Behavioral Health Business November 23, 2022
Innovation has its greatest impact when it’s applied at scale. And the intersection of innovation and scale is where Acadia Healthcare’s new division president Nasser Khan wants to be.
Driven by curiosity, the Rhode Islander wanted answers to questions about the health care industry that he couldn’t find in his previous life as a physician-scientist. How do things really work? Why don’t certain things work? How do you make the most of a possible solution?
He joined DaVita Inc. (NYSE: DVA), a giant kidney care services provider, in 2012. There, he had a key realization. Khan learned that the tiny portion of Medicare enrollees with end-stage renal disease (0.8%) accounted for 8.3% of all Medicare spending.
It brought to...