Biography
Dr. Michael Le joins WellBe Senior Medical as President, bringing a wealth of
value-based care clinical experience to the organization. Dr. Le will
continue to grow and scale the care model to establish the standard of care
for the most polychronic, mobility-limited, and high-needs patients across
the nation.
Dr. Le was previously
Chief Medical
Officer of WelbeHealth, the fasted growing
PACE (Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly)
organization in the
country.
He focused
on caring for frail senior patients who are institutionally
qualified through intensive
interdisciplinary
care at their
comprehensive care centers. In the span of
a little over
two years, he has helped
WelbeHealth decrease admits per thousand by 50%, while driving
organizational clinical, quality, financial, and
patient satisfaction outcomes.
Prior to WelbeHealth, Dr. Le was co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of Landmark Health,
founded in 2013 to provide 24/7 in-home, physician-led, multidisciplinary
team-supported house calls to the sickest and frailest patients in the comfort of their
homes. Landmark became
the nation’s largest risk-bearing home-based medical group, growing to over 2,500 employees and clinicians, caring for 250,000
full–risk lives across 20 states with $160M in EBIDTA, by the time it was acquired by Optum in 2021 for over $3B.
After transitioning into Optum, Dr. Le became Chief
Medical Officer of Optum Home & Community Care, a newly formed entity which combined Landmark and five other entities to deliver a seamless patient journey with the focus
on providing care where patients desire it most: in the comfort of their homes. This unified platform, created to manage the highest risk patients in place, grew
by 2023 to encompass over 16,000
employees and took full risk on 1 million patients in over 30 states.
Prior to starting Landmark, he served as Chief
Medical Officer at Fidelis SeniorCare. He designed and implemented a new intensive
clinic-based care model for high–acuity dual–eligible patients that became a health plan awardee for the Michigan Duals
Demonstration Project.
Before Fidelis, Dr. Le was Senior Medical Officer
at CareMore, where he was a practicing Extensivist in the hospital and skilled nursing
facilities. He also
oversaw all organizational high-risk
programs, including Case Management, High Risk Clinic, Social SWAT Team, Palliative
Care/Hospice Programs, and the House Calls
Program.
He spent the first ten years of his career as a Hospitalist for
HealthCare
Partners, and became the Regional Lead Hospitalist overseeing inpatient
outcomes in his Southern California Region.
Dr. Le received his Medical Degree from UCLA and
completed his Internal Medicine Residency at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los
Angeles. He also completed a
leadership fellowship from the Institute for Physician Leadership at the University of
California, San Francisco. Dr. Le
lives in Irvine, California with his wife, Tita, who
is an attorney, and their two daughters, Isabella
(17) and Victoria (14).
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