I wanted to join Adam in co-founding Honest after watching my dad struggle to coordinate my grandmother’s care following her Parkinson’s diagnosis. Grandma Yvette has always been an exceptionally strong person and a meticulous organizer, growing out of her fight to come to the United States from Syria as a teenager. But, even she needed help coordinating care across all of her doctors. Medicare pays for her care, but my father needs to keep track of it all. For too many Americans, a prescription from a neurologist that doesn’t pair well with a medication prescribed by a gastroenterologist means a life-threatening side effect and a trip to the emergency room. At Honest, we aim to change that.

My motivation to start Honest came from watching my Dad as a primary care physician. Like many other doctors, at one point in his career he began to experience burnout from high levels of stress, not being able to take care of his patients the way he wanted, and not being compensated properly, which led him to go into hospital administration. Eventually, he was able to go back to his first love, taking care of patients. I founded Honest because of my belief in empowering primary care doctors, and through the experience with my own father, I know this is the best way for people to receive care.

It’s not often that you get the opportunity to co-found a company that changes the way whole populations receive care. I wanted to help start Honest because I believed our mission would help patients have the kind of care and respect they deserve. If we are going to best take care of our patients, we have to get deep into the community and become a crucial part of the neighborhood. Honest works to improve patients’ lives – I’m grateful to be part of the team that enables this vision.

Healthcare is in my blood and the lens with which I view the world, starting with my mother, a pediatrics nurse, and my father, a solo family practitioner.  I learned the value of team and the grit of the clinician in an ever-changing healthcare landscape.  In medical school I never imagined being a surgeon but always wanted to have an impact.  I chose surgery because it provided the greatest challenge, and that same sentiment drew me to begin operating on the healthcare system.  I’ve experienced the agony of patients dying in my arms, and the joy of rendering patients cancer-free.  Adding a business degree while carrying a busy private practice allowed me to understand more about the system that needed transformation.  Ultimately, creating the largest possible impact drew me to healthcare leadership.  My clinical experience, business training, and love of developing teams led me to Honest.  Together we will transform the system, empowering patients and clinicians to reach their full potential in life and in clinical practice.

With over twenty years of experience working in managed care with a focus on value-based care, I’ve experienced firsthand the complexities and challenges that face providers and those they serve in the US today. And through that experience, I’ve developed a great passion for rethinking routine and building solutions to improve lives and the systems that serve us. Together with our partners, we will design, develop, and deploy products and services to improve care and transform the healthcare experience, while reducing costs and removing barriers – ultimately making it easier for providers to practice, and for members to live happy and healthy lives.

I began my medical career post-residency joining a group of my attendings in a medicine practice within a tertiary hospital. Caring for countless patients in the ICU and medical floors, I witnessed the lack of shared decision making with patients about what their preferences toward procedures or aggressive measures. Too often, insufficient coordination of care post-discharge resulted in unnecessary readmissions or poor outcomes. This frustration powered my decision to join a novel health plan, CareMore, providing an interdisciplinary care model for seniors with chronic conditions. We made incredible advancements in care outcomes for patients across the inpatient and clinic settings but struggled to focus the necessary resources in the home for the most frail, homebound population. Although my father was not a CareMore member, he was declining amongst end stage kidney disease. I witnessed countless episodes of poor communication across his care team, delays in care, and reactionary interventions that created more problems than helped. My mother was not prepared to be a navigator of a complex system on silo’d specialists, hospitals, dialysis centers, and home care teams. Despite my daily involvement the system was built more to care for patients like my father via episodic interventions rather than seamless longitudinal care. Landmark Health offered me the opportunity to advance the way frail or homebound patients with conditions were managed. The missing link for me at Landmark was that the care model is delivered by a medical group who is not the PCP. The PCP and payor relationship at Honest Medical Group affords the greatest opportunity to impact care coordination across all parts of the healthcare system via default recognition as quarterback to a patient’s care. Honest will deliver enhanced versions of what CareMore and Landmark sought to achieve; coordinated interdisciplinary care across all verticals of an ever-complicated health care system. The honor to be a clinical leader of an amazing team of bright, mission-driven individuals combined with the confidence that this model will deliver much needed care improvements for patients like my father, is one I could only accept with open arms.

When I first learned about Honest,  I knew immediately this is where I need to be, as I was determined to be a part of an organization that is committed to transforming healthcare. It has been heart breaking to watch my grandparents navigate our complex healthcare system. They deserved better and so do others.

The talent at Honest is unmatched. The team is mission-drive and committed to making a difference. Together we will transform the healthcare experience by allowing providers to do what they do best and to improve outcomes for members. Honest is making a difference in this world and I am honored to be part of it.

Having served as a legal and healthcare executive with a variety of healthcare organizations and insurers, I have witnessed the many ways in which our current system fails to meet the needs of people with Medicare – our most vulnerable and treasured population. But Honest is here to change that, and I am so excited to be part a transformation that engages the provider community directly while recognizing the crucial importance of an effective physician-patient relationship. We see innovation and transformation not just as words but as a driving force for change, while blending provider and payer functions in a way that aligns both quality outcomes and financial performance. The team we’ve assembled at Honest reinforces my belief that through talent, passion, and drive, transformation is not only achievable – it’s a certainty. In leading the Legal organization, we will support the business and overall strategy to deliver the results our providers and patients deserve. As we look to the future, I know Honest will be at the forefront of positive change in healthcare.

I come to Honest with more than 25 years technology experience, spending the last 15 years specifically focused on making healthcare operations more secure, efficient, scalable, and interoperable while to striving to lessen the burden on clinicians at the point of care. I have personally seen issues in missing data and poor care planning lead to misdiagnoses and delayed recovery of my loved ones – and as a result, I am drawn to the mission of improving how healthcare is delivered. I am thrilled to now be a part of the Honest team, to carry the mantle of bringing all our members’ information together correctly and deploying technologies that bolster the teams who provide them with the best care possible.

