

Linda Kluge

Kimberly Rask

Dianne Bennett-Johnson

Natasha Avery

Mary Albin

How We Help

Care Management

Quality Improvement

Program Integrity

Education & Training

Dennis White

Carol Allen

Will Battles

Greg Greenlow

John Slaughter

Margot Wilson Townsend

Linda Kluge

Kimberly Rask

Dianne Bennett-Johnson

Natasha Avery

Mary Albin

Government Agencies & Leaders

Health Care Patients & Beneficiaries

Commercial Health Insurers & Employers

Health Care Systems & Providers

Care Management

Health Care Quality Improvement

Program Integrity

Education & Training

A Culture of Service

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