About Recuro
Recuro is an integrated digital health solutions company that takes a uniquely personalized and proactive approach to virtual care. Unlike other traditional virtual care solutions today, Recuro has created a Digital Medical Home to enable customized care that meets patients’ needs no matter their location or circumstance. Through its Digital Medical Home, Recuro provides a holistic suite of virtual care services and supplemental benefits that consumers can choose from to design a digital health solution. Recuro’s core virtual care offerings include primary care, behavioral health, and urgent care, with supplemental benefits spanning pharmacy, care management, advocacy, and physician locator. Recuro’s enterprise-ready SAAS platform seamlessly ties these digital solutions together enabling simple customization, white-labeling, and easy configuration. Recuro is committed to providing the tools to help you proactively manage your health and maintain well-being on an ongoing basis.
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Patients
Experience a virtual care solution that’s made for you
Patients can have virtual visits with primary care and behavioral health doctors dedicated to understanding their unique needs and developing a personalized care plan. In addition, through Recuro’s health risk assessment, patients can identify any genetic or lab screenings that may be relevant and can complete the tests all from the comfort of their homes.
Employers
Improve employee satisfaction, productivity and health
Employers can design a digital health solution that’s customized to meet the needs of their employees. Choose from a suite of integrated virtual health offerings and supplemental benefits to provide employees with solutions to keep them healthy and happy. Our scalable platform is easy to deploy, configure and integrate with your systems.
Health Plans
Deliver a customized virtual care experience focused on member engagement
Health Plans can improve member experience and health outcomes by leveraging our Digital Medical Home to proactively identify member risk and direct members to the right point of care whether that’s a visit with a behavioral health specialist or screening for disease.
Providers
Drive patient experience and access
Providers can offer convenient access to care and maintain ongoing relationships with patients no matter their location or circumstance. Our integrated referrals facilitate connections to top specialty services to provide the best care for patients.
Overview
Recuro Health
Recuro is an integrated digital health solutions company that takes a uniquely personalized and proactive approach to virtual care. Unlike other traditional virtual care solutions today, Recuro has created a Digital Medical Home to enable customized care that meets patients’ needs no matter their location or circumstance. Through its Digital Medical Home, Recuro provides a holistic suite of virtual care services and supplemental benefits that consumers can choose from to design a digital health solution. Recuro’s core virtual care offerings include primary care, behavioral health, and urgent care, with supplemental benefits spanning pharmacy, care management, advocacy, and physician locator. Recuro’s enterprise-ready SAAS platform seamlessly ties these digital solutions together enabling simple customization, white-labeling, and easy configuration. Recuro is committed to providing the tools to help you proactively manage your health and maintain well-being on an ongoing basis.
Infrastructure
Company Insights
Disrupting the traditional healthcare delivery system by bridging the gap between the current system and digital health, Recuro is led by Michael Gorton, founding CEO of Teladoc. The Recuro team includes several Teladoc leaders along with other healthcare luminaries and experienced business executives. These experienced healthcare executives and clinicians have a deep understanding of the current challenges facing healthcare systems and are building the infrastructure and partnerships to address challenges that include care fragmentation, gaps in care, poor outcomes and high costs and more. Collectively, these issues make healthcare unsustainable but create a fertile opportunity for the changes that Recuro brings to all stakeholders.
About Us
Recuro Health is leading the way in virtual healthcare, to learn more about our leadership team read the bios below.
Recuro Leadership
Michael Gorton
Founder
A quintessential entrepreneur, mentor, and company builder, Michael leads the Recuro Health team which includes several leaders from Teladoc, where he served as the founding CEO and pioneered an industry-changing health care model that created a new efficiency paradigm in healthcare by delivering physicians to patients nationwide in under 12 minutes for $35. Gorton ran Teladoc as CEO and Chairman for the first seven years of operations. Under his term, the company grew from a concept to one of the most recognized innovations in healthcare, with nearly two million patient members nationwide. Under the Teladoc model, physicians made more and patients paid less. Teladoc was studied and advocated by most of the major healthcare think tanks and was recently named one of the most innovative companies in healthcare. Teladoc recently entered the NYSE and now has a market cap of over $30B.
