Tom Tantillo, MSW, MBA

Tom Tantillo, Advisory Board Member, brings 30 years of experience as a senior level manager in non-profit, academic, governmental, and for-profit health care and human service organizations on both the provider and payer side. He is a seasoned behavioral healthcare executive with expertise in entrepreneurial organizational design and development, start-up and operations, proposal and business development and risk based third party contracting. Mr. Tantillo currently holds the position of Vice President at Penn Foundation Behavioral Health where he is the chief marketing and business development officer. Before his transition to VP he was Executive Director of Penn Foundation’s Recovery Center, responsible for top rated ambulatory and residential substance use disorder programs. Concurrently, Mr. Tantillo is a subject matter expert for NIATx and the National Council for Behavioral Health, advising providers on behavioral health financing, payer contracting and managing culture change associated with migrating from program funding to fee-for-service or P4P. He recently retired after 17 years on the adjunct faculty of the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice. Before his tenure at Penn Foundation, Mr. Tantillo served for 12 years as the Chief Administrative and Financial Officer of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). In this role he merged the operations and culture of three precursor organizations, developed a model billing compliance program for CHOP, and planned and oversaw installation of multiple information systems. Prior to his position at CHOP, Mr. Tantillo was the principal at Managed Healthcare Solutions. In this consulting practice, he led the design and implementation for the complete infrastructure of a 200,000-member managed behavioral health organization (MBHO). Preceding his consultation practice with Managed Healthcare Solutions, as Senior Vice President of Managed Care Programs at Northwestern Human Services (NHS), Mr. Tantillo directed strategic efforts to move corporate focus from a traditional public sector program funded model to fee-for-service reimbursement, and developed an internal management service organization for contracting and intake of NHS’s Pennsylvania based programs. Earlier in his career, Mr. Tantillo developed and was Executive Director of a Physician Hospital Organization that was a partnership between major Philadelphia acute care and psychiatric health systems, and participated in the genesis of managed behavioral health care in the Eastern U.S. as Vice President for Provider Relations at AGCA, one of the pre-curser MBHO’s that came to be Magellan. Mr. Tantillo earned his MBA at La Salle University, his MSW at the University of Pennsylvania, and his BA at Villanova University.