Dick Wright
Senior Partner
Richard Wright is a Senior Partner with more than 35 years of health care management experience in a wide variety of organizations. He has operated health maintenance organizations, a leading physician practice management company, hospitals, (both domestic and international), insurance companies, a healthcare technology firm, a management consulting firm and a company delivering services in the field of correctional medicine. He is a unique resource for strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions, executive coaching and evaluation/resolution of operational challenges in physician organizations.
Mr. Wright recently completed a rebuilding effort as part of the America Service Group (ASG) management team serving as the Vice Chairman of ASG and President and Chief Executive Officer of Prison Health Services. ASG is the leading provider of managed care services to the correctional healthcare market and he remains on the Board of Directors. Prior to joining ASG, Mr. Wright was Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Covation, LLC, a provider of software integration and data management services for healthcare payors until acquired by Perot Systems.
Wright was a co-founder of PhyCor, Inc., where he served as Director and Executive Vice President of Operations over a ten-year period. PhyCor, the pioneering physician practice management firm grew to 55 clinics with 3,800 physicians in 28 states with $1.2 billion in revenue. PhyCor paved the way for many of today’s health system and other health care firms working with organized physician practices.
He also held senior management roles at HCA International and its group health venture, EquiCor, while living and working in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, England, Brazil and Nashville.
Mr. Wright holds a Masters of Health Administration from Georgia State University and a Bachelor of Science degree from Michigan State University. He was honored with the GSU Institute of Health Administration Professional Achievement Award in 2006.