Michael Brombach
Chief Operating Officer
Michael is responsible for driving the strategy and development of Recuro’s digital health platform and products, overseeing integration, go-to-market strategy, and future product innovation. The company he founded, SupDoc, an AI-powered health platform for convenient and efficient care services, was acquired by Recuro Health earlier this year to enhance its integrated capabilities. Previously, Michael was an executive in Accenture Strategy’s Healthcare Practice with expertise in health system innovation, virtual care and patient experience. He has worked across some of the leading healthcare providers, payers and pharma companies in North America. He specialized in product strategy, provider enterprise transformation, care model innovation, and health consumerism. Michael has two pending patents for his work on health innovation and customer experience design. He is also the author of multiple thought leadership articles (including one in Harvard Business Review) on topics including, how to solve healthcare’s complexity, future applications of virtual care models, the growth potential of consumerism in health care, and provider transformation. He has presented on these topics at several health conferences including HIMSS.
Kate Sowerwine, MD
President, P.A.
Dr. Kate Sowerwine has served in roles as consulting physician, President and Chief Medical Officer for telemedicine companies WellVia and Recuro Health. She is a Board Certified internist having completed a fellowship at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, where she reported directly to the Director of the Division of Intramural Research. Dr. Sowerwine has been named a Castle Connolly Top Doctor, and has published several peer reviewed articles related to immunology. She believes in accessible and affordable medical care and entered the telemedicine space more than 6 years ago to provide quality care without barriers to access.
Drew Holm
Chief Financial Officer
Drew oversees the financial strategy and human resource functions for Recuro. Leveraging almost 20 years of experience in healthcare, mergers & acquisitions, and finance, Drew ensures the company strategically invests in Recuro’s continued growth, while maintaining financial discipline. Prior to joining Recuro, Drew served as vice president of corporate development for Constellation, Inc., where he led M&A, strategic partnerships and new ventures. Prior to Constellation, Drew held several roles at Stella, the parent company of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota, across corporate development, finance and strategy.
John Halsey
Chief Growth Officer & Co-Founder
John leads the growth and expansion of the Recuro market footprint, bridging departments spanning business development, sales, marketing, operations and information technology. An experienced industry leader, John is shaping the positioning of Recuro to stay ahead of and engage with potential buyers wherever they are in the purchase cycle. He spearheaded sales and strategy activities at Teladoc where he helped to structure the product and service portfolio, align the offerings with market channels and build company revenues. Beyond sales, John has in-depth industry knowledge and understanding of the roles of employers/plan sponsors, payers and providers to create high-value healthcare solutions that address member needs. John is uniquely qualified to scale products and services that escalate Recuro sales operations in the digital health space. He is regarded as an industry pioneer, having had successful business development positions with MDLIVE, Realtime Medical Data and Turn-Key Health.
Kimberly Darling
President of Sales
Kimberly Darling is an entrepreneur and inventor who advocates for the practical use of technology. As an inventor, she holds more than 4 U.S. patents related to the innovation of healthcare data, payments and engagement. The innovator role came from a passionate determination to find solutions for clients. Driven to spread the word on the virtues of practical technology innovation in the healthcare industry, Kimberly has helped her clients earn millions of dollars. With over 30 years of healthcare and technology experience, Kimberly excels at consultatively finding unique value and solutions.
Allison Martin
Executive Vice President, Enterprise
Allison is a founding member and Executive Director of Recuro Health, and the former CEO and founder of Massachusetts-based UDoTest, a B2B At-Home Disease Testing Software Company. Inspired by cancer prevention in Africa, Allison’s global awards from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Genentech, Frost and Sullivan, to name a few, both during and pre-pandemic, led Allison to becoming a leader in the at-home testing industry. As a serial entrepreneur and business executive, as well as, with her work with America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) Innovation Lab and in the global telecommunications industry, led to Allison having been frequently interviewed for her work on improving the access and the cost of better health for many.
Josh Nordtvedt
SVP Payer Strategy
As Recuro’s Senior Vice President of Payer Strategy, Josh is responsible for growing our virtual footprint in the Health Plans market space. With over 20+ years of industry experience, Josh’s passion is DATA. In fact in 2015, Josh began a study that focused on analyzing healthcare quality metrics and risk adjustments in order to reflect the true acuity level of each individual member by measuring the overall relative performance of each health plan. Josh soon realized that it was not the culmination of data that solved for risk adjustment, but rather, the aggregate data that aided all the downstream processes… including improved patient health. That’s why Josh joined Recuro – because he believes genomic data can truly change individual outcomes and pay for itself exponentially. Over the course of his career, Josh has helped to implement and integrate thousands of impactful virtual solutions like the ones we offer today! As a Washington native with 3 daughters, Josh loves anything to do with the Seattle Seahawks – when he’s not relaxing with his family on sports nights, he’s actively geeking out on healthcare blogs keeping up on the latest trends!
