Senior Vice President, Value Based Care

Catalyst Health Group; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Catalyst Health Group in Texas seeks a VP of Value Based Care to lead strategy, performance, and operations across value-based models. You will guide teams, empower providers, and shape the operating platform for risk-based arrangements, ensuring excellence in risk adjustment, quality outcomes, and medical expense management.

You will build relationships with physicians, payers, and partners, align market priorities, and translate data into actionable improvements while maintaining a strong

Qualifications

• MBA required with 10+ years of leadership in value-based healthcare
• Strong self-authoring skills to define success with business acumen and point of view
• Ability to establish credibility with physicians quickly
• Proven track record influencing without direct authority
• Strong quantitative, analytical, or STEM foundation and experience
• Proven experience leading VBC performance across MA and commercial VBC models; MA experience required
• Strategic and operational duality: design long-term strategies while maintaining execution
• Values relationships and demonstrates professional respect and an innovative mindset
• Experience leading high-performance teams
• Self-driven with a track record of achieving and exceeding goals
• Exceptional communicator who distills complex financial models for providers and stakeholders
• Strong problem-solving capability with high drive and learning agility

Responsibilities

• Set strategy for Catalyst's Value Based Care initiatives and align performance to priorities
• Build multi-year roadmaps to improve quality, patient experience, and cost effectiveness
• Lead with curiosity and champion innovation while removing barriers
• Cultivate relationships with providers, payers, and partners; influence decisions
• Ensure teams align with market trends, contract requirements, and value-based models
• Joint Venture Oversight for strategic partnerships including Agilon
• Lead P&L oversight and drive operational/financial performance across VBC contracts
• Establish KPIs for quality, risk adjustment, documentation, and cost of care
• Improve workflows and processes for efficient market operations
• Translate insights into action with analytics/clinical leadership
• Create a culture of continuous improvement and accountability
• Translate data into actionable performance improvements
• Guide providers in using VBC tools and resources for quality and cost gains
• Foster transparency and collaboration across an integrated environment
• Own the VBC budget and forecast staffing resources
• Ensure HIPAA, FWA, and licensure policy compliance

Skills

Leadership

Strategic thinking

Influence without authority

Data interpretation

VBC performance

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Problem solving

Change management

Team leadership

Financial acumen

Stakeholder management

Education

MBA

Job description

About Catalyst Health Group

Catalyst Health Group is a privately held, nationally recognized leader in primary care innovation and delivery. As the largest clinically integrated network for primary care providers in Texas, we support value-based care initiatives for more than 1,000 primary care physicians and serve more than 1.5 million lives across North and East Texas, and the Panhandle. Catalyst Care Connect is an MSO serving as the extension of each primary care provider's practice and focuses on the health of patients, practices and primary care physicians.

To fulfill our purpose of Helping Communities Thrive, in 2024 Catalyst launched Catalyst Physician Group, comprised of independent physician practices who have a long-standing, trusted relationship with Catalyst. Together, Catalyst and the physician practices have merged to create the 2nd largest physician group in the Southwest.

The Opportunity

At Catalyst Health Group, we believe primary care has the power to strengthen communities - and the VP, Value Based Care (VBC) plays a pivotal role in bringing our purpose to life. The VP, Value Based Care leads the strategy, performance, and operational excellence required to help our physicians deliver exceptional, people-centered care within value-based models. This leader is a results-oriented executive responsible for the strategy and performance of our entire VBC business portfolio, including commercial contracts, full-risk Medicare Advantage, and REACH.

