Scott Hayworth

Scott Hayworth, MD, FACOG is the senior vice president and chief physician liaison officer at Optum Health, driving growth across the country as a physician leader supporting mergers, acquisitions, and new strategic partnerships. He also serves as an advisor to new initiatives. He was the CEO and market leader of the Optum Tri-State region, one of the five regions in the Optum Health nationwide network from March 2021 to January 2023.

Dr. Hayworth has a national reputation as an authority on practice administration; multispecialty group management; and adaptation to the rapidly changing environment in health care, including the transition to value. Dr. Hayworth has been the President and CEO of CareMount Medical (formerly Mount Kisco Medical Group, PC) for more than 20 years, overseeing a nearly 15-fold expansion in the size of the group prior to its becoming part of Optum Tri-State in late 2020. In 2019 Dr. Hayworth became Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of CareMount Health Solutions, LLC, a collaborative physician-owned management services organization.

Dr. Hayworth is a consultant to the Vincent Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Massachusetts General Hospital and a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell; and he is a past associate dean at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He is past chairman of the board of the American Medical Group Association. Dr. Hayworth chairs the advisory board for IKS Health; he is an advisor for MedPro; and he is a senior advisor to Arsenal Capital Partners, BioIVT, and WIRB-Copernicus Group (WCG). He is the non-executive board chair of US Digestive Health. He was selected by Becker’s Hospital Review as one of their “105 Physician Leaders to Know” in 2019 and “112 Physician Leaders of Hospitals and Health Systems” in 2018.