Kidneylink is led by a diverse community of nephrologists and operators passionate about transforming care delivery across the kidney disease spectrum. With decades of value-based care experience, the Kidneylink leadership team brings proven expertise and insights to help our partners navigate and drive the future of kidney care.
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Kidneylink Announces Program Growth in Value-Based Kidney Care
Expands care to 16,000+ patients with 600+ nephrologists nationwide
Leadership Team
Mark Caputo
Chief Executive Officer
- Founded Liberty Dialysis in 2002 and served as its Chief Executive Officer
- Served as Chairman of the Board of Sound Physicians
- Served as Managing Partner of Joint Ventures for Fresenius Medical Care
Mary Dittrich, MD, FASN
Executive Vice President, Chief Medical Officer
- 11+ years of experience in IT and operations management at Caremore and Anthem.
Alex Portet
Chief Operating Officer, Value-Based Care
- Practicing Nephrologist
- Co-founder and Partner of Boise Kidney & Hypertension Institute
- Served as Chairman of the Medical Advisory Board, Liberty Dialysis
Thao Pascual, MD, FASN
Associate Chief Medical Officer
- Founded Liberty Dialysis in 2002 and served as its Chief Executive Officer
- Served as Chairman of the Board of Sound Physicians
- Served as Managing Partner of Joint Ventures for Fresenius Medical Care
Mike Rocklin, MD
Associate Chief Medical Officer
- 11+ years of experience in IT and operations management at Caremore and Anthem.
Greg Schlessinger, MD
Vice President, Clinical Affairs, Office of the Chief Medical Officer
- 11+ years of managed care experience, with a focus on partnerships between payers and providers at Landmark Health and Oliver Wyman.
Kelly Barker
Senior Vice President, Finance
- 20+ years of experience operating health plans and building provider partnerships with capitated arrangements at Centene and US Oncology.
Mike Flood
Senior Vice President, Market Operations
Mikenzie Matteson
Chief Actuary
- 11 years of analytics / actuarial experience in the value based care in the post-acute / home health spaces at CareCentrix and Aetna.
Todd Newby
Vice President, Product
Sean O'Sullivan
Vice President, Risk Adjustment
Alan St. Pierre
Vice President, Market Operations
- 11 years of analytics / actuarial experience in the value based care in the post-acute / home health spaces at CareCentrix and Aetna.
Phil Sarnowski
Senior Vice President, Business Transformation
Katherine Tripple
Senior Vice President, Strategy and Innovation
Jenny Wang
Vice President, Value-Based Care Analytics
- 11 years of analytics / actuarial experience in the value based care in the post-acute / home health spaces at CareCentrix and Aetna.
- Colorado Kidney Care — CMO
- Renal Physicians Assoc. — Chairman CKD Workgroup.
- 20+ years of experience of value based care in Medicare/Medicaid and practice management with specialist providers at US Oncology and Optum/UnitedHealth Group