In this role, you will guide teams, empower providers, and shape the operating platform that allows practices to thrive within risk-based arrangements. You will build trusting relationships, champion innovation, and ensure our markets meet - and exceed - the expectations of those we serve: physicians, partners, and patients. We are seeking a results-oriented leader who can seamlessly flex between high-level strategy and disciplined operational execution. This individual will drive the performance of our clinical and financial models, ensuring excellence in risk adjustment, quality outcomes, and medical expense management while nurturing critical strategic partnerships.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership & Strategy

• Set a clear and inspiring strategy for Catalyst's Value Based Care initiatives, aligning performance and operations to organizational priorities
• Build a multi-year roadmap that advances quality, patient experience, and cost effectiveness while strengthening our physician network
• Lead with curiosity, creativity, and courage - identifying opportunities, removing barriers, and championing innovation
• Cultivate strong relationships with providers, payers, and community partners; influence decision-making through credibility and trust
• Ensure our teams stay aligned with market trends, contract requirements, and emerging value-based care models
• Joint Venture Oversight: Serve as the primary operational leader for strategic partnerships, including our Joint Venture with Agilon, ensuring deep alignment and shared success

Performance & Operational Excellence

• Lead P&L oversight and ensure strong operational and financial performance across value-based contracts
• Establish KPIs and performance standards that drive quality, risk adjustment accuracy, documentation completeness, and total cost of care improvement
• Deliver operational excellence by improving workflows, optimizing processes, and ensuring smooth market operations
• Partner closely with analytics and clinical leadership to translate insights into action - improving network performance and contractual outcomes
• Bring forward a continuous improvement mindset that elevates how we work and how we serve practices
• Translate data into operational and financial performance in healthcare
• Analyze and "interrogate the data" to identify gaps in quality metrics and pinpoint performance leakage

People Leadership

• Lead, mentor, and empower a high-performing team of approximately 40 professionals, fostering a culture of accountability and performance
• Create a culture where people feel connected to purpose, empowered to grow, and accountable for outcomes
• Recruit, develop, and retain high-performing leaders and teams across the organization
• Provide coaching, clarity, and meaningful feedback that strengthens individual capability and team alignment
• Foster collaboration across a highly integrated environment, ensuring teams work together with transparency and shared intent
• Celebrate wins, recognize contributions, and communicate progress in ways that inspire confidence and pride

Provider & Client Partnership

• Strengthen relationships with medical groups and individual providers through transparency, empathy, and proactive problem-solving; serve as a bridge between complex risk-based data and practical, people-centered care
• Lead strategic account direction, ensuring our partners experience value, responsiveness, and aligned support
• Guide practices in using VBC tools, data, and resources to achieve meaningful improvements in quality and cost
• Serve as a trusted advisor by connecting insights to action and people to purpose

Budget & Resource Planning

• Own the Value Based Care budget, ensuring resources are aligned to strategy, operational needs, and performance goals
• Forecast staffing requirements and deploy resources in ways that maximize impact and sustainability
• Support financial planning for key initiatives and organizational priorities

Compliance & Governance

• Ensure full compliance with all federal, state, payer-specific, and internal policy requirements, including HIPAA, FWA, and licensure standards
• Anticipate operational risk and implement mitigation plans to protect the integrity of our programs and partnerships

Qualifications & Education Requirements

• MBA required, with 10+ years of leadership experience in value-based healthcare
• Strong "self-authoring" skills - the ability to define success based on expertise and business acumen, with a clear point of view and the ability to hold an integrated perspective
• Ability to establish credibility with physicians quickly
• Proven track record in influencing without direct authority
• Strong quantitative, analytical, or technical (STEM) foundation and experience
• Proven experience leading VBC performance across Medicare Advantage (MA) and commercial VBC models; MA experience required
• Strategic & operational duality: proven ability to design long-term strategies while remaining hands-on enough to ensure operational excellence
• Values relationships; demonstrates professional respect and an innovative mindset
• Experience leading high-performance teams
• Self-driven, with a proven track record as a self-starter and a history of achieving and exceeding assigned goals
• An exceptional communicator who can distill complex financial models into a compelling narrative for providers and stakeholders
• Demonstrates strong problem-solving capability when answers are not readily apparent, along with high drive and learning agility to navigate complex, evolving business challenges