Health Insurance Kansas City | Blue KC | Icebreaker

Health Insurance Kansas City | Blue KC | Icebreaker

Members

Haley King MSN, RN

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Clinical Nurse, Case and Disease Management

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Experienced Strategy & Operations Professional

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Marketing Executive at Preferred Health Professionals

Steven Kaster MD, MBA

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Operational healthcare executive with an accomplished history of aligning vision and strategy to drive organizational success within public and private companies. Broad clinical and operational expertise in: multi-state initiatives, hospital and medical practice operations, physician recruitment and alignment, ambulatory surgery centers, value-based clinical care delivery models, service line development, for-profit acute care hospitals and entrepreneurial ventures. Skilled at developing high performing teams and inspiring them to execute on goals in a defined timescale. Expertise in harnessing data to drive decisions and performance across matrixed organizations. Confident public speaker, strategic thinker, relationship builder and brand champion. Passionate about value creation by growing, optimizing and aligning healthcare teams while linking clinical and business strategies. BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT: Leveraged skills mastered during a Kellogg MBA program to lead multiple successful initiatives in acute care hospitals, joint ventured ambulatory surgery centers, a private medical practice, and a large multispecialty independent physician association. Growth oriented and P&L owner. CLINICAL CARE DELIVERY MODELS: Recently led an enterprise team which developed and managed the GI service line for a large network of primary care clinics in 15 states. Also developed a clinically integrated network of independent physicians that pitched exclusive specialty care contracts to large self-insured employers in the Kansas City market. Consulted for private equity and venture capital projects in the healthcare space. Won a private equity competition while in business school. OPERATIONS: Key executive managing multiple acute care hospital departments, multi-site strategic initiatives and major hospital capital projects. Experience managing a large community medical practice and three ambulatory surgery centers. Provided strategic direction for a telehealth platform to reduce hospital readmissions. CLINICAL: 15+ years as a board-certified private practice gastroenterologist in both outpatient and inpatient settings as well as a shareholder in joint ventured ambulatory surgery centers. Served as a Chief Medical Officer for two HCA hospitals, in different markets.

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Vice President of Partnerships & Philanthropy

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CISO at Dolby | 2x CISO | Security Tinkerer | Board Member | Boardroom Certified Qualified Technology Expert (QTE) | Venture Advisor | CSA Research Fellow

Sowjanya Paladugu

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Experienced engineering leader with specializations in high scale and distributed data processing pipelines and health care domains