National University

University of Southern California

Laguna Hills High School

Partner: Advising C Level Health Care Executives & Investors. Contracting is your Company's Life Blood - Do it right!

At Blue Zones Health we're helping people live better, longer through an innovative value-based primary care model that incorporates insights from the world's longest-lived people as part of a holistic treatment plan. In my role at Blue Zones Health, I work with our partner Health Plans on delivering this for our collective membership.  Blue Zones Knox-Keene licensed health plan allows physicians to access full value based economics, providing a mechanism to sustainably maximize patient outcomes. 

Healthly May 2023 - June 2024
Blue Zones effective July 2024

Blue Zones Health

President

Athena Group Consulting is a Health Care Consulting firm specializing in strategic direction for organizations including Risk Strategies, Licensing, Managed Care, Contracting & Operations.  We are experts at Improving Contracting and Operational Results for providers such as Hospital’s, IPA’s and MSO Clients. I also serve as an advisor for private equity partners and investors on Health Care related transactions. I have also served as interim CEO or COO for companies looking for a seasoned executive to fill a temporary or part-time need.

Athena Group Consulting, LLC

President & Chief Executive Officer

The Mazars Healthcare Consulting Group offers clients a powerful combination of service and results-oriented strategy to help them meet their business goals and improve performance, which is more important than ever as the business of healthcare continues to quickly evolve.  As a leading change facilitator in this era of sweeping health care reform, the Mazars Health Care Consulting Group offers health care payers and providers a powerful combination of service and results-oriented strategy to help them meet their business goals, overcome challenges, and improve performance. 

Mazars USA LLP is a high-performing accounting, tax and consulting firm with significant national presence in strategic US geographies. Since 1921, our dedicated professionals have leveraged technical industry expertise to develop customized solutions for clients, create value, and Optimize their performance. We offer a broad array of industry specialists providing services to growth-oriented enterprises and individuals. As the independent US member firm of Mazars Group, we deliver seamless access to the expertise of 20,000 professionals in 86 countries.

At local and global levels, we are proud of our value-added services, building lasting relationships with our clients and communities. For more information, visit us at www.mazarsusa.com.

Mazars in US

Principal, HealthCare Consulting

COPE Health Solutions

Consultant

MedVision, Inc.

Advisory Council Member

Our mission is to attract and retain customers by exemplary customer service, exceptional claims processing and utilization and quality review. We are committed to achieving these goals by always keeping our focus on the customer and with strict adherence to policies and procedures and use of state of the art software programs.

MHM Healthcare

Vice President

ABL Organization

Member

Chief Executive Officer for Maverick Medical Group. Maverick Medical Group is an Independent Physician Association (IPA) formed by ApolloMed to serve Medicare, Dual Eligible, Commercial and Medi-Cal patients residing in the Greater Los Angeles area.

Headquartered in Glendale, California, ApolloMed is a leading provider of physician-driven integrated healthcare management services, fueled by its commitment to provide exceptional multi-disciplinary care in the communities it serves in Southern and Central California. ApolloMed is addressing the healthcare needs of the nation’s largest population center by leveraging its integrated healthcare delivery platform comprised of three affiliated and complementary physician groups: ApolloMed Hospitalists, ApolloMed ACO (Accountable Care Organization) and Maverick Medical Group (Independent Physician Association). This platform combines hospitalist medicine, critical care medicine, case management and transition management that enable healthcare organizations to engage in performance payments for utilization efficiency, quality of care objectives and shared accountability arrangements. ApolloMed strives to improve medical outcomes with high quality, cost efficient care.

Maverick Medical Group

Chief Executive Officer

Apollo Medical Holdings, Inc.

Vice President of Managed Care

Prospect Medical Holdings, Inc.

Chief Operating Officer

Oversee operations for the Companies MSI population in Orange County

Comprehensive Care Solutions

Oversee Health Plan and Physician Contracting, Business Development, Marketing and other operational areas for Prospect Medical and its related entities.  Responsible for Managed Care strategy in New Markets working with Local Health Plans and owned Hospitals.

At Prospect Medical we provide quality, coordinated healthcare and physician services in Southern California and San Antonio, Texas. We own and operate seven hospitals, with a total of approximately 1,056 licensed beds, and a network of 18 specialty and primary care clinics. Our hospitals are located in diverse, high density population areas within Southern California and San Antonio and maintain leading market positions in the areas they serve. We also manage the provision of physician services through Medical Groups that consist of physician networks of primary care and specialty physicians. Our Medical Groups provide physician services to approximately 181,400 enrollees. Based on our enrollment, our combined Medical Groups represent one of the largest in Southern California and has contracts with nearly all the major (non-Kaiser) HMOs operating in the region. We believe the coordination of our hospitals and Medical Groups will create an efficient healthcare delivery system that positions us to drive growth and profitability.

We operate both our hospitals and Medical Groups by applying highly disciplined, data-driven management to the provision of quality care. Through this in-depth and data-driven approach to analysis and application of various operational and financial metrics, we have been able to achieve a highly-efficient cost structure which enables us to adjust our operations to provide services that generate higher margins and revenue growth. Our management's expertise in executing our operating model has enabled us to increase profitability across a diverse mix of payors and the flexibility to adapt to economic and regulatory changes.

Athena Group Consulting is a Health Care Consulting firm specializing in strategic direction for organizations including Improving Contracting and Operational Results for providers such as Hospital’s, IPA’s and MSO Clients.  I also serve as an advisor for private equity partners and investors on Health Care related transactions.  I have also served as interim CEO or COO for companies looking for a seasoned executive to fill a temporary or part-time need.

Cerius Interim Executive Solutions

Principal

Responsible for profiling the competitive environment for entire Western Region.  Also responsible for network development within assigned territory for new and existing products.  Oversight of staff in multiple locations.

Mark Marten, FACHE