InnovAge Appoints Michael Scarbrough as New President and Chief Operating Officer and Maria Lozzano as President, Pharmacy Services
November 04 2024 - 8:00AM
InnovAge Holding Corp. (“InnovAge” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq:
INNV), an industry leader in providing comprehensive healthcare
programs to dual-eligible seniors through the Program of
All-inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE), appoints Michael
Scarbrough as its new President and Chief Operating Officer and
Maria Lozzano as President, Pharmacy Services, effective November
4th.
Mr. Scarbrough joins InnovAge’s executive
leadership team as Christine Bent steps down from the role of COO
to explore new career opportunities. Scarbrough will also assume
the role of President as the Company separates the positions of
President and CEO to better enable execution of strategic
priorities.
The InnovAge team extends its gratitude to Ms. Bent for her
exceptional service and numerous contributions, which have helped
drive a more scalable infrastructure and positive participant
experience.
“Michael’s operational background and deep experience in
healthcare is a great fit for InnovAge as we continue to evolve our
business and to serve more seniors,” said Patrick Blair, CEO.
“Michael brings more than 30 years of healthcare experience at both
established and scaling businesses, including executive operational
leadership, payor and provider network development, and government
programs expertise. Michael has worked with numerous states in the
last 15 years as they transitioned various Medicaid populations
into new care delivery models that expanded participant choice,
improved quality, lowered costs, and increased patient
satisfaction.”
Mr. Scarbrough brings more than three decades of healthcare
experience to InnovAge, most recently serving as the Chief
Executive Officer of Optum at Home, a division of Optum Health,
responsible for services to 800,000 Medicare Advantage D-SNP
members. Prior to Optum at Home, Scarbrough was a co-founder and
served as the President and COO of Prospero Health, serving over
50,000 patients. Prospero was created to provide home-based
advanced primary, urgent, and palliative care services and was sold
to Optum in 2022. Earlier in his career, Scarbrough was SVP,
Medicaid Development & Specialty at Anthem, SVP of Health Care
Delivery Systems at Amerigroup, and the COO of Amerigroup
Tennessee.
Additionally, Ms. Lozzano is being promoted to President,
Pharmacy Services, and will report to the CEO. Ms. Lozzano most
recently served as the Company’s Senior Vice President and Chief
Business Development Operations Officer supporting existing center
performance improvement and new center market expansions. Maria
joined Innovage from the VNA of California where she served as
Chief Operating Officer. Prior to that, she worked as Vice
President of Operations at Premier Infusion Care, a provider of
home infusion and specialty pharmacy services.
“Maria has been a steady and strong contributor at the Company
for nearly eight years,” said Blair. “I know the impact Maria can
have on business performance, and I have tremendous trust in her
ability to lead our efforts to define a more effective pharmacy
operating model that leads to a better participant experience and
greater cost effectiveness.”
About InnovAgeInnovAge is a market leader in
managing the care of high-cost, dual-eligible seniors through the
Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE). With a
mission of enabling older adults to age independently in their own
homes for as long as safely possible, InnovAge’s patient-centered
care model is designed to improve the quality of care its
participants receive while reducing over-utilization of high-cost
care settings. InnovAge believes its PACE healthcare model is one
in which all constituencies — participants, their families,
providers, and government payors — “win.” As of June 30, 2024,
InnovAge served approximately 7,020 participants across 20 centers
in six states. https://www.innovage.com/.
Investor Contact:Ryan
KubotaRKubota@InnovAge.com
Media Contact:Lara
HazenfieldLhazenfied@InnovAge.com
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include, among others, our dependence on our senior management team
and ability to retain skilled employees; failure to execute an
orderly President and Chief Operating Officer transition; the
impact of the transition on the Company, its employees and its
suppliers; the viability of, and/or our failure to execute, our
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most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and any subsequent Quarterly
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