Alex Portet Of US Renal Care On 5 Things We Need To Do To Improve The US Healthcare System

An Interview With Jake Frankel

Make measures for performance and patient experience transparent and public.

The COVID-19 Pandemic taught all of us many things. One of the sectors that the pandemic put a spotlight on was the healthcare industry. The pandemic showed the resilience of the US healthcare system, but it also pointed out some important areas in need of improvement.

In our interview series called “In Light Of The Pandemic, Here Are The 5 Things We Need To Do To Improve The US Healthcare System”, we are interviewing doctors, hospital administrators, nursing home administrators, and healthcare leaders who can share lessons they learned from the pandemic about how we need to improve the US Healthcare System.

As a part of this series, I had the pleasure to interview Alex Portet.

Before joining USRC, Alex Portet most recently served as Optum’s Senior Vice President Operations for the metro Los Angeles area where he oversaw value‐based care programs for their ~120,000 patients. Before joining Optum, he spent five years with the Gates Foundation, overseeing strategy for the Global Health Division, and leading several…