Kerry McDonald

Kerry has more than 30 years of healthcare experience at the executive management level including managing health plan operations, as well as financial services and information support systems. Currently, Kerry is the Chief Executive Officer of Magellan Complete Care in Florida. In this role he provides leadership in overseeing and ensuring operational compliance with business, financial, quality, and employee objectives. He focuses on cost-effective delivery of high-quality, clinically focused service and operations. In addition, he ensures that quality management plans and protocols are implemented and continually monitored. Previously, Kerry served as the start-up Chief Executive Officer of Liberty Health Advantage, a Medicare Advantage; VP of Regional Operations for Americhoice, a managed Medicaid payer in NY and NJ; and the Chief Operating Officer of a TennCare plan (THP). During his career, Kerry led the implementation of a new Amsys claims system, and was a significant contributor to the turnaround of an 85,000 member book-of- business, going from a $30 million loss to a $2.5 million profit, after a 90 day implementation period. Additionally, he conceptualized and implemented a complex rate analysis for UnitedHealth Group that enabled the network management team to re-contract with more than 20,000 providers which resulted in an annual savings of more than $11M for their New York managed Medicaid plan. Furthermore, Kerry has led the IT implementation of many software system projects unique to health plans, by building teams of people to accomplish these tasks while achieving significant financial results in extremely short time frames. Kerry holds a BA in finance from Notre Dame of Maryland University, and will graduate with an MS degree in Analytics and Knowledge Management in December 2015. He also was a hospital corpsman in the US Navy.