Fred is founder and president of Accountable Health, LLC, a healthcare consulting firm, and an Instructor at the John D. Bower School of Population Health at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. Where he teaches in the Executive Masters Degree program. He has over 30 years of experience in population health, disease management, HMO and hospital operations.

Fred founded Specialty Disease Management Services, Inc. (SDM) in 1997.  SDM was a disease management company that provided services to employer groups and 10 state Medicaid programs. Prior to founding SDM, he served as the VP/GM for HealthCare USA, a Medicaid/Commercial HMO, that was acquired by Coventry. HealthCare USA was ranked the highest quality Medicaid Health Plan in Florida.  As President of U.S. Preventive Medicine (USPM 2007-2012) he oversaw the development of Macaw, an award-winning mobile health app (CES 2012 Mobile App Showdown and CTIA 2011 Hot for the Holidays selection). USPM’s innovative and validated employee health improvement program, now known as the Preventive Plan served clients such as Aon and the State of Nevada. Fred has worked with employers, health systems, and vendors to develop population health programs and services. On the policy front, he was directly responsible for the inclusion of the Medicare Annual Wellness Visit in the Affordable Care Act.

He serves on the Editorial Board of the journal Population Health Management, the founding Advisory Board of Population Health News, and is Past Chair of the Board of the Population Health Alliance. Fred has testified before the legislature in Alaska, Florida, Kentucky and Texas on disease and population health management. He is also the co-founder and lead host of PopHealth Week, a weekly podcast.

Fred received an MS in Health Care Administration from Trinity University and a BA in Zoology from the University of California, Berkeley.