Jacob Victory

Associate Clinical Professor of Public Service and Director of Health Law and Strategy Program

Contact Details

jov200@nyu.edu

212.998.7550

Office

NYU Wagner, 105 East 17th Street, Third Floor, New York, NY 10003

Bio
Courses

Bio

Jacob Victory is Associate Clinical Professor of Public Service at NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, and Director of the Health Law and Strategy Program, a joint Masters of Science degree sponsored by NYU Wagner and NYU Law. Professor Victory also serves as an advisor to Recora Health, a technology company focusing on home-based cardiac care therapy and recovery, as well as to Essen Health, one of New York State's largest home and community based organizations, with over 35 medical practices, Medicaid Health Home case management, and a leading House Calls programs, among others. Professor Victory teaches courses within NYU Wagner's core and health Masters of Public Administration (M.P.A) and Masters of Health Administration (M.H.A) programs, and, in a joint-partnership between NYU Wagner and NYU Law, in the new Masters of Science in Health Law and Strategy (MSHLS) program. Professor Victory teaches graduate courses including Introduction to Public Policy, Health Policy, Health Systems and Health Policy I, Advanced Topics in Health Policy, Health Equity, Equity and Ethics, and Introduction to Health Policy and Management.

Professor Victory has over 26 years experience leading health systems, managed care plans, and regional healthcare divisions serving medically and socio-economically complex patients and health plan members, primarily serving Medicaid, Medicaid Long Term Care, and Dually Eligible beneficiaries. Most recently he was President of Medicaid Home Care for BAYADA Home Health Care with responsibilities in nine states, serving 5,900 long term care patients daily through an employee base of 6,000 team members. Prior to this role, Professor Victory was Senior Vice President of Medicaid Long-Term Care (LTC) at the Centene Corporation where he led Centene’s Florida long term care market, and was responsible for $2.1 billion in revenues generated to support 50,000 medically complex patients. He was also responsible for the integration of Wellcare's LTC health plan into Centene Florida with additional responsibilities serving 11,000 members and $500 million in revenues.

Before joining Centene, Professor Victory was Chief Operating Officer of The New Jewish Home, one of New York State's oldest post-acute health care systems for older adults needing facility-based, home, and community based care. Professor Victory also served as Senior Vice President of Strategy, Product and Member at the Health Republic Insurance of New York which became the nation's largest Consumer Oriented and Operated Plan (COOP) health plan (funded by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on the New York State of Health (the Exchange). Prior roles include Vice President of Medical Operations and Program Development for Centerlight Program for All-inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) program, where he was responsible for 12 medical practices and the development and implementation of innovative programs in Transitional Care, Behavioral Health, Palliative Care, Pastoral Care and Social Work. At VNS Health, Professor Victory's last position was Vice President of Performance Management Projects, focusing on implementing reform-based care models; he also led VNS Health's pediatric home health care division, and served in operational roles in rehabilitation therapy and as the President and CEO's Chief of Staff for six years. Professor Victory started his career in strategic planning holding various positions at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and Cabrini Medical Center after completing his management residencies at the Weill-Cornell Physician Organization and Clara Maass Medical Center.

Professor Victory has had several health management case studies published in a graduate school textbook: Health Management Services: Cases, Readings and Commentary. In 2023, he was commissioned by the Association of University Programs in Health Adminisration (AUPHA) to publish an environmenal survey of higher education trends, focused on healthcare, in the United States. In 2009, he completed a year-long leadership fellowship at the CORO Leadership Center, focusing on New York City’s public school system. Professor Victory currently serves as an Advisory Board member of airNYC, and has served on the Board of Directors for the Home Care Association of New York State and its Foundation, Harvard Medical School's Graduate Program in Management, and Danza Espana/American Spanish Dance Theater. Professor Victory holds a BA in English Literature, with honors, and a minor in Finance from Rutgers University, and an MPA in Health Policy and Management from NYU's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, where he has served as an Adjunct Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management for 18 years.

Courses

Fall 2024

HPAM-GP.1830.: Introduction to Health Policy and Management

Required for MPA Health students. This introductory course is designed to familiarize students with basic concepts and ideas concerning the distribution of health and illness in society, the organization of the health care system, and the relationship of one to the other. We begin by considering the evolution of the U.S. health care system and of health policy. We then present an international perspective on the U.S. health care system with an emphasis on the Affordable Care Act, alternative government roles, current challenges and the future of the health care system. In the second part of the course, we explore divergent perspectives for analyzing health and health care: clinical, epidemiological, economic, sociological/cultural and public health. In the third part, we focus on, selected issues in HPAM: the challenge of mental health, variations in medical practice and the quality of care, health care rationing and access to care. Finally, we conclude with a discussion of how practitioners in the field of HPAM should respond to the growing awareness of the social determinants of health and the growth of the medical-industrial complex for HPAM.

Class readings cover major topics in the study of health and health care delivery: the organization and financing of health care systems; cost and access to health care; health policy challenges and the Affordable Care Act; the roles of government in health systems and policy; the epidemiology of health and medical care, economic and ethical issues related to health care rationing, the social determinants of health. Along with covering these subjects, we emphasize the value of understanding diverse disciplinary perspectives, the challenges of meeting the varied (and often conflicting) needs and motivations of health care system stakeholders, and the ways in which the United States health care system differs from those of other wealthy nations.

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Fall 2023

CORE-GP.1022.: Introduction to Public Policy

Introduction to Public Policy covers a wide range of topics, from the norms and values informing democratic policymaking to the basics of cost-benefit and other tools of policy analysis. Though emphases will differ based on instructor strengths, all sections will address the institutional arrangements for making public policy decisions, the role of various actors-including nonprofit and private-sector professionals-in shaping policy outcomes, and the fundamentals (and limits) of analytic approaches to public policy.

Note: Students who have not taken an American Government course, or have not taken the course in many years, are strongly encouraged to brush up on knowledge of the basic design and functions of the governmental units in the United States.

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