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Risant Health, a nonprofit organization created by Kaiser Foundation Hospitals in 2023 and dedicated to increasing access to value-based care, has filled out its leadership ranks, naming Jessica Bartell, M.D., M.S., M.B.A., its chief medical information officer. Also Deepak Sadagopan has joined Risant as business lead, value-based platform.
KP Medical Foundation physician Chris Cable, M.D., and Washington Permanente Medical Group physician Marc Mora, M.D., have been named clinical leads for the value-based platform. They and Sadagopan will work closely with Risant Health’s IT business partners, bringing together the business, clinical and technology knowledge to build comprehensive solutions for the value-based platform.
Sadagopan joins Risant Health from Providence, a nonprofit health system serving the Western U.S., where he led care transformation initiatives as chief operating officer, population health. Sadagopan has more than two decades of experience spanning technology, health care services and economics, having served in leadership roles at Siemens, Quest Diagnostics, McKesson and Edifecs. He has expertise in improving the performance of value-based care arrangements, developing effective clinically integrated networks, and strategically deploying artificial intelligence tools. In August 2024, he spoke with Healthcare Innovation about “learning to think like a payer.”