Paveljit S. Bindra, MD
Author
CVHP
Biography
Paveljit S. Bindra, MD, is the founder and CEO of the Imperial Health Plan of California, Inc. A licensed health plan, Imperial Health is responsible for delivering coordinated care to Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries in several counties in California. It does so through managed care contracts, an integrated physician group, and contracted hospitals. Dr. Bindra has tested several of this book’s concepts at Imperial Health, with promising results.
Dr. Bindra has extensive management experience in hospital administration. He served as chief medical officer and chief information officer of a three-hospital, 625-bed acute care health system with an affiliated home health and hospice system. Prior to entering management and administration, he was a practicing cardiologist and electrophysiologist.
Dr. Bindra trained at Massachusetts General Hospital and the University of Pennsylvania. He attended Harvard Medical School (MD), Harvard College (AB), and the University of Oxford (MSc), where he was a Fulbright Scholar. He is also an adjunct associate professor at the University of Southern California Sol Price School of Public Policy.
Books published by Health Administration Press: