Senior Vice President, Chief Medical Officer
Humana
Potomac, District of Columbia, United States
Kate Goodrich, M.D., MHS, is the senior vice president and chief medical officer for Humana. In this role, she provides executive clinical leadership for the insurance and CenterWell businesses, and has accountability for Physician engagement, Humana Healthcare Research, and the Health Equity and Social Impact work with Humana business partners. Prior to becoming Chief Medical Officer, Kate was the SVP for Clinical Analytics and Trend within the Clinical
Solutions organization, where she was accountable for producing the business analytics and rapid learning approach for clinical programs designed to improve outcomes at lower cost.Prior to Humana, Kate was at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) where she was the Director of
the Center for Clinical Standards and Quality and CMS Chief Medical Officer. This Center is responsible for 18 quality and value-based purchasing programs including the Quality Payment Program, quality improvement programs in all 50 states, development and enforcement of health and safety standards of all facility-based providers across the nation, and coverage decisions for treatments and services for Medicare. Prior to CMS, Kate was on the faculty at the George Washington University Medical Center (GWUMC) and served as division director for Hospital Medicine and chair of the Institutional Review Board. She continues to practice clinical medicine as a hospitalist and clinical professor of medicine at the GWUMC. Kate earned her MD from Louisiana State University in Shreveport, LA. She completed internship and residency at George Washington University (GWU) and got her masters In health services research from Yale. Kate grew up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and has lived in the Washington DC area since 1995. She currently serves on the boards of Project N95, the National Clinician Scholars Program and the National Quality Forum.
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