Jim Glafkides

Jim Glafkides provides executive oversight for Value-based Care division. Additionally, he is actively involved in Satellite Healthcare’s response to the future direction of kidney care as addressed in the Executive Order on Advancing American Kidney Health.

Under Jim’s leadership, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) selected Satellite Healthcare to implement a Kidney Contracting Entity (KCE) Model demonstration with a goal to enhance proactive, preventive and cost-effective kidney care for Medicare beneficiaries with late-stage chronic kidney disease or end stage kidney disease. Central to this effort is bringing to patients the innovations, high-quality outcomes and convenience associated with home dialysis, while preparing for transplant.

Prior to his role at Satellite Healthcare, Jim was a Senior Contracts Manager and managed a portfolio of hospital, skilled nursing, mental health, home health and value-based dialysis contracts for Kaiser Permanente’s Northern California Region. He worked in collaboration and conjunction with its Health Plan/Hospital and Physician leadership teams to ensure patients obtained access to medical services not provided within the Kaiser integrated system. Prior to his contracting role, he served as an analyst for its end stage renal disease operations.

Jim graduated the University of California, Davis, with a Bachelor of Science degree in Exercise Science – Exercise Physiology, and Saint Mary’s College with a Master of Science degree in Health Services Administration.