Biography
Dr. Michael Le joins WellBe Senior Medical as President, bringing a wealth of value-based care clinical experience to the organization. Dr. Le will continue to grow and scale the care model to establish the standard of care for the most polychronic, mobility-limited, and high-needs patients across the nation.
Dr. Le was previously Chief Medical Officer of WelbeHealth, the fasted growing PACE (Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly) organization in the country. He focused on caring for frail senior patients who are institutionally qualified through intensive interdisciplinary care at their comprehensive care centers. In the span of a little over two years, he has helped WelbeHealth decrease admits per thousand by 50%, while driving organizational clinical, quality, financial, and patient satisfaction outcomes.
Prior to WelbeHealth, Dr. Le was co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of Landmark Health, founded in 2013 to provide 24/7 in-home, physician-led, multidisciplinary team-supported house calls to the sickest and frailest patients in the comfort of their homes. Landmark became the nation’s largest risk-bearing home-based medical group, growing to over 2,500 employees and clinicians, caring for 250,000 full–risk lives across 20 states with $160M in EBIDTA, by the time it was acquired by Optum in 2021 for over $3B.
After transitioning into Optum, Dr. Le became Chief Medical Officer of Optum Home & Community Care, a newly formed entity which combined Landmark and five other entities to deliver a seamless patient journey with the focus on providing care where patients desire it most: in the comfort of their homes. This unified platform, created to manage the highest risk patients in place, grew by 2023 to encompass over 16,000 employees and took full risk on 1 million patients in over 30 states.
Prior to starting Landmark, he served as Chief Medical Officer at Fidelis SeniorCare. He designed and implemented a new intensive clinic-based care model for high–acuity dual–eligible patients that became a health plan awardee for the Michigan Duals Demonstration Project.
Before Fidelis, Dr. Le was Senior Medical Officer at CareMore, where he was a practicing Extensivist in the hospital and skilled nursing facilities. He also oversaw all organizational high-risk programs, including Case Management, High Risk Clinic, Social SWAT Team, Palliative Care/Hospice Programs, and the House Calls Program.
He spent the first ten years of his career as a Hospitalist for HealthCare Partners, and became the Regional Lead Hospitalist overseeing inpatient outcomes in his Southern California Region.
Dr. Le received his Medical Degree from UCLA and completed his Internal Medicine Residency at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He also completed a leadership fellowship from the Institute for Physician Leadership at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Le lives in Irvine, California with his wife, Tita, who is an attorney, and their two daughters, Isabella (17) and Victoria (14).
