PopHealth Week’s guest on July 1 at 12 pm ET is Roy Hinman, MD the founder and CEO of Island Doctors which employs more than 50 people within 14 offices in Florida stretching from Jacksonville to Interlachen and New Smyrna Beach. He opened his first family practice office in 1991 on Anastasia Island in St. Augustine, Florida.
Dr. Hinman is a pioneer and began to take full risk Medicare Advantage in 1998. Since then, Dr. Hinman’s practice has grown to approximately 16,000 capitated Medicare Advantage patients in Florida. He anticipates having 20 offices by the end of 2015 to meet the demand. In addition to his owned offices, he also manages a network of 32 affiliated providers.
With innovative programs targeting diabetes, COPD, cholesterol, smoking and weight loss, he understands keeping patients healthy and how to manage capitated contracts. His comments may surprise you.
Here’s some of Dr. Hinman’s bio:
Dr. Hinman was raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is a graduate of Oklahoma Military Academy, received his Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from Tulsa University, and his Master’s Degree in Human Resource Management from Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. He completed medical school at Universidad Technologica de Santiago in Santo Domingo, The Dominican Republic. He served his family practice residency with the University of Florida Medical Program at the University Medical Center in Jacksonville, Florida and worked as an emergency room physician at Bradford County Hospital in Starke, Florida and at Ed Fraser Memorial Hospital in Macclenny, Florida.
Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Armored Cavalry in 1975 at Oklahoma State University, Colonel Hinman ultimately retired from the U.S. Army Reserve in 2014 as a Medical Corps officer, after 37 years of military duty in the United States, Germany, Korea, Kuwait, Nicaragua, Panama, Saudi Arabia, Ecuador, the Dominican Republic, and Iraq where he served three combat tours. He recently served as the Territorial Surgeon of the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Dr. Hinman is Board-Certified in Family Practice and is a member of the Florida Medical Association, the American Association of Family Practitioners, the Florida Association of Family Practitioners, the St. Johns County Medical Society and the American Academy of Anti-Aging, and has full Family Practice admitting privileges at Flagler Hospital in St. Augustine, Florida where he has been an active staff member since 1991.
So join PopHealth Week’s guest, Dr. Roy Hinman and gain valuable insights into how he has been doing what many have, and or will be trying in the not to distant future, full risk capitation.