Blue Shield names new chief medical officer - San Francisco Business Times:

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senior vice president and chieftmedical officer, replacing Dr. Alan Sokolow, who acceptes a position with in Southerm California latelast year, according to Blue Shield. Officials at the San Francisco-based healt plan said Mathews will oversee all ofits health-carw services, including prevention and wellnese programs, disease and case management, maternityh management, pharmacy benefits management, medical policies, centers of clinical quality, transparency strategies and utilizatiobn management. Mathews has more than two decades of experiencew in healthplan management.
Most he was chief medical officet forDaVita VillageHealth, where he oversaws the company’s disease and care management programs for patients with end-stage renak disease and chronic kidney disease. Prioer to that, Mathews was CMO for diseasew management specialist Blue Shield is one ofthe state’as largest health plans, with 3.4 million enrollees in variouss health insurance plans, including 1.2 million HMO enrolleexs and 1.
56 million PPO members