Business Development Patient Care

RARES COCIOBA, DO, MD

646-***-**** ad5n5p@r.postjobfree.com www.linkedin.com/in/cocioba

PHYSICIAN SERVANT LEADER PHYSICIAN ADVISOR LAB DIRECTOR ADVOCATE People-centric and strategic physician leader driving optimized workflows, access to care, and efficient delivery of value- based, patient-centered, and high-quality healthcare. Leverage dedicated track record in clinical leadership, business acumen, evidence-based medicine, and personnel management to guide innovative system-level strategy that maximizes healthcare services while improving staff engagement and satisfaction. Serve as liaison between clinicians and management through high emotional intelligence, coaching, and advanced communication skills, boosting cross-functional collaboration and a humanizing medical model. Drive organizational design and business transformation in highly regulated and matrixed organizations, bringing thought leadership, modernization, and enhanced practice standards to enable scale and continuous improvement. Influential servant leader inspiring performance excellence and alignment in overall mission, vision, and values of diverse health systems through interpersonal skills, relationship management, and accountability. AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Transformational Leadership

• Advocacy & Committee Engagement

• Digital Health & Alternative Care Delivery Models

• Infectious Diseases & Crisis Management

• Predictive Modeling

• Clinical Strategy & Business Development

• Medical Analytics & Data Informatics

• Value-Based Medicine & Medicare Advantage

• Employee Engagement & Conflict Management

• Utilization, Cost Controls & Financial Performance

• Healthcare Regulatory Standards

• Clinical Program Development

• Performance Management

• Quality Improvement

• Risk Adjustment

• Public Speaking & Effective Communication

• Emotional Intelligence & Interpersonal Skills

• Cognitive Biases

• Cultural Awareness & Diversity

• Health Administration & Operations

SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Selected as US lead for Patient Experience Department at Sanitas USA transforming negative patient feedback into a tool for professional development resulting in 3 clinicians ranked in Top 10 for region and #1 ranked clinician in country; led organization in best overall patient satisfaction scores nationwide

• Provided transformational leadership to strategically navigate Valley Health System through global CoViD pandemic, championing team to take on PCP functions to ensure continued delivery of all-encompassing quality patient care. Leveraged training in infectious diseases to apply data analytics to create predictive models forecasting patient volumes, creating proactive plans fueling key decision making

• Increased patient and employee satisfaction scores from 45th percentile to 99th percentile nationwide at Valley Health System, boosting organizational morale and re-aligning staff with organization’s vision for patient health

• Designed disease risk stratification and management model in partnership with clinical pharmacist and University of South Florida (USF) Brain Health Assessment Program at Reliance Medical Centers (now Humana) for proactively diagnosing dementia 10 years in advance of onset of symptoms, generating $9M in projected revenue PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

VINCENT J. DILELLA, LLC / Dunedin, FL 2023-Present Attending Physician Subacute Care & Rehabilitation Attending Physician co-managing panel of over 800 patients in Veteran Affairs and private subacute care/rehabilitation/nursing home facilities with mixed payer population including HMO/capitation models.

• Medical management of subacute / post-acute and long-term patients including bedside emergencies

• Group facility management including infectious disease outbreaks

• Palliative Care and Hospice management

• Collaborate with specialist medical groups and consultants

• Represent practice when collaborating with skilled nursing facility administration and external medical groups RARES COCIOBA, DO, MD

646-***-**** ad5n5p@r.postjobfree.com www.linkedin.com/in/cocioba SANITAS USA / GUIDEWELL / Miami, FL 2022–2023

Regional Medical Director, Medical Lead Patient Experience USA, Medical Lead/Consultant Pharmacy Program Lead 23 clinicians in optimized clinical operations for 44,000 value-based and Medicare Advantage patients in West Florida Region. Streamlined physician workflows and workloads to eliminate burnout, increase efficiency, enhance patient care and delivery. Managed complex patient caseload as board certified physician.

