Jeffrey Bailet

With over 20 years of health care experience, Dr. Jeffrey Bailet is currently Executive Vice President of Health Care Quality and Affordability at Blue Shield of California, a 4-million-member nonprofit health plan that serves the state’s commercial, individual and government markets.

In his role at Blue Shield of California, Dr Bailet is responsible for the management and performance of company’s Network Management, Health Care Services and Wellvolution® teams. He is currently chair of the executive committee of AMGA (formerly the American Medical Group Association).

Prior to joining Blue Shield, Dr.Bailet served as Executive Vice President at Aurora Health Care and President of Aurora Health Medical Group, which includes 1,800 physicians and 900 advance practice clinicians across 180 clinics and 15 hospitals in Wisconsin and northern Illinois. Dr. Bailet was recently appointed to the Government Accountability Office’s new Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee and currently serves on the Board of the Wisconsin Medical Society. He is also a member of the Group Practice Advisory Committee of the American Medical Association.

Dr Bailet is a board-certified otolaryngologist, a Fellow of the American Academy of Otolaryngology and the American College of Surgeons.

He is a graduate of the University of Washington School of Medicine, and completed his residency in Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery at UCLA Medical Center. He also holds a M.S.P.H. in Environmental Health from the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine.