Daniel J. Elliott, M.D., M.S.C.E., FACP, FAAP, is the chief medical officer at Delaware First Health (DFH), a managed care subsidiary of Centene with Medicaid, Marketplace, and Medicare Advantage offerings in Delaware. He has responsibility for medical affairs, population health, and quality within DFH.
Prior to joining DFH and the Centene family, Dr. Elliott spent more than 20 years at ChristianaCare, a large regional health system centered in Northern Delaware. Most recently, he served as executive director and senior medical director of eBrightHealth ACO, a Medicare Shared Savings Program accountable care organization that generated seven straight years of savings totaling over $50 million. Through eBrightHealth ACO, he developed and led a statewide collaboration including health systems, private physicians, and federally qualified health centers focused on empowering clinicians and health systems to identify and address the fundamental drivers to improve the cost and quality of care across the full clinical spectrum. Building on the relationships developed through eBrightHealth ACO, he led a statewide post-acute task force during COVID that brought together health systems, post-acute care facilities, and state public health leaders to coordinate efforts and optimize transitions of care. He also served as senior medical director of value-based programs and network performance, where he helped develop and support infrastructure and capabilities in data management, analytics, care coordination, quality improvement, and provider support necessary for success in value-based programs.
Prior to working in these roles, Dr. Elliott served as medical director for Christiana Care Quality Partners, a clinical network developed to care for the approximately 20,000 employees and dependents of ChristianaCare in partnership with Geisinger Health Plan. Dr. Elliott has served as associate chair for research in the department of medicine at ChristianaCare, and was the project co-director and director of evaluation for Bridging the Divides, a $10-million grant from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation that developed a longitudinal care coordination program that was subsequently awarded the John Eisenberg Award for Quality and Safety from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and is currently an NCQA-certified care management program that serves patients across the region.
Dr. Elliott earned a B.A. in economics and political science from Duke University, his medical degree at Jefferson Medical College as a Delaware Institute for Medical Education and Research Scholar, and a master’s degree in clinical epidemiology with a concentration in outcomes research from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He completed his clinical training in internal medicine and pediatrics at ChristianaCare and Nemours/A.I. duPont Hospital for Children and served as chief resident in internal medicine at ChristianaCare.
Dr. Elliott has spoken nationally on population health and accountable care and published multiple papers, including in JAMA Internal Medicine and Pediatrics. He is an associate professor in the department of medicine at Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University and serves on the editorial board of the American Journal of Medical Quality. He cared for patients as a primary care physician in an urban academic clinic for more than 20 years, is the past governor of the Delaware chapter of the American College of Physicians, and previously served on the Evidence-Based Medicine Task Force for the Society for General Internal Medicine.