Dr. Halaas is responsible for providing leadership and oversight for quality management activities, including quality monitoring, fraud, waste and abuse, physician reporting and medical policy development. She also provides clinical support for Utilization Management, Case Management, Disease Management and Medical Policy.

Before joining BCBSND, Dr. Halaas worked as Senior Associate Dean for Education at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Grand Forks, N.D. She previously held leadership positions in interprofessional education, rural health education and family medicine education at the University of Minnesota, in Minneapolis, Minn. Dr. Halaas also served as a medical director at HealthPartners in Bloomington, Minn.

A native of Moorhead, Minn., Dr. Halaas earned her bachelor's degree from Concordia College in Moorhead. She achieved a Doctor of Medicine degree from Harvard Medical School in Boston, Mass., and went on to earn an MBA from the University of St Thomas in Minneapolis, Minn.

About Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota

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