June 23, 2021 • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM ET

Abdou Bah is the Vice President of Stars & Quality Management. In this role, he is responsible for leading EmblemHealth’s efforts to drive quality improvement with alignment of quality and HEDIS operations.

Abdou has more than 10 years experience in health care, including 5 years in management consulting. Abdou has held various roles in Quality organizations, primarily overseeing Medicare Stars, HEDIS improvement & management operations.

Amy Kendall is the Vice President Complex Health Solutions for CareSource. Ms. Kendall drives innovation, improved outcomes, and better care for individuals with complex medical, behavioral and social needs enrolled in CareSource’s government programs. Ms. Kendall has been with CareSource for two years and brings deep experience to this role leading administrative and clinical operations at a specialty health plan in NC for over a decade, ultimately serving as both COO and CAO for nearly four years. In addition, she has more than a decade of experience in health plan operations, legal operations, governance and risk management.

Dr. Saperstein began his career in managed care in 1992 and joined MetroPlus Health Plan in 1995 initially as Chief Medical Officer and then as President and CEO from 2006 until 2019. MetroPlus Health Plan is a managed care organization that, under Saperstein’s leadership grew from 40,000 members to over 500,000 members with an estimated 32,000 participating providers. Saperstein has spent the majority of his career developing programs that ensure the highest quality of care. During his tenure at MetroPlus, it ranked as one of the highest scoring plans for quality of care as measured by the New York State Department of Health Medicaid Incentive Program and by the Medicaid Consumer Guide for New York City. Under his leadership, MetroPlus rose to the forefront of Value Based Purchasing. Programs he developed included groundbreaking quality incentive pay for performance programs across the entire MetroPlus network.