April Greene joins Pearl Health to accelerate access to Value-Based Care for Medicare Advantage

Pearl Health, a leading value-based care technology company, today announced a strategic addition to its leadership team. April Greene, a seasoned healthcare strategy and operations executive, joins Pearl as Senior Vice President of Medicare Advantage. April joins Pearl with more than 25 years of experience in healthcare, offering expertise across network and clinical operations, value-based care, and population health.

“Value-based care programs, paired with a focus on maintaining quality and reducing total-cost-of-care, can incentivize primary care doctors to practice the sort of holistic medicine that has historically made them so essential in the delivery of optimal patient care,” said April Greene, Senior Vice President of Medicare Advantage at Pearl Health. “I am thrilled to join Pearl’s industry-leading team that affords providers the resources to realize the benefits of these programs, both for their patients and for themselves and to extend Pearl Health’s capabilities to the Medicare Advantage population.”

“April’s expertise with some of our nation’s largest payors — both in contracting and in value-based care more broadly — will be an invaluable asset to Pearl as we continue on our mission to help primary care providers manage their patients’ health effectively, and be rewarded for it, regardless of what health insurance coverage they have,” said Gabriel Drapos, Chief Operating Officer at Pearl Health. “We’re elated to have her join our team and are excited to work together to expand Pearl’s offerings and accelerate healthcare’s transition to rewarding actual patient outcomes.”

Before joining Pearl, April led network contracting and operations at CVS Health/Aetna as Chief Network and Operations Officer for New England, overseeing network contracting and value-based care for both Medicare Advantage and Commercial segments.

Prior to her experience with CVS Health/Aetna, April also served as Vice President of Population Health and Clinical Operations at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, where she was responsible for population health transformation, as well as care and utilization management operations.
April also previously worked at Aetna as Executive Director of Joint Venture Business Development, where she was responsible for Aetna’s provider joint venture strategy and execution,including their joint venture with Texas Health Resources.

In addition to these experiences, April had a long tenure at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts in various roles, including network contracting, value-based care and health and medical management. April received her Bachelor of Science degree at Northeastern University and her MBA at F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College.