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Leadership

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J. Kersten Kraft MD
Chief Medical Officer

Dr. J. Kersten Kraft has served as President of the SCCIPA since 2008. He also serves as the Chief Medical Officer of PPMSI, the Management Services Organization (MSO) for SCCIPA. After spending 16 years at Stanford University (undergraduate, medical school, residency in Urology) he established his medical practice at Good Samaritan Hospital in San Jose, more than 30 years ago. He was a general partner and president of Mobile Kidney Stone Centers of California, a joint venture of physicians, physician groups and Good Samaritan Hospital, which grew to be the second largest lithotripsy operation in the country. He continues to practice Urology and is listed in Best Doctors annually. Kersten has served on the boards of American Physicians Group (APG), Health Access Solutions, and was a member of the NCQA committee for standards of specialty physician excellence.

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Claire Tamo
Chief Executive Officer

Claire Tamo is an executive with over 25 years of experience in the healthcare industry. She started her career at Valley Children’s Hospital in Fresno, California, the only children’s hospital between the Bay Area and Southern California. After returning to Northern California, she continued her career in healthcare leading finance and operations teams in medical foundations, independent medical groups and management services organizations within Sutter Health, Stanford, Kaiser Permanente and Blue Shield. Claire has dedicated her career to building teams and organizations that possess a growth and customer service mindset; instilling a culture of continuous learning that strives to support clinicians in the delivery of high-quality patient care for the communities they serve. Claire holds an undergraduate degree in Accounting from California State University, Fresno.

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Jeff Jarrett
Chief Information Officer

Jeff Jarrett is an accomplished information technology executive with over 26 years of experience in information technology, including the last 17 years within the health care environment. He holds an undergraduate degree from Oregon State University in Business Administration and a master’s degree from Oregon Health & Science University in Managing Science & Technology. Jeff is a dedicated transformational leader who looks to leverage the use of technology to improve the daily lives of patients and the providers who deliver their care. Having recently relocated to the San Jose area from Oregon, Jeff is looking forward to getting outside and exploring all that Northern California has to offer.

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Don Thompson
Chief Finance Officer

Don Thompson joined PPMSI in 2022 as the Chief Financial Officer. He brings over 25 years of Finance and Accounting experience in health care to PPMSI. Don graduated from California State University, Fullerton in Business Administration/Accounting with high honors. Don began his career as a staff auditor & controller leading a successful pathway to CFO. Don’s finance experience ranges across local and national health care systems, hospitals and he has over 20 years in the IPA Managed Care Finance and Operations. In Don’s spare time he enjoys spending time with his family and friends.

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Renee Mercer
Interim Associate Vice President, Claims & Customer Service

Renee Mercer is a healthcare executive with more than 30 years experience leading high performing Claims and Customer Service teams for various National Health Plans and a California MSO. Renee has also held Market facing roles leading the Commercial Group Market developing market strategy and developing high value products. Renee excels at maintaining relationships with both internal and external stakeholders, business partners, regulators, and state partners and strives to deliver best in class member, and provider experiences. Renee has a Master’s of Science Degree in Leadership and Management with a concentration in Organizational Development. Her passion lies in developing leaders so they can elevate their teams to improve overall quality and efficiency of their performance.


Earning the right

As a first order management services organization, we help companies, foundations and individuals make a difference. Our work gets to the heart of the matter. We break silos because it takes more than any one check or policy or letter to tackle big issues like reducing cost of care while improving the care members receive. We prescribe a custom formula of advocacy, collaboration, investment, philanthropy, policy and new ways of doing business in order to help you make progress.

But how do we do it? We like to call it earning the right, walking the talk and playing the game …

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