Biography
Fred is an Instructor at the John D. Bower School of Population Health and the founder and president of Accountable Health, LLC, a healthcare consulting firm. He has over 30 years of experience in population health, disease management, HMO, and hospital operations.
Fred founded a disease management company that provided services to employer groups and 10 state Medicaid programs, operated a Medicaid/Commercial HMO that was ranked the highest quality Medicaid Health Plan in Florida, developed an award-winning mobile health app and has worked with employers, health systems, and vendors to develop population health programs and services. He was directly responsible for the inclusion of the Medicare Annual Wellness Visit in the Affordable Care Act.
He serves on the Editorial Board of the journal Population Health Management, the founding Advisory Board of Population Health News, and is Past Chair of the Board of the Population Health Alliance. Fred has testified before the legislature in Alaska, Florida, Kentucky, and Texas on disease and population health management. He is also the co-founder and lead host of PopHealth Week, a weekly podcast.
Fred received an MS in Health Care Administration from Trinity University and a BA in Zoology from the University of California, Berkeley.
