agilon health, inc. announced that Benjamin Kornitzer, M.D., will assume a strategic role as special advisor to the company and will transition from his role as chief medical officer (CMO) effective March 1, 2024. agilon health has initiated a comprehensive search process to identify a new CMO. Until a successor is named, Karthik Rao, M.D., senior medical director and vice president, network performance, will serve as interim CMO.

Dr. Rao and agilon?s chief clinical officer (CCO), Kevin Spencer, M.D., will co-lead the company?s clinical strategy. Dr. Rao has a decade of experience as a practicing internal medicine physician and other roles working in value-based care. Prior to joining agilon, he worked at McKinsey & Company leading a broad range of strategy and operations work across the health care value chain with particular focus on provider groups and government organizations.

Dr. Rao received his B.A. from Johns Hopkins University and holds a medical degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He completed an internal medicine and primary care residency at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Spencer has more than 25 years of experience as a former chief executive officer (CEO) of an independent primary care practice, a practicing family medicine physician operating in value-based care and a founding agilon partner.

Prior to agilon, Dr. Spencer was the CEO and chairman of Premier Family Physicians, and founder and president of the Southwest Provider Accountable Care Organization (ACO). Dr. Spencer received his medical degree from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and completed his residency at the Carolinas Medical Center in North Carolina.