Empowering Healthcare Design

Through Innovation and Data Informatics

Population Care Design

Your healthcare consulting firm specializing in the identification of at-risk populations using data analytics.

Our Mission

Specialize in best-in-class program design for healthcare organizations to deploy cost-effective, easily accessible, and high-quality care to assist in driving improved health outcomes for their populations.

Our Vision

Provide opportunities for clients to focus on identified populations that generate new revenue streams and pathways to lower unnecessary spending across systems of care.

40+ Combined Years Experience

Clinical Healthcare Delivery Experience

Payer, Hospital, and Provider Care

Led Community and Hospital Based ACOs

Rebecca Plonsky Babigian, LICSW, has over 20 years of healthcare operations and leadership experience. She founded PCD to provide Rhode Island based clients executive and advisory support, strategy and program design, as well as population health and data informatics expertise. She understands the challenges amidst the healthcare landscape with rising high-cost utilizers, primary care and behavioral health staff shortages, staff recruitment, retention, and burnout, as well as a lack of provider and payer funding.

Most recently, Rebecca served as the CEO of Integrated Healthcare Partners (IHP). She was responsible for the overall implementation of key programming for IHP’s Accountable Entity (AE) which covers over 29,000 attributed Medicaid lives. She worked closely with 5 participating FQHCs and 3 CMHCs (all of whom are CCBHCs) to ensure meaningful advancements were achieved through programming that improved health outcomes, quality of care, while decreasing total cost of care. Ms. Plonsky has been recognized for leading innovative and cost-effective programs including the IHP Emergency Housing Program and the IHP BH Designated Triage line. Through her leadership and working with a strong team, IHP decreased the total cost of care by $45M, brought in over $35M in infrastructure and sustainability dollars and secured 27.5M in shared savings revenue.

Prior to joining the team at IHP, Rebecca joined the team at Open Minds as a Consultant. Rebecca assisted with the project design and development for an Open Minds national client. She enjoyed working alongside a team of experts to finalize an innovative behavioral health solution online platform that provides best practice and clinical resources to the end user.

Rebecca served as the National Vice President of Development, Prospect Integrated Behavioral Health for Prospect Alta Hospital Systems, LLC, based in the Northeast Region. She was responsible for the national growth and development of the Integrated Behavioral Health Service lines. She was assigned to lead multiple projects to improve the quality of care. She successfully improved patient health outcomes and added $10 million of savings and revenue to the bottom line. Ms. Plonsky also oversaw the opening of Rhode Island’s first Long Term Behavioral Health Unit and CharterCARE’s first Addiction Services Center.

Rebecca also has a decade of combined experience working directly for BCBSRI, at EOHHS at Rhode Island Medicaid, and Fellowship Health Resources.

OUR CEO

Meet Rebecca Plonsky Babigian, Chief Executive Officer