Don Crane is President and CEO of America’s Physician Group, the nation's only professional association exclusively representing capitated, coordinated care organizations, and is a leading voice promoting the interests of physicians practicing accountable care across the nation. APG consists of approximately 200 multi-specialty medical groups and IPAs that provide medical care to over 16 million patients across 40 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.
Mr. Crane is in the forefront of national public policy advocacy on behalf of accountable care organizations across the country as they make the journey from volume to value and move into risk-based alternative payment models. He is the lead producer and moderator of APG's nationally acclaimed healthcare conferences.
A seasoned healthcare attorney, Mr. Crane practiced healthcare law for over 30 years and served as corporate counsel for several major integrated health systems. Mr. Crane speaks regularly on healthcare issues to a wide variety of physician groups, hospital boards, and academic meetings. He has been a guest lecturer on healthcare management issues to graduate students at major California universities.
Tim is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer for VillageMD. In this role, Tim evangelizes the vision of a primary care-led healthcare delivery system that brings superior clinical results to communities across America.
Prior to VillageMD, Tim has held numerous senior executive positions across health plan and provider organizations, always focused on solutions that enable healthcare providers to bring value to the market through accountable care and population management. Tim obtained degrees from both Cornell University and Michigan State University, and now resides in Chicago, Illinois.
Leigh Hutchins is the Chief Executive Officer of NAMM California and PrimeCare Medical Network, Inc. (PMNI), affiliate organizations partnering with physicians to provide better quality and more affordable care to the residents they serve in Southern California. She also serves as the Chief Operating Officer for OptumCare’s Pacific West Region.
NAMM and PMNI coordinate care to over 400,000 members in Riverside, San Bernardino, and San Diego counties through 18 Independent Practice Associations (IPAs) comprised of over 700 contracted Primary Care Physicians. NAMM and PMNI partner with all of the major HMO carriers in Southern California for both commercial and Medicare lines of business and with several regional medi-cal payors. PMNI and NAMM have been recognized as being a Favorite Medical Group and Top Workplace in the region.
Ms. Hutchins has over 25 years of progressively responsible health care management experience. She joined NAMM in 1993 and has held various positions with NAMM/PMNI in the areas of payor and provider contracting, network development, transactional services and IPA operations. Prior to joining NAMM, Ms. Hutchins worked for FHP HealthCare in both staff model and IPA operations. Her commitment to promoting the wellbeing of her communities has led to her active participation in charitable organizations such as the American Heart Association, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and the American Cancer Society. Ms. Hutchins is a Board member for APG, a trade association for America’s Physician Groups. She also sits on the Integrated Healthcare Association’s Technical Payment Committee in support of the Pay for Performance Program.
Ms. Hutchins received her B.A. degree with honors in Pharmacology from the University of California, Santa Barbara and her M.B.A. from the Anderson Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Ron is the CEO of agilon health, a platform that empowers physicians with the operating model, technology, solutions and capital required to transition from fee-for-service to integrated payment and delivery. Through agilon health’s innovative physician-first partnership model, primary care physicians can lead the transformation of their local markets through value-based care, expand their long-term growth opportunity, share best practices with like-minded physicians, and recapture the joy of practicing medicine. Since its inception, more than 1,800 primary care physicians, including numerous thought-leading independent physician organizations have partnered through the agilon health platform to redesign the system of care for more than 300,000 patients.
Prior to joining agilon health in January 2017, Ron was the CEO of Fresenius Medical Care North America, the leading provider of products, pharmaceuticals and services to the renal community. In that capacity, he led FMCNA’s growth from $9 billion to $13 billion in revenue and its strategic shift from fee for service dialysis care to population health management for the renal disease population
His health care experience spans 25 years and includes experience in home infusion services, laboratory and diagnostic services, pharmacy services, physician practice management, government health plans, specialty ambulatory surgery and pharma and medtech sales and manufacturing, as well as dialysis services. Ron is a graduate of Albion College and the Yale Law School.
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