Dr. John Rugge is a practicing family physician and the Executive Chairman and Founder of Hudson Headwaters Health Network, a Federally Qualified Health Center that is the only local medical provider for much of the Adirondacks and the primary care safety-net for the Glens Falls “micropolitan” area. Over the years, Dr. Rugge has served on numerous health policy councils in Albany and Washington. He is currently Chair of the Planning Committee for the NYS Public Health and Health Planning Council and is serving on the workgroups for the NYS Department of Health that are defining advanced models of primary care and value-based payment models for the reimbursement of health care services generally. As organizer of the Adirondack Health Institute and the Adirondacks ACO, Hudson Headwaters is working to deploy these new models across the North Country of New York.