Dr. Richard Sánchez, MD, MPH, FAAP

Dr. Richard Sánchez is an Arizona and California licensed and specialty-boarded primary care physician with a background in public health. He specializes in the assessment of emerging technology and pharmacy innovations to provide coverage guidance to providers and healthcare payers. He is an internationally recognized healthcare executive in care operations and policy.

Dr. Sánchez received his medical degree from the University of California School of Medicine at San Francisco. He then completed a pediatric residency at the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles. He received a Master of Public Health from the University of California, Berkeley.

Over the last twenty years, Dr. Sánchez has provided strategic and tactical leadership to many of the nation’s leading healthcare organizations, including AltaMed, Community Health Plan of Washington, Family Health Plan of Chicago, Aloha Care, U Care of Minnesota, Health Integrated, BCBS of North Carolina, McKesson, IASIS Healthcare, Steward Health Choice, and AxisPoint. He has recently served as Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer at Molina Healthcare and Health Choice, managing their clinical programs, medical affairs, quality and pharmacy departments’ operations, and quality initiatives.

Before assuming this position three years ago, Dr. Sánchez was chief medical officer for Molina Healthcare of California and Molina Healthcare of Utah. He has over 20 years of experience in managed health care and technology assessment. He has also worked as Chief Medical Officer at Mercy Care Plan (Schaller Anderson), Coventry Health Care, Humana, and Blue Cross Blue Shield in New York City. Dr. Sánchez also served eight years as public health commissioner for the city and county of San Francisco, California.