Gina Fioretti
Executive Director, Genomics
Gina is a pioneer in genomics, genetic mapping, and epigenetics to improve clinical and personal outcomes, reduce costs, and engage and activate patients. Her health products and programs have been distributed and utilized internationally and translated into multiple languages. Because DNA contains the map and operating manual to one’s body, environmental elements like exercise, food, sleep, and medications can be tailored to everyone resulting in efficient disease mitigation and improved health and vitality. Gina’s programs are designed to do all the hard work and problem solving so that individuals jump straight to the solutions that are right for them, optimized to their genetic profile. As an industry leader, Gina has served as a consultant around the globe to laboratories, health care practitioners, and Fortune 500 companies on personalized medicine and the use of genomics to improve health and health care. Earning multiple degrees in biological sciences, nutrition science and genomics, Gina brings a highly specialized comprehension of genomic and epigenetic interdependencies and is uniquely qualified in the alignment of genomics with health, biological pathways, and clinical outcomes. Gina is committed to delivering the most personalized and convenient guidebook for anyone in their health journey, because she believes a person should not have to become a doctor or scientist just to be healthy.
Board of Directors
Philip Fasano
Board Chair
Phil is a visionary thought leader, award-winning corporate executive and Fortune 500 board level business strategy expert who brings more than 20 years of experience in the financial services, technology, insurance…
William Paiva
Dr. Paiva is the founder and managing part of OLSF Ventures (OLSF). Through his 20-year venture capital journey, he has been a partner at Sevin Rosen Funds and was a partner at Chisholm Private Capital Partners…
Tracy Chadwell
Tracy is the Founding Partner of 1843 Capital, a venture capital fund focused on early-stage technology companies. Through her work she hopes to change the way we view and experience aging. In 2021, Tracy was…
Dr. Bernard Harris
Dr. Harris is currently CEO & Managing Partner of Vesalius Ventures, Inc., a venture capital firm, that invests in early to mid stage Healthcare technologies and companies. He is responsible…
Michael Gorton
A quintessential entrepreneur, mentor, strategic visionary and company builder, Michael leads the Recuro Health team which includes several leaders from Teladoc, where he served as the founding CEO and Chairman…
Kris Engskov
Kris is Co-Founder & CEO of FHCC, an Arch Ventures-funded start-up company (in stealth mode) focused on building the next generation of behavioral health care for seniors. Most recently, Kris served as President of…
Bob Zollars
Bob has been leading healthcare and technology businesses for the past 40 years. Bob was Chairman and CEO of Vocera, a publicly traded HCIT company, recently sold to Stryker…
Advisory Board
- Deborah Gage
- Fabrizio Mancini
- Chet Kuchinad
- Jeff Gladden
- Rich Colasante
- Jack Esselen
- Jay Sanders
- Stephen Hochschuler
Deborah Gage
Deborah is a CEO and Board Member with 20+ years C-Suite experience with companies ranging from startups to Fortune100 Companies. Deb built her career as an entrepreneur founding, transforming, and leading healthcare technology companies that provide SaaS enterprise platforms for analytics, financial and clinical applications in the healthcare industry. An experienced CEO and Board Director, Deb has been a member of corporate boards alongside both PE and Venture firms, Fortune200 strategic investors, and early seed investors. Deb has served on Advisory Boards, Public University Boards,and non-profit Boards. Deb has experience transforming culture and leading teams to successful exits driving profitable high growth. As CEO, she has completed 10+ accretive M&A transactions. She is passionate about transforming the healthcare system to improve access, equity, consumer experience and health outcomes.
Most recently Deb is active as a limited partner of several funds and as an advisor to PE and Venture firms. In her most recent CEO role, Deb was President and Chief Executive of Medecision from 2011 to 2021, where she led the turnaround and profitable growth of the Company to over $100M, establishing the Company’s mission and market-leading position as a digital transformation partner in care management and consumer engagement. Under her leadership, Medecision (NASDAQ; IPO 2007 taken private by HCSC in 2008) evolved as a powerful SaaS-based care management engine for health plans, into a market-leading provider of big data, workflow, and consumer engagement solutions, as noted by Gartner and IDC. We look forward to her shared success and mutual collaboration – join us in welcoming Deborah Gage to Recuro Health’s Advisory Board.
