HealthPartners names Ginger Kakacek, MD, chief health plan medical officer

BLOOMINGTON, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--HealthPartners today announced that Ginger Kakacek, MD, has been named chief medical officer of its health plan. In this role, she’ll provide leadership and medical oversight of the health plan to ensure members and patients receive high-quality, evidence-based and cost-effective care and services. Dr. Kakacek has been a family medicine physician with the organization since 2000. She joined the health plan medical director team in 2014 and most recently serv