• Collaborated with Florida Blue Regional Medical Director to address priority areas in DRG, HCC, MLR, and RAF to achieve mutual short and long-term goals

• Restructured and optimized patient workflows by collaborating with nursing and operational staff

• Served as founding member of Credentialing Committee to enhance provider regulatory processes

• Provided leadership and expertise as medical lead for clinical integration of new Pharmacy Program

• Co-medical lead for Compliance Committee

• Evaluated organization’s high turnover rate and calculated analytics to reveal $500K in lost paid training costs, proposing reinvestment of funds toward physician resources and total rewards in order to drive employee retention

• Partnered with Patient Experience and IT to design optimized clinician performance dashboard, utilizing data to fuel constructive, empathetic physician coaching sessions; highly effective dashboard subsequently scaled across US

• Identified $6.5M revenue loss from inefficient prescribing protocols

• Reestablished Care at Home Program serving patients to prevent readmissions and complete transition of care

• Lead interdisciplinary meetings creating task-oriented clinical teams, managing projects, creating pilot programs

• Lead provider meetings resulting in improvements in morale, clinical management, utilization, optimal prescribing habits, reducing unnecessary referrals, achieving KPIs, maximizing RAF, decreasing MLR

• Coach off-track colleagues through challenges with humanistic relationship enhancement RELIANCE MEDICAL CENTERS (ACQUIRED BY HUMANA) / Lakeland Tampa Winter Haven, FL 2021–2022 Vice President of Medicine & Lab Director

Led strategic direction of medical department across patient care management, process improvements, workflows, and program development. Facilitated monthly clinician meetings to align cross-functional departments in patient care and cost controls. Coordinated high-risk patient management across departments to reduce readmissions and enhance out-patient care. Identified areas of improvement for expenditures to implement change management. Interviewed, vetted, recruited, trained, and mentored clinicians. Partnered with key opinion leaders (KOLs) to establish, enhance, and scale standards of care.

• Decreased patient readmissions by 27% by motivating provider engagement and improving overall communications

• Led medical team to design clinician-friendly onboarding process and operations manual

• Created presentation materials for internal meetings and external collaborations

• Liaison to USF Medical program and specialist groups in the community

• Lead clinical team achieving group average MLR of 78% with top provider at 73%

• Collaborated with Head of Clinical Pharmacy to reduce medication burden on patients resulting in deprescribing of over 9,000 prescriptions decreasing over 3,000 ER visits and hospitalizations secondary to polypharmacy

• Partnered with eClinicalWorks EMR team to enhance clinical workflow, decrease fatigue, improve patient safety VALLEY HEALTH SYSTEM / VA & WV 2019–2021

Urgent Care Regional Medical Director & Lab Director Directed urgent care staff in outstanding patient care delivery, led regulatory compliance adherence, and improved workflows to improve employee and patient experience. Led urgent care staff in clinical and quality initiatives to support high standards for clinical performance and best practices while organically expanding territory and growing team.

• Increased patient and clinician satisfaction from 45th to 99th percentile nationwide (Press-Ganey)

• Collaborated with pharmacy department to create clinic medication dispensing process

• Enhanced patient satisfaction with new telehealth hybrid model by +100%

• Created and launched Autonomous Nurse Practitioner Program to scale team and increase reimbursements RARES COCIOBA, DO, MD

646-***-**** ad5n5p@r.postjobfree.com www.linkedin.com/in/cocioba

• Coached clinicians on advanced out-patient magenta educed referrals to emergency department by 87%

• Achieved perfect scores for Commission on Office Laboratory Accreditation (COLA) inspections for all regional labs

• Interviewed and vetted physicians and advanced provider applicants to recruit top talent

• Managed clinician performance, individualized training opportunities, addressed behavior, and burnout potential.

• Served as spokesperson and advocate for provider development, evidence-based practice, and clinical loss prevention

• Inspired providers to develop pilot programs with intention of potential rollouts to other regions

• Ranked in top 10 leaders systemwide through anonymous Press Ganey employee survey

• Co-founded CoViD19 Research Review Group to implement evidence-based guidance systemwide

• Served as liaison between administration and employer clients to align with organizational goals

• Enhanced hospital integration and drove seamless interdisciplinary care, case management, and utilization

• Drove 100% retention of regional clinicians during global pandemic

• Partnered with Epic EMR tea to streamline documentation process to enhance CoViD and PCP workflows CityMD / New York, NY 2015–2019

Urgent Care Physician

• Personal best monthly Net Promoter Score 100 multiple months, yearly average 88.5

• Trained and coached onboarding physicians

Private Practice / New York, NY 2012–2015

Full-Scope Family Medicine & Urgent Care Physician Full-scope Osteopathic and Allopathic Family Medicine encompassing general and urgent care practices of acute and chronic medical conditions, providing care for individuals and family units across their entire life span, promoting health, enhancing survival, and optimizing quality of life including palliative care and hospice services.

