TelaDoc Medical Services Selects Jason Gorevic as Chief Executive Officer

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Tue Jun 16, 2009 7:48am EDT

Seasoned healthcare business innovator and strategist to direct growth and
expansion of nation`s leading telehealth company
DALLAS--(Business Wire)--
Jason Gorevic, a prominent health care business executive has been named chief
executive officer of TelaDoc Medical Services (www.teladoc.com), the nation`s
leading telehealth company. Throughout his career, Gorevic has pioneered the
development of innovative health care services that evolved into mainstream
offerings that simultaneously delivered meaningful value to customers and
bottom-line business results. 

"TelaDoc has been paving the way for telehealth," says Samuel Havens, member of
the TelaDoc Board of Directors and former president of Prudential Health Care.
"With Jason`s outstanding leadership and experience, we will be able to leverage
TelaDoc into a new phase of growth in which we anticipate across-the-board
expansion, with accelerated adoption of the model amongst mid-large health
plans, employers, unions, and channel partners." 

Gorevic worked in various capacities at WellPoint, Inc., most recently as senior
vice president, chief marketing and product officer where he was responsible for
developing WellPoint`s Growth Strategy to identify and prioritize opportunities
for long term growth. In addition, he assumed the role of president for recently
acquired Lumenos, Inc., and is credited with driving enterprise-wide adoption of
its consumer-directed health plan, which subsequently became the company`s
fastest growing product. He also created and led the Innovation Incubator that
conceptualized and implemented a partnership with Zagat Survey to enable
consumers to rate their physicians, and acted as the company`s spokesperson with
top-tier media. 

Prior roles at WellPoint include running a $7 billion P&L, where he consistently
exceeded enrollment and financial targets. He was also responsible for a
provider contracting team that managed approximately 200 hospitals and 80,000
physicians representing $6.5 billion of medical spend. From 2002 to 2005,
Gorevic was a key member of Empire BlueCross BlueShield`s leadership team that
generated annual earnings per share growth of 15 to 20 percent resulting in a
market cap growth of 300 percent from its 2002 IPO to the acquisition by
WellPoint three years later. 

"First and foremost, Jason Gorevic is an innovative business leader who has
consistently delivered bottom-line results," says Kevin Williamson, chief
marketing officer of TelaDoc. "Over the years, he has introduced products and
services that have changed the competitive landscape. He has a proven track
record for developing and executing successful corporate growth strategies and
is an accomplished entrepreneur, having been a founder and executive in both the
health care and technology sectors." 

Gorevic has deep roots as a health care visionary. While at Oxford Health Plans,
he designed, built, and managed a first-of-its-kind telephone medical advice
service staffed by Registered Nurses to ensure appropriate utilization of health
care resources. This model has now become the industry standard. 

Gorevic received a B.A. in International Relations from the University of
Pennsylvania. He is a two-time winner of the WellPoint Pinnacle Award for
outstanding leadership and, at age 31, was named one of the 2003 Crain`s New
York Business "40 Under 40" top executives. 

"I am tremendously impressed by the TelaDoc platform," says Gorevic. "It offers
the most robust foundation in the telehealth space and is poised to deliver new
capabilities that will answer unmet needs of health care consumers. I`ve been an
executive in both entrepreneurial ventures and Fortune 50 companies, both in and
out of health care, which gives me somewhat of a unique perspective. I look
forward to applying my experience to expand the TelaDoc offering, and I expect
to rapidly deliver products and services that deliver meaningful value to our
customers." 

About TelaDoc

Founded in 2002, TelaDoc is a nationwide network of licensed, board certified
primary care physicians, providing cross coverage services on demand. TelaDoc
physicians have access to the member`s (CCR-compliant) electronic medical record
and can diagnose and treat minor non-emergency medical problems via the
telephone. All TelaDoc physicians are carefully credentialed and covered by
medical malpractice insurance provided by the TelaDoc Physician`s Association.
TelaDoc members have access to licensed physicians via the telephone 24-
hours-a-day, 365 days a year. Contact: 800.835.2362 or www.TelaDoc.com





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