Chief Medical Officer
Michael Le, M.D. is Chief Medical Officer of WelbeHealth, a fast-growing PACE provider. PACE (Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly) offers an alternative for frail, senior patients who qualify for nursing home levels of care but can remain safe and independent in their community with the support of WelbeHealth. In his role, he is responsible for optimizing clinical quality and outcomes as WelbeHealth continues to scale and grow across the country.
Previously, Dr. Le co-founded Landmark Health in 2013 and served as Chief Medical Officer. Landmark provided 24/7 in-home, physician-led, multidisciplinary team-supported house calls to the sickest and frailest patients in the comfort of their homes. Landmark has become the nation’s largest risk-bearing Home Based Medical Group, with over 2,500 employees and clinicians caring for 250,000 full-risk lives across 20 states before it was acquired by Optum in 2021.
After transitioning to Optum, Dr. Le became Chief Medical Officer of Optum Home & Community Care, a newly formed entity that combined Home Based Medical Care, Post-acute Utilization Management, Palliative Care, Dual Eligible Population Management, Institutional Special Needs Plan, and Annual Wellness Visits to deliver a seamless patient journey. This unified platform to manage the highest-risk patients grew by 2023 to encompass over 16,000 employees taking full risk on 1 million patients across 39 states.
Prior to starting Landmark, he served as Chief Medical Officer at Fidelis SeniorCare, where he designed and implemented a new intensive clinic-based care model for high acuity Dual Eligible patients that was a health plan awardee for the Michigan Duals Demonstration Project. He also previously served as Senior Medical Officer at CareMore, where he was a practicing Extensivist in the hospital and skilled nursing facilities, in addition to overseeing 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 10 years of his career as a Hospitalist for HealthCare Partners, and rose to the level of 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 a retired attorney, and their two daughters, Isabella and Victoria.