• Adjunct faculty preceptor

• New York University Nurse Practitioner program and Mercy College Physician Assistant program

• Cognitive error evaluation for organizational training and independent case review including medicolegal risk

• Consultant analyzing semiologically complex cases, rare diseases, and conditions of unknown etiology

• Consultant for large primary care entities to incorporate a streamlined system to efficiently accommodate a large number of walk-in visits while maintaining scheduled appointments, creating custom condition-oriented protocols D*O*C*S Medical Group / Yonkers, NY 07/2012 - 04/2014 Full Scope Family Medicine & Urgent Care Physician

• Oversaw, taught, and evaluated Resident Doctors and Physician Assistant students

• Increased vaccine-related reimbursements by 400% South Nassau Communities Hospital Cardiac Rehabilitation Center / Oceanside, NY 07/2011 - 07/2012 General Physician

• Oversaw monitored patients during cardiac rehabilitation exercise program South Nassau Communities Hospital / Oceanside, NY 07/2009 - 07/2012 Family Medicine Resident

• Fulfilled dual-accredited unopposed three-year Osteopathic and Allopathic Family Medicine residency program accredited through American Osteopathic Association and Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education

• Ranked top resident, graduating with highest “Exceptional” marks in all areas of evaluations for all years

• Over 1,500 outpatient clinic encounters and 800 confirmed hospital procedures including in-house emergencies

• Interviewed potential peer candidates applying for residency positions

• Led weekly resident board review session

RARES COCIOBA, DO, MD

646-***-**** ad5n5p@r.postjobfree.com www.linkedin.com/in/cocioba PHYSICIAN ADVISOR

• Blue Cross Blue Shield FloridaBlue Quality Assurance Program

• Stories For Generations Scientific lead providing service for patients with cognitive decline, collaborating with USF

• Happygum GmbH Consulting on lifestyle product to increase general well-being

• Thailland.org Logistics for transition of care in medical tourism SPEAKING EXPERIENCE

Engaging attendees of various group sizes in an interactive format

• Leading over 60 provider meetings 2012 – Present

• Health Advocate Summit / New Orleans, LA 2023

• Unifying Forces: Strengthening the Team-Based Approach and Enhancing the Physician-Patient Relationship

• Sanitas Medical Mental Health Summit / Tampa, FL 2023

• Closing Remarks to 1,500 attendees worldwide: Clinician Wellness, Burnout & Clinician suicide AWARDS

• Valley Health Regional Health Systems Anonymous Employee Survey – Top 10 Leaders (2021)

• vitals.com – Patients’ Choice Award (2017, 2015)

• vitals.com – Patients’ Choice Compassionate Doctor (2015)

• South Nassau Communities Hospital – Resident of the Year (2012)

• South Nassau Communities Hospital – Most Valuable 2nd Year Resident (2011) BOARD CERTIFICATIONS

• American Osteopathic Board of Family Physicians – Family & Osteopathic Medicine (recertification 2024)

• American Board of Family Medicine – Family Medicine EDUCATION

• NY College of Osteopathic Medicine; Old Westbury, NY – Doctor of Osteopathy

• Carol Davila University of Medicine & Pharmacology; Bucharest, Romania – Doctor of Medicine FULL ADMITTING AND CONSULTING HOSPITAL PRIVILEGES

• South Nassau Communities Hospital / Oceanside, NY 08/2013 - 12/2016

• Mount Sinai Hospital of Queens / Long Island City, NY 05/2013 - 05/2015 PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

• American Board of Family Medicine

• American Osteopathic Board of Family Physicians

• American Osteopathic Association

• International Society of Travel Medicine

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