Jeffrey S. Friedman
President & Chief Executive Officer

Senior Executive with 40 years of experience in hospital, multi-site physician practice management,  MSOs, imaging services, HME/DME, Medicare Advantage, and health systems operations. Proven track record in establishing new business ventures, expanding service lines, increasing revenues, and driving quality improvement and patient satisfaction. Successful in developing extremely productive physician strategic alliances; recruiting physicians and negotiating employment agreements; designing, planning, and opening new healthcare facilities; evaluating, financing, and acquiring major capital equipment; and negotiating vendor and managed care contracts. Excellent entrepreneurial, leadership, organizational development, and communication skills.

Jeff currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of MLCG.  Prior to this role, Jeff was Chief Executive Officer of Medwood Services, LLC, a private equity owned management company for primary care clinics in the medically under-served communities in Brooklyn and Queens, NY.  During his tenure he increased the number of clinics through acquisition and de novo sites, upgraded the management team and all practice operations for higher quality and more efficient operations, revamped the provider compensation plan to reward growth, quality and patient satisfaction, and added new services with a focus on improving quality outcomes for their patients.

Before Medwood, he served as a Senior Vice President & Executive Director of Physician Services for the RWJBarnabas Health System, the largest non-profit health system in New Jersey.  He had direct responsibility for over 200 physicians in 100 practice sites with revenues in excess of $83M.  Jeff drove improved financial performance year-over-year and improved quality and patient satisfaction scores to drive clinical improvement and population health initiatives to transform the delivery of patient care. He supported the strategic growth initiatives of seven acute care medical centers. 

Jeff also served as Vice-President of Clinic Operations for Peoples Health, a Louisiana based Medicare Advantage plan with over 60,000 members.  He established and managed a new division of the company that operated patient-centered medical home clinics and positioned them to enter into value-based provider agreements with insurers.

Prior to Peoples Health, Jeff owned a retail home medical equipment (HME) company that he later sold to the Ochsner Health System in New Orleans and ran their HME division; served as Director of Syndications for ASCs with Tenet Healthcare Corporation; and as Chief Operating Office for U.S. operations of Tenet Physician Services, their nationwide MSO.  He was also the Executive Director and General Partner in Diagnostic Imaging Services, a privately held New Orleans imaging company and orchestrated its sale to Tenet.

Previously, Jeff  spent five years serving in Assistant and Associate Administrator roles of three acute care hospitals owned by Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) and American Medical International (AMI).

He was a Clinical Associate Professor at the Tulane University  School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine (SPHTM) for eight years and has served on the Editorial Advisory Board of Decisions in Imaging Economics for nine years.

He holds a Master of Public Health in Health Systems Management  from the Tulane University SPHTM and a Bachelors of Science in Public Health from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).