Debbie Costin

Health Care Consultant

Ms. Costin has spent the past twenty-five years working on health care access and financing issues. Beginning in 1978, she worked for eight years with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Colorado developing new insurance products and provider reimbursement policies. For the next six years, Ms. Costin was Director of Finance for the University of Colorado Hospital, and then became the first Executive Director of Colorado Community Managed Care Network, an association of community health centers which joined three hospitals to form Colorado Access – an HMO for Medicaid beneficiaries.

In March 1995, Ms. Costin established her own consulting practice – managing projects related to strategic planning, program development, practice management, quality improvement, and advocacy. Her special interests include improving access for underserved populations and strengthening the financial sustainability of community-based providers. She was instrumental in establishing the Colorado Association for School-Based Health Care in 1996 and led that group until late 2001. She also assisted the National Assembly on School-Based Health Care in developing its principles, goals, and performance evaluation standards, and completed the first-ever national school-based health center finance study. In March 2007, Ms. Costin returned to the Colorado Association for School-Based Health Care to become its Executive Director.