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Richard Ashworth

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Chief Executive Officer at WellMed Optum Florida
📍 Tampa, Florida, United States

Richard Ashworth is a healthcare executive focused on building scalable care delivery platforms that improve outcomes and reduce costs. He has extensive experience in shifting organizations toward value-based and home-centered care, most recently as President and CEO of Amedisys. He holds a Doctor of Pharmacy from Nova Southeastern University and an MBA.

Richard lives in Tampa, Florida, with his wife, four children, and three dogs. He is an avid non-fiction reader, with a love for history and continuous learning. He enjoys spending his free time on, under, or near the water, with passions for boating, scuba diving, and deep-sea fishing.

He has a unique career trajectory, having started as a store clerk at Walgreens in 1992 and rising to become its President nearly three decades later.

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Experience
25 Years
Current Role
Chief Executive Officer
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Tampa, Florida, United States
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Healthcare at Home
His career has centered on advancing care models, like those at Amedisys and Contessa Health, that bring high-quality clinical services directly to patients' homes.
Value-Based Care
He is focused on evolving healthcare organizations toward value-based models, a key theme in his leadership and the recent Amedisys merger with Optum.
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Career

Work history

4-2026
Chief Executive Officer
WellMed Optum Florida
1-2026
Chair of the Board of Directors
DispatchHealth
5-2023
Board Member
Tivity Health
4-2023 - 2-2026
President and CEO
Amedisys
1-2022
Board Member
Free Market Health
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Education
1995 - 1999
PharmD
Nova Southeastern University
2001 - 2004
Masters in Business Administration (MBA)
University of Phoenix
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