Building the operating system of modern payer growth.
I'm D'Aundre Martin, Director of Payer Growth at Azara Healthcare. I help payers, providers, and digital health companies turn complicated healthcare economics into clean, executable strategy.
- 8+ yrs
- in healthcare strategy
- 3 sides
- payer · provider · platform
- Cornell '26
- MBA / MS Healthcare Leadership
Healthcare doesn't have a vision problem. It has a wiring problem.
The next decade of healthcare won't be won by the org with the loudest mission statement. It'll be won by the team that can quietly connect a payer contract to a quality measure to a clinician's workflow, without losing the patient in the process.
I work at the seam where payer strategy, provider operations, and digital infrastructure meet. That's where margin lives. That's where outcomes move. That's where I show up.
Four pillars I keep coming back to.
All POVs →Treating payer contracts and network growth like product surfaces, measurable, iterable, and built for scale.
Bridging the gap between elegant VBC contracts and the messy day-to-day of clinics that have to live inside them.
Funding and deploying tech that actually moves MLR, quality, and patient experience, not vanity dashboards.
Designing for the populations the system was never optimized for. Good for outcomes, good for margin.
Let's build something that actually ships.
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