Dr. Jacob ‘Jake’ Quinton, MD, MSHS, FACP is a primary care internist and a medical officer for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) where he leads the equity strategy for the Patient Care Models Group (PCMG) and designs and implements value-based payment models focused on specialty care and interactions between primary care clinicians and specialists. Before CMMI, Jake completed a fellowship in general internal medicine and health services research at UCLA in the National Clinician Scholars Program and was an NIH-funded health disparities researcher focused on Medicaid managed care organizations. He trained in primary care – internal medicine at Yale New Haven Hospital and before entering medicine was a high school science teacher in New Orleans, LA.
