Don Fowls, M.D. is a nationally known psychiatrist and health care consultant who works with organizations across the country to develop solutions for the many challenges they face today, including integration, value-based reimbursement, managing complex, special populations, and strategic partnerships. Dr. Fowls has worked with several national and regional health plans, health systems and providers to address these areas. He has also helped a number of start-up companies with product and business development, enabling them to strategically identify their best opportunities and then successfully pursue them as customers.
Dr. Fowls previously served as Chief Medical Officer and Executive Vice President of Business Development for Value Options and its parent company FHC Health Systems for eleven years. He also worked at Schaller Anderson Inc. as Executive Vice President, Business Development, and President and CEO of its behavioral health subsidiary.
In Arizona, he recently served as the behavioral health advisor to the Practice Innovation Institute, one of the CMS Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative grant awardees to transform the practices of health care providers. As part of this process he co-led the Behavioral Health Affinity Group nationally. He also served as Chief Medical Officer of Mercy Maricopa Integrated Care, the first fully integrated behavioral health plan in the nation.
Dr. Fowls is recent past Chairman of the Board of Copa Health, an Arizona-based community provider of services for behavioral health and intellectual and developmental disorders and continues as a Board member. He is also immediate past President and current Chair of Government Affairs for the Arizona Psychiatric Society and a Fellow in the American Psychiatric Association.