Health Alliance Plan, a Michigan-based, nonprofit health plan that provides health coverage to more than 670,000 members and organizations, has hired Dawn Geisert to the newly-created role of chief compliance officer.

In this capacity, Geisert and her team will implement a coordinated regulatory compliance program, oversee regulatory submissions and reporting activities, assess compliance risk, and develop training programs to address compliance. She will also interface with the audit and compliance committee of the board of directors.

Prior to being appointed CCO, she served in the office of the general counsel at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, where she was principal counsel leading the government programs practice group legal team.