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About the Company

Molina Healthcare is a FORTUNE 500 company that is focused exclusively on government-sponsored health care programs for families and individuals who qualify for government sponsored health care. Molina Healthcare contracts with state governments and serves as a health plan providing a wide range of quality health care services to families and individuals. Molina Healthcare offers health plans in California, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin and Puerto Rico. Molina also offers a Medicare product and has been selected in several states to participate in duals demonstration projects to manage the care for those eligible for both Medicaid and Medicare. Molina Healthcare owns and operates primary care clinics in California, Florida, New Mexico, Utah, Washington and Virginia. Our medical offices provide individuals who qualify for government sponsored programs with medical care including prenatal care and immunizations. Molina Healthcare`s subsidiary, Molina Medicaid Solutions (MMS), provides business processing and information technology administrative services to Medicaid agencies. MMS currently holds contracts with the states of Idaho, Louisiana, Maine, New Jersey, and West Virginia, as well as a contract to provide drug rebate administration services for the Florida Medicaid Pharmacy program.

About the Person

Rick Hopfer is the Chief Information Officer at Molina Healthcare, Inc. As CIO, Rick manages and leads the information technology department to align enterprise objectives, programs, and strategies. Rick has extensive experience leading large, complex IT operations in a variety of industries. Most recently, Rick worked for Sony Pictures Entertainment, where he served as CIO for four years and as Senior Vice President of Information Technology prior to that. Before Sony, he served as CIO for Homestore.com and then as chief technology officer (CTO) for Homestore International. Rick also has held senior IT leadership positions at Simon and Schuster, Bankers Trust Company, and Aetna Life and Casualty, among others. Rick holds a bachelor's degree in computer information systems from Arizona State University.