Executive Leadership

As Chief Executive Officer for Passport Health Plan, Mark is responsible for all aspects of the 170,000-member Medicaid health plan.  The National Committee for Quality Assurance ranked Passport Health Plan in the top 25 of all Medicaid health plans in the country for the last seven consecutive years.  The health plan is currently ranked #13.  The counties of service include Breckinridge, Bullitt, Carroll, Grayson, Hardin, Henry, Jefferson, Larue, Marion, Meade, Nelson, Oldham, Shelby, Spencer, Trimble and Washington.   Passport Health Plan is sponsored by the University of Louisville Medical School Practice Association, University of Louisville Hospital, Jewish and St. Mary’s Healthcare, Norton Healthcare, and the Louisville/Jefferson County Primary Care Association, which includes the Jefferson County Health Department and Louisville's two federally qualified health centers, Family Health Centers and Park DuValle. 

Prior to joining Passport Health Plan, Mark was a Director with Dean Dorton Allen Ford and was Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Jewish Hospital & St. Mary's HealthCare. Mark spent 20 years in the health care practice of Ernst & Young, his last five years as a Partner and leader of its Kentucky Health Care Consulting practice. He has a broad range of experience in all aspects of health care management, finance and payment systems.

Mark has been an active member of the Louisville business and philanthropic community, most recently serving as Chair of the Health Enterprises Network and Treasurer of the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky.

Mr. Carter received his Bachelor of Science in Accounting from the University of Kentucky. He is a former Fellow in the Health Care Financial Management Association and is a graduate of the Leadership Louisville Program.  He is a Certified Public Accountant. Mark resides in Louisville, Kentucky, with his wife, Kellie. They have three children and three grandchildren.

Bill Wagner, MSSW, is Executive Director of the Family Health Centers Inc. in Louisville, Kentucky.  Employed by FHC for more than 20 years, he directs the operations of five community health center sites that serve more than 36,000 individuals annually.  FHC is a federally qualified health center funded under the Community Health Centers and Health Care for the Homeless programs.  A majority of the patients served by FHC are uninsured with incomes below poverty.

Mr. Wagner is one of the founders of the Region 3 Medicaid managed care plan known as Passport Health Plan.  He is currently the Chairman of the Board for Passport Health Plan and was previously the Chairman of the Region 3 Partnership Council.  Mr. Wagner has previously worked as a clinical social worker and health planner.  He is a graduate of the University of Dayton and the University of Louisville where he earned a Masters Degree in Social Work with concentration in comprehensive health services.