Inovcares Podcast: Pandemic of Inequalities with Dr. Laura Herrera Scott, MD, MPH, VP Medicaid Clinical Operations at Anthem. Dr. Scott has held several prominent leadership positions in the Baltimore area. As a trained family medicine physician, Dr. Scott has extensive public health experience and has led innovative programs specifically designed to improve health outcomes while saving costs. Most recently, Dr. Scott served as the Medical Director of Population Health and Community Health Programs at Johns Hopkins HealthCare, LLC. In addition to her years of work and volunteer experience, Dr. Scott also reached the rank of Major, Medical Corps after having served for 10 years in the United States Army Reserve.

Having successfully scaled its Enhanced Personal Health Care program, which rewards primary care providers who succeed in delivering patient-centered, value-based care, Anthem is expanding its work to base specialty care payments on quality and efficiency. Anthem’s approach includes multiple programs across both commercial and government-sponsored business, designed to reward specialists for coordination with primary care, as well as for consistently high-quality, efficient care.