Patrick Conway

Patrick Conway just recently became the President and CEO of Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina. Prior to this he served as the Chief Medical Officer, Deputy Administrator for Innovation and Quality and Director of the Center for Medicare &a; Medicaid Innovation for the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services. There, he was responsible for overseeing the quality of care, innovation and new payment models for the programs that serve the over 140 million Americans for access to health care services through Medicare, Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and the Health Insurance Marketplace. The CMS Innovation Center he led had a budget of $10 billion over 10 years. He was instrumental in helping lead the country to these value-based and outcomes-based care systems. He is a former White House Fellow and a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar. Patrick Conway completed his pediatrics residency at Harvard Medical School's Children's Hospital Boston, graduated with High Honors from Baylor College of Medicine, and graduated summa cum laude from Texas A&a;M University.