Richard J. Baron, MD, is president and chief executive officer of the Greenhouse Internists, P.C. Dr. Baron also serves on the Standards Committee for NCQA, the national organization that accredits HMOs, and as a trustee at the ABIM Foundation.
Dr. Baron began practice as a full-time faculty member at the Medical College of Pennsylvania. In 1989, he left his faculty position to set up Greenhouse Internists, P.C. While practicing at Greenhouse, Dr. Baron was chief medical officer at Health Partners, a non-profit Medicaid HMO, from 1988-1996, where he learned about Medicaid managed care. He has done consulting for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Center for Health Care Strategies on issues relating to Medicaid managed care and quality improvement.
In 2001, he was named to the American Board of Internal Medicine, the national independent group of 28 Internists which designs and implements the Board Certification and Maintenance of Certification process for internists and internal medicine sub-specialists. Dr. Baron has received a variety of honors, including the Directors' Award for his service in the National Health Service Corps and the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal award from the American College of Physicians for his work at Health Partners on improving delivery of preventive care services to children.
Dr. Baron got his BA in English at Harvard and his MD at Yale. He did his Internal Medicine residency at NYU-Bellevue in New York. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Geriatrics and voluntarily recertified in 1998.
