PHILADELPHIA, PA — IMPaCT Care has appointed healthcare executive Michael Monson to its advisory board as the company expands its community health worker platform and pursues new contracts with health plans and healthcare systems.
The appointment comes as healthcare organizations increasingly turn to community health workers to address staffing shortages, rising costs and the growing need to manage social factors that affect patient health outcomes.
IMPaCT Care provides technology and operational tools designed to help health plans and health systems launch and scale community health worker programs. The company says its model has been validated through three randomized controlled trials demonstrating improvements in health outcomes and healthcare utilization.
“IMPaCT Care is doing exactly what the healthcare system needs more of: meeting consumers where they are and enabling community health workers to improve people’s health and lives,” Monson said in a statement.
Monson most recently served as president, chief executive and board trustee of health research and consulting organization Altarum. He previously led Medicaid products and social determinants of health strategy at Centene and directed the insurer’s Center for Health Transformation.
Earlier in his career, Monson served as chief administrative officer and vice president of residential services at Village Care of New York, overseeing a $60 million profit-and-loss portfolio within a $200 million integrated health system. He also spent six years as a consultant at McKinsey & Company.
“His experience across organizations ranging from Fortune 50 companies to nonprofits will be invaluable as we scale our model nationally and deepen our partnerships with payers and health systems,” IMPaCT Care founder and Chief Executive Shreya Kangovi said in a statement.
The number of healthcare organizations employing community health workers has tripled in recent years as insurers and providers seek lower-cost ways to improve patient engagement and address unmet social needs, according to the company.
Monson holds a master’s degree in public policy from Harvard Kennedy School and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
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