Dr. Fabrizio Mancini
Dr. Fab Mancini is America’s #1 healthy living media expert, mentor to millionaires, hay house’s international best-selling author of the “Power of Self-Healing” and host of his TV series “Thriving in the New Normal”, popular radio show “Self-Healing with Dr. Fab” and podcast “The Fab Life”. Dr. Fab is also the best-selling author of “Chicken Soup for the Chiropractic Soul”, an internationally acclaimed educator, consultant, business leader, speaker, world renowned chiropractor and president emeritus of Parker University. He has been featured on Dr. Phil, The Doctors, Fox News, CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC, Univision, Telemundo and others. He has been interviewed in various documentaries and has received honors including heroes for humanity, humanitarian of the year, CEO of the year, and induction into the wellness revolutionaries hall of fame.
Dr. Mancini is also a graduate of the prestigious institute for educational management in the graduate school of education at Harvard University. Most recently, the President of Mexico named the Library at UNEVE, Mexico’s new Leading University, after him. Join us in welcoming Dr. Mancini to Recuro Health’s Advisory Board.
Chet Kuchinad
Chet is a global human resource and business leader in Retail, Consumer Products, Private Equity, and International Non-Profits including iconic brands like Nike, Starbucks and McDonalds where he led and contributed to business growth and value creation through people. He has successfully led and implemented programs in complex geographies, business structures and environments. He has hands-on strategic and operational experience in Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia and N/S America. Chet has a successful track record of building and sustaining business performance through employee engagement. His leadership philosophy is grounded in principles of Servant Leadership, and in the fundamental belief that exceeding employee expectations through clarity of purpose and roles is critical to business success.
At Starbucks, Chet led the design and implementation of a broad-based health care portfolio that provided comprehensive care to part-time partners (employees). Under his leadership, the team implemented innovation around analytics, quality, and affordability of care. He has provided thought leadership to Boards and guided Remuneration and Risk Committees in multi-sector settings. At present, Chet is on the Remuneration Committee of Jeronimo Martins, a Euro 20 Billion international retail organization headquartered in Lisbon, Portugal. In addition, Chet is on the Board of Atlas Corps, a non-profit based in Washington DC. Chet has an MS in Statistics from Marquette University and a B.Sc. in Statistics and Economics from the University of Bombay.
Dr. Jeff Gladden
Jeff Gladden is one of the preeminent longevity physicians in the world. His innate understanding of the science of physiology, combined with his medical training result in a unique skill, necessary for the ultimate goal of slowing down, and ultimately reversing the elements of aging. The Gladden Medical Clinic and Research Center for Health, Longevity and Human Performance Optimization was created to work with patients to identify specific issues, unique to the individual patient, and tweak those issues for peak performance, health and longevity. Dr. Gladden is also the co-creator of The Gladden longevity podcast, formerly known as Living Beyond 120, now one of the most listened to podcasts on the topic.
Dr. Gladden is a board-certified interventional cardiologist. He did his undergraduate work at Wheaton College and earned his Doctor of Medicine degree with Honors from Temple University in 1982. Dr. Gladden has specialized in many areas of cardiology, including interventional, diagnostic, preventative and programmatic. Dr. Gladden is currently the Director of Heart Attack and Stroke Prevention and Cardiac Rehabilitation at The Heart Hospital Baylor Plano, which he co-founded in 2004. He is CEO Board Chair, Principle and CMO for Product Development at Scientia Cardio Access and a board member at Scientia Vascular. He is currently licensed in three states, his work is published in multiple medical journals, and he is a consultant for multiple cardiovascular projects, programs and medical device development.
Rich Colasante
Rich is Director of Business Applications-Midwest in the US Healthcare and Life Sciences Division with Microsoft Enterprise Healthcare. Passionate about growing organizations across both the marketing and sales divisions, Rich is a thought leader with broad and deep specialties in development, strategic vision, execution and direction of both early-stage start-ups to Fortune 100 companies. He has led corporate staffs and has lent his expertise in advisory board positions.
Most recently, Rich served as VP of Business Development at K2M (acquired by Stryker) and VP of Sales with Biomet (Zimmer Biomet). Successful at finding creative solutions to issues on any level of his vast sales management experience, Rich is focused on providing expert input for all strategic negotiations – from organizational process to coaching to execution.
