Andrew Bindman, M.D.
Fellowship Year(s): 2009-2010
Profession: Physician
Specialty: Health Services Research, Internal Medicine
Fellowship Details:
Kaiser Permanente
House Committee on Energy and Commerce (Majority)
California
At time of Fellowship
Andrew Bindman, M.D., is Professor of Medicine, Health Policy, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). He is Director of the California Medicaid Research Institute, Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine at UCSF’s affiliated San Francisco General Hospital, and Director of UCSF’s Primary Care Research Fellowship. He has practiced and taught primary care at San Francisco General Hospital and its affiliated clinics for the past 20 years.
Dr. Bindman has published more than 100 peer-reviewed scientific articles evaluating the impact of health policies on low-income patients’ access to and quality of care. He is also a co-editor of a textbook entitled “Medical Management of Vulnerable and Underserved Populations”. In his work, he has established the association between poor access to care and preventable hospitalizations for ambulatory care sensitive conditions. He has used this measure to evaluate Medicaid programs and to design interventions to improve quality of care for low-income patients with chronic disease. He has won numerous awards for his work, including Academy Health’s Young Investigator Award and the Paper of the Year Award.
In 2000, he was selected to be an Atlantic fellow researching the evolution of primary and chronic care delivery in the United Kingdom’s National Health Service. In 2005, he received an achievement award from the Health Resources and Services Administration in recognition of his contributions to research training in health care disparities and in improving the diversity of the nation’s health care workforce.
Current Info:
Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer
Kaiser Permanente
Health Care Access;Health Care Quality;Health Care Workforce;Health Care/Health Policy Advocacy;Medicaid;Population Health
Since Fellowship:
Andrew Bindman, MD, is executive vice president and chief medical officer for Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. and Hospitals.
In this role, Dr. Bindman is responsible for driving superior quality and equitable health outcomes through the integration of quality innovation, care delivery, and research. Dr. Bindman reports directly to Kaiser Permanente’s chair and chief executive officer and is a member of the National Executive Team.
He works closely with clinical and operational leaders to establish common performance standards for quality and service, drive consistent adoption of key quality programs, and leverage data analytics and research across the enterprise. His areas of focus include advancing the quality outcomes that matter most to members and establishing equity, alongside quality and safety, as a fundamental metric for care.
Dr. Bindman previously spent more than 30 years at the University of California, San Francisco where he practiced and taught clinical medicine while conducting research in health access and outcomes that resulted in more than 190 published scientific articles. A noted health care policy expert, he was an RWJ-HPF on the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee during the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). He subsequently had roles within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services including as Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
Dr. Bindman is a graduate of Harvard College and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. A board-certified general internist, he completed his residency in internal medicine at UCSF and was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar at Stanford University. He was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2015, where he currently serves on the organization’s board for health care services and chairs the workshops on diagnostic excellence. (updated 02/22/22)
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