Joseph Schwartz Email Address

PRESIDENT and Chief Executive Officer

WESTMED Practice Partners LLC provides healthcare management services to physicians and hospitals.

Dr. Schwartz is founding President and CEO of WESTMED Medical Group (WMG) which was formed in 1996. He is also CEO of Optum Practice Partners (OPP) a physician management services company, which was formed in 2011 and acquired by Optum in 2014.Since its founding, the medical group has grown to over 350 physicians as a multi-specialty group practice with 10 locations in Westchester County, New York and Fairfield CT. WMG embraced the triple aim and is proud to have transitioned to value-based care with a successful ACO and strong results for quality efficiency and service. In his medical career, Dr. Schwartz has been committed to improving the health of the community by providing coordinated, efficient, quality patient care. To accomplish this goal, he and WESTMED were early adopters of healthcare IT, collaborating with many innovative IT vendors in the areas of process and system redesign to improve care. OPP has continued to focus on lean ambulatory healthcare transformation. Improvements in both operational and clinical efficiency were achieved with analytically-based work flow redesign facilitated by extensive use of automated rules and tasking engines.As WESTMED grows and evolves, Dr. Schwartz articulates WESTMED’s culture: to be the best place for patients to receive care, the best place for physicians to practice medicine and the best place for employees to work. Medical Specialties: Dr. Schwartz is a hematologist and oncologist with board certification in internal medicine, medical oncology, hematology and blood banking.