Jack Esselen
Jack is a successful Senior Executive and Entrepreneur qualified by 35+ years of C-level experience in the information technology, healthcare and insurance industries. He currently serves as President & CEO of both Esselen Resources and Sentry MD. Esselen Resources advises Employer Groups, Brokers, Associations and Health Plans on various benefit offerings with a focus on telemedicine and digital health benefits. Sentry MD is a leading provider of health record management and immunization tracking services for leading universities and healthcare employers in the United States. Jack holds both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Clark University in Worcester, MA.
Jay Sanders, M.D.
Dr. Sanders is the CEO of The Global Telemedicine Group, Professor of Medicine (Adjunct) at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and a Founding Board Member and President Emeritus of the American Telemedicine Association. Known to many as the “Father of Telemedicine,” he developed the first statewide telemedicine system; the first Correctional telemedicine program; the first tele-homecare technology, called “The Electronic House Call” and the first telemedicine kiosk. His consulting activities have included NASA, DOD, HHS, the FCC, State Governments, WHO and multiple academic institutions and Fortune 500 companies. In 1994, Dr Sanders introduced telemedicine capability to the then Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs), Dr. Steven C Joseph; that culminated in the initiation of the use of this technology within DOD. He was subsequently asked to serve as the sole civilian representative on the DOD Telemedicine Board of Directors with the Surgeons General of the Army, Navy and Air Force. During the Clinton Administration, he represented the USA to the G8 nations for telemedicine and was appointed by former HHS Secretary Leavitt to the Chronic Care Workgroup Committee.
In 1970, Jay developed and started the first Division of General Medicine in the country at the University of Miami, where he was Professor of Medicine and Chief of Medicine at Jackson Memorial Hospital. Other academic appointments include being Professor of Medicine and Surgery at the Medical College of Georgia, where he was Director of the Telemedicine Institute; Visiting Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania; and Visiting Professor at Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Sanders is a graduate of Harvard Medical School, magna cum laude; a member of AOA; and did his residency training at the Massachusetts General Hospital, where he became Chief Medical Resident.
Dr. Stephen Hochschuler
Stephen Hochschuler, M.D., is co-founder and chairman emeritus of the Texas Back Institute (TBI) and had attended Columbia College in New York for his undergraduate, followed by medical school at Harvard, where he studied general surgery and psychiatry. After an internship and general surgery residency at the Harvard Surgical Service at the Boston City Hospital, Dr. Hochschuler served in the Air Force from 1971 to 1973. Stephen played an integral part in developing the MRI for spine, bringing the artificial disc to the U.S., and facilitating the development of the pedicle screw fixation system first implanted by Art Steffee, M.D.
The future, Steve Hochschuler decided 40 years ago, is telemedicine. “All those years ago I helped Harvard develop a telemedicine apparatus to the tune of $125k per workstation. Now the pandemic has necessitated telemedicine, but it is incredibly cost efficient. I have just raised funds for a telemedicine company and am putting together a digital health system that incorporates a navigator to tell patients who they are seeing, where, and what their copay will be. The landscape remains in flux and as such is very exciting.” At 78 years old, Dr. Hochschuler is still traveling approximately 25-30% of the time, visiting companies, attending surgeon meetings, spending time with TBI colleagues and devoting his seemingly inexhaustible energy to creating the next future in spine surgery.
Promoting Diversity
Diversity & Inclusion
Culturally Competent Healthcare
Our network is diverse and multilingual, with specialized training to provide care that is respectful of gender, different cultures, specific care needs of people of color, different experiences, and sexual orientation. Behavioral health specialties are also trained in cultural competency affirming care for LGBTQ+ members.
Diversity & Inclusion
Choice of Care
Recuro strives to provide members with optionality for racial, ethnic, and language concordance. Members are given the choice of providers for Virtual Primary Care and Virtual Behavioral Healthcare Offerings. Recuro believes in health equity and care practices including:
- Collect race, ethnicity & language preference data
- Identify and report disparities
- Promote cultural & linguistical competent care
- Provide accessibility to culturally competent disease management programs
- Diverse Provider Network and Staff
Diversity & Inclusion
Diverse Hiring Practices
At Recuro Health, we thrive to be a diverse and inclusive workforce. We hire and trust people without regard to race, color, religion, marital status, age, national or ethnic origin, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other non-merit criteria. Recuro is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Diversity & Inclusion
Health Equity
The scalability of Recuro’s Digital Medical Home™ and its integrated approach to virtual care is improving access to care and contributing to the health equity missions of Recuro partners. Recuro digital solutions advance health equity objectives by overcoming barriers to care associated with social determinants of health and issues which specifically impact access, cost and quality.
