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Prakash Patel

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Prakash is a physician-operator with experience spanning clinical training, startup formation, and large-scale healthcare leadership. He trained in orthopedic surgery before helping spin out a half-dozen pharma and device companies, then spent years running major health organizations. At GuideWell he served as COO and President, helping scale the company past $20B in revenue. At Elevance (formerly Anthem), he grew the Diversified Business Group 6X in three years and led a behavioral health transformation from under 1% digital to over 30%. Advisor to Reach Capital and a physician-operator with experience in company formation, payer operations and specialty care. His biography describes prior leadership at GuideWell and Elevance and an interest in value-based chronic-condition care. The directory’s external employer captions are not treated as Reach executive titles.