Jackson Healthcare, which ranks among the largest US healthcare staffing providers, announced named former US Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price to its advisory board. Price, who is also a medical doctor, had served as Health and Human Services Secretary in the Trump administration from February through September of last year.

Bloomberg Politics reported Price stepped down amid probes of his use of taxpayer-funded jets while in office and that Price was a leading congressional critic of the Affordable Care Act.

Price was elected to the US House of Representatives in 2004 and served as a member there from 2005 to 2017. He was chair of the House Budget Committee in 2015 and 2017.

“Nobody has as profound an understanding of the national healthcare landscape as Dr. Price,” said Richard Jackson, chairman and CEO of Jackson Healthcare. “Tom has exhibited an unwavering commitment to preserving the patient-physician relationship. That mindset, along with his physician, business and policy experience, will make him an invaluable addition to our board.”

Price entered private practice in 1984 and was one of the founders of Resurgens Orthopedics and was later elected to the Georgia Senate, where he served from 1997 to 2005. While he was a member of the state Senate, he became an assistant professor at Emory University, starting in 2002. He was also medical director of the Orthopedic Clinic at Grady Memorial Hospital, overseeing the training of resident doctors. He had received both his bachelor’s and M.D. degrees from the University of Michigan and completed his residency in orthopedic surgery at Emory University.

“I am honored to join the advisory board at Jackson Healthcare,” Price said. “Jackson Healthcare’s mission of working to improve patient care is wholly aligned with the work I have done for over four decades, and I look forward to helping them navigate the always changing healthcare environment.”