Dr. Groves is currently an independent consultant to Risk Averse Health, Care Cognitics and Mightier. He formerly served for seven years as Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer for Banner│Aetna, an insurance company in Arizona leveraging the strengths of the number one healthcare delivery organization (Banner Health) along with a successful national insurance brand (Aetna). He brings four decades of experience across the health care ecosystem—including private practice, start-ups, large integrated delivery systems, and payer—to his role at Banner│Aetna.

Previously, he held leadership posts at Banner Health for 12 years, culminating in his position as the health system’s vice president of health management. There he led the development of one of the first CMMI ACO’s and guided it to becoming first in overall cost savings and one of only nine ACO’s to finish all five performance years.

Throughout his career, Dr. Groves has nurtured cutting-edge solutions that serve the quadruple aim. He led the development of a sepsis recognition algorithm that drove industry leading sepsis performance at Banner Health where he also championed, developed, and staffed one of the largest and most successful tele- ICU systems in the country resulting in over 15,000 lives saved and $800 million in cost savings.

As a health care trend authority with unique perspective on the intersection of technology, insurance, and care delivery, Dr. Groves is a highly sought-after industry contributor. His speaking engagements include health system, payer, and technology audiences at Cerner, IBM, Becker’s Healthcare, American Journal of Managed Care, the National Health Service, as well as U.S. News & World Report’s Future of Healthcare event. His work has been broadly published in clinical and industry journals and he produces The Groves Connection podcast where he hosts some of the biggest names in healthcare.

Dr. Groves received his MD from the Medical College of Georgia and trained and boarded in internal medicine, pulmonary diseases, and critical care medicine.