Glenn Stanton, MA

Glenn Stanton, MA
Senior Vice President, Business Development,
Magellan Health Services, Inc.
Public Sector Solutions

Glenn Stanton is the Senior Vice President of Business Development for Magellan’s Public Solutions, where he develops behavioral health business opportunities with state and local government organizations throughout the nation and has led successful efforts in Arizona, Iowa, Florida, Pennsylvania, Nebraska, Louisana, Virginia and New York. Glenn brings to Magellan 30 years of experience in the mental health, developmental disabilities, addiction, aging and disability fields at the county, state and federal levels.

Prior to joining the Magellan team, Glenn served as director and deputy director of the Disabled and Elderly Health Programs Group of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in Baltimore, where he represented the agency on the President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health. He led development and implementation of self-directed health care and quality initiatives for home- and community-based services and was responsible for review and approval of state requests for managed mental health carve-out programs — accomplishments which were recognized with an “Excellence in Leadership” award from CMS and three Department of Health & Human Services Honor Awards.

Before joining CMS, Glenn worked for six years for the State of Michigan Department of Community Health, where he led the development of quality management and performance measurement systems for public sector behavioral health and developmental disabilities systems and the development of the State’s 1915b/c combination waiver to CMS. He also served as the executive director for a three-county community mental health program in Michigan with 750 employees and a $40+ million budget.

Glenn holds a Bachelor’s Degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo and a Master’s Degree in Psychology from Michigan State University.