I have been privileged to serve the senior population for over 25 years, and most recently within the largest city in America with the highest amount of poverty. While it was home to some of the world’s best hospitals and doctors, the people who needed us most were struggling. Despite everyone’s best intentions and hard work, the state of the system was highly fragmented. When we decided to test a new model of care, where a health plan collaborated with doctors, we saw great things happen.  

Honest is taking that “magic” and making it even better by thinking bigger! Honest is focused on ensuring that patients get the access they need when they need it, with equity, integrity, and collaboration, while showing genuine respect for everyone in the system. With deep integration, an aligned mission, and most importantly, a focus on the people who really need us, Honest is positioned to truly change the landscape of health care.

I take pride in doing what’s right, even when doing so proves to be the most challenging path. At Honest, the clear and genuine commitment to doing what’s right, mixed with our passion to transform the service and care provided to Medicare beneficiaries through empowering our provider community inspires me. I feel honored and blessed to be a part of such a talented team that shares this common purpose to improve the lives, health, and happiness of those we serve.

Since the inception of the program over 15 years ago, I have focused my career on pricing and filing Medicare Advantage plans. Working in consulting for the last 18+ years, my focus had always been on increasing market share and profit margins – not necessarily members satisfaction or experience. Thinking back, I’m sorry to say that I declined the offer when Honest reached out initially. But the conversation stuck with me, and I decided that the last job in my career should be doing something that matters. I’m now proud to be working for a company focused on transforming how we care for both patients and providers – a company where stakeholder satisfaction isn’t an afterthought, it’s the central focus.

I have been involved in health care for over three decades, working with companies focused on improving patient care coordination. However, the pandemic highlighted the deficiencies in our delivery system, both for patients and providers. Personally, I found my high-risk parents in this situation – who needed additional services that just weren’t available to them. I also saw the frustration of providers that did not have the wrap-around resources for their high-risk patients and how discouraged the providers became under a fee-for-volume reimbursement model that placed pressure on making up the income lost during the pandemic. Providers began to leave the practice of medicine. All of this was incredibly unsettling to me.

When I took my first call with Rubicon/Honest, my ears perked with the comment of building a next-generation Kaiser model. I believe the Honest approach can be the solution to transforming how we care for patients and for those who are delivering the care. In my time here, I have felt reenergized by our mission and the team. We are going to change how care is provided.

I’ve been privileged to work in healthcare for more than 25 years for some of the largest national and regional health plans, but it wasn’t until my mother started interacting with the healthcare system and her Medicare Advantage plan more regularly did I realize firsthand how disconnected and impersonal it can be. I knew there had to be a better way to support seniors by supporting their physicians with additional clinical capabilities, technology, and home-based services.   When the Honest and Rubicon team described how our capabilities complemented those of the local primary care physicians (PCPs) to produce better outcomes and patient experiences, I was intrigued. When the team explained how we leverage these PCP relationships to launch special need plans (SNPs) with unique benefits and tailored models of care to create condition-specific Kaisers, I knew I wanted to contribute to that vision. I am extremely blessed to work with this team that is focused on supporting physicians and their patients, as we transform and personalize the way care is financed and delivered.

The opportunity to work at Honest was a privilege for me. My goal was always to work with the patient and the primary care physician to provide multiple services that focus on patients needs in a very holistic approach. My parents were blesse d with a primary care physician who would come to their home if needed, he was part of our family and a trusted ally. I knew he was busy and tired, but he always took time to answer our questions and coordinate care. I want every patient to have this type of service, with Honest we are partnering with the primary care community to empower them to care for patients the way they have always wanted to.

I’ve worked in healthcare for almost 20 years, and I have seen a fragmented ecosystem – especially for those with chronic conditions and complex needs. I firmly believe this needs to change. When I first learned about Honest, I was immediately drawn to the mission of helping improve care for people who have often been forgotten or underserved. I’m thrilled to have found a company where we can connect directly with our patients and providers, to listen to them, and to care for them the way they deserve.  

I grew up in a medical family with two physician parents. Medical conversations were common in our home, as were comments about the honor and privilege of caring for the sick and relieving pain and suffering. I only truly appreciated these comments when I became a physician myself helping those who needed my help. Unfortunately, I also saw the dark side of healthcare. I saw executives getting caught up in the complexity of the business of healthcare to the point of forgetting the true mission of their organizations. I saw physicians and nurses too tired and overworked to notice the confusion, fear, and hopelessness in their patients’ eyes when they are overwhelmed by their illness and uncertain of their options. All this got very personal when my mother was diagnosed with cancer. Even as a physician, she could not get her care team to listen and understand her wishes. Thankfully, she had a family of healthcare insiders who ensured that her wishes were heard and honored. Not every patient is so lucky! I joined Honest because our entire team is dedicated to making sure that every patient is heard and understood. A team committed to providing care and relief to the best of our ability. I’m proud of the work of our team and can imagine nothing more meaningful that I could be doing.

I’ve been fortunate to spend the past 15 years with innovative healthcare organizations across provider, digital health, and technology-enabled services areas. Through these experiences, I have developed an appreciation for how important caring for the most vulnerable, chronically ill patients is to the long-term sustainability of our healthcare system, the growing complexity and increasing administrative burden independent providers face, and how much opportunity still exists in the transition from fee-for-service to value-based care. I joined Honest Medical Group because this business was purpose-built to tackle these challenges with one of the most committed, experienced teams in healthcare. I’m honored to support this important mission.