L.A. Care’s James Kyle, M.D.: How Health Plans Can Become More Than Just Payers
Healthcare Innovation March 25, 2021
Next-generation health plans should focus on economic empowerment, fund community programs that enhance neighborhood stability, and offer interventions that address social risk factors, he says
L.A. Care Health Plan is the largest publicly operated health plan in the country. James Kyle, M.D., the organization’s medical director for quality, diversity, equity and inclusion, believes that health plans have an obligation to serve as more than just payers.
Kyle joined L.A. Care as medical director for quality improvement in April of 2019, leading quality improvement efforts in clinical quality, including health disparities, accreditation initiatives and member and provider surveys. He recently assumed his new title, but he has been leading the health plan’s enterprise-wide equity efforts since July 2020.
Speaking during...