Physician Alignment: Constructing Viable Roadmaps for the Future

About FACPGeorge MayzellGeorge Mayzell MD MBA FACPJr.MBAMDWilliam R. BreenWilliam R. Breen Jr.

George Mayzell MD MBA FACP FACHE is a board-certified internist and geriatrician with over 10 years of patient care experience and over 19 years of administrative health industry experience. Dr. Mayzell assumed the role of chief executive officer of Health Choice LLC in November 2010. Health Choice is one of the mid-Souths leading physician hospital organizations serving the needs of more than 518000 health plan members through contracts with over 100 employers insurance companies and third-party administrators and 1500 physicians through Metro Care Physicians. One of his recent projects is to create an accountable care partnership and an innovative system of patient-focused care.Previously Dr. Mayzell was senior vice president and chief patient care officer at Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare. Methodist is a seven-hospital system with over 1600 licensed beds in Memphis Tennessee. He was responsible for patient care operations and oversight of regulatory readiness for the system. He also served as chief medical officer (CMO) for Methodist Germantown Hospital. In addition to being a past faculty member at the University of Florida Dr. Mayzell worked at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida where he was directly involved with medical management activities including disease management utilization review appeals and grievances case management pharmacy benefits pay for performance and Medicare risk. Dr. Mayzell received his medical degree from New Jersey Medical and his MBA from Jacksonville University. He is the author of Leveraging Lean in Healthcare (CRC Press 2011).William R. (Bill) Breen Jr. has over 25 years experience in healthcare network leadership and relationship management. Bill worked at a large insurer from 1984 to 1991 building networks of physicians and hospitals to support managed care contracting. In 1991 he joined Methodist Healthcare in Memphis Tennessee to help lead a growing managed care network (Health Choice) that Methodist had built several years earlier. Bill rose to be the chief executive officer (CEO) of Health Choice in 1997 and assisted it through a reorganization as a full hospital/physician joint venture. During his tenure the network grew to be the commercial market share leader in Memphis and developed numerous payer partnerships that benefitted the hospital system and over 1200 physicians. He also led the development of services to aligned physicians that improved physician practice operations and loyalty to the health system. Bill now serves as the senior vice president of physician alignment for Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare and is responsible for implementing and managing physician alignment activities for the system and remains as a board member of the physician-hospital organization (PHO). Bill has a bachelors degree from the University of Louisville and a masters in business administration from the University of Memphis. He has achieved his fellowship in the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) and is a certified medical practice executive in the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA).