Robert J. Master, MD
President and CEO,
Commonwealth Care Alliance
Bob Master is a practicing physician, board-certified in Internal Medicine with over twenty-five years of experience in the clinical management of patients with advanced chronic illness and disability. In 2003, Bob was awarded a Soros/Open Society Institute, two year fellowship, and concurrently became the President and CEO of Commonwealth Care Alliance.
Prior to his role at CCA, Bob served as CEO at Community Medical Alliance (CMA), an experimental HMO caring for individuals with severe disabilities and AIDS under a pre-paid financing arrangement with Massachusetts Medicaid. He was also Chief Medical Officer at Neighborhood Health Plan (NHP), a non-profit, community health center based health plan serving 130,000 low income, mostly Medicaid eligible individuals in Massachusetts.
From 1988-1995, Bob was the Chair of the Health Services Department of the Boston University School of Public Health and remains on the faculty as an Associate Professor of Public Health teaching courses in managed care and special population programs.
Bob served as the medical director of the Massachusetts medicaid program in the Dukakis administration where he was Medical Director for Massachusetts Medicaid Program, where he was responsible for all programs, policies and external relations of the Medicaid Program, as well as directing a staff of 300 people.
Bob was the first physician and Medical Director at the Uphams Corner Health Center, and founder of the Urban Medical Group in Boston until 1985 where new approaches to nursing home and home medical care using nurse practitioners were defined; approaches that transferred hospital level services to the home and to the community. |
