As Senior Vice President, Population Health and Health Plan Services & CEO of the Sutter Health Plan, Aparna Abburi spearheads efforts to enhance Sutter’s care coordination and preventative care, expand value-based care models, and deliver data-driven, patient-focused solutions that improve health outcomes, expand access to care, and reduce costs for people and communities across California. She collaborates with medical groups and community independent physician associations through a clinically integrated network.
Aparna has nearly 25 years of healthcare experience, including executive roles at Cigna, Centene, and UnitedHealth Group. She has a proven track record in profit and loss management, strategic growth across Medicare, Medicaid and commercial lines of business, mergers and acquisitions, business turnarounds and healthcare policy. She holds board and advisory positions with several healthcare organizations.
She earned an MBA from the University of Chicago and a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Birla Institute of Technology & Science in Pilani, India.
