Rupesh Shah is the President of Physician Partners, where he is responsible for Better Health Group’s provider-facing brand and healthcare management services organization (MSO).  

Rupesh has more than 35 years of experience in the healthcare and managed care sector. Before joining Better Health Group, he served as CEO of Freedom/Optimum Health Plans, where he grew Medicare Advantage membership from 25k to 135k and achieved 5-star rating two years in a row. Rupesh is a co-founder and former CEO of WellCare Health Plans, where he helped grow it to be the largest managed Medicaid plan in Florida, with 300k managed Medicaid lives and 45k Medicare Advantage HMO lives. He also served as WellCare’s Senior Executive Vice President of Market Expansion leading national expansion with the growth of Medicare Advantage into five additional states and managed Medicaid into four additional states.  

Rupesh holds a master’s in computer science and business administration from Gujarat University and an M.B.A. from the University of South Florida.