Jacob Asher, MD

Jacob Asher is a dynamic, passionate, and effective physician executive who has sought to improve health care outcomes by leveraging extensive strategic, operational, and management experience in top-tier, market-leading organizations. Proven ability to develop and implement innovations in health care delivery from the patient, provider, and health plan side to drive better outcomes, lower cost, and improved consumer experience. Has served as the clinical face of health plans to the medical community, and multi-stakeholder collaboratives, led clinical advisor to business leadership on strategies to improve health plan performance, enhance member and provider experience through collaboration and partnerships, and reduce unwarranted variation from evidence-based care. Recognized for superior oral and written communication skills, leadership of clinical and non-clinical teams, mentorship to emerging physician executives, and an ability to quickly develop credibility with physicians, clients, and matrix partners.

Specialties: innovation and healthcare policy, care management vendor partnership strategy, leveraging emerging technology to enhance physician and patient experience, value-based reimbursement innovation including bundled and reference-based payments, optimizing capitated medical group performance, accountable care organization operation, driving health care strategy post ACA implementation, coordinating with industry stakeholders and regulators, creating and operationalizing evidence-based medical insurance coverage policy, delivering sales presentations to new and existing corporate clients (self-funded and fully insured products), providing clinical consultations to new and existing client account teams, advising companies on best practices for improving employee health and optimizing service utilization, strong management across clinical and non-clinical teams. Regulatory compliance and plan audits, health plan board of director membership.