Jeffrey Brenner is the CEO of the

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Biography

Brenner is the founder of the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers, and was its executive director from 2006 to 2017. The Camden Coalition provides

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to high-risk patients in order to reduce healthcare costs. This practice is known as "hotspotting". The program, which began in Camden, New Jersey, has since expanded to ten cities, including Allentown, Pennsylvania,

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, Kansas City, Missouri, and

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. Brenner won a

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in 2013. He left his role as executive director of the Camden Coalition in 2017 to join UnitedHealthcare as Senior Vice President of Integrated Health and Social Services. Brenner and his notable discovery of medical hotspots in impoverished communities in Camden, New Jersey, was featured in an episode of

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'' called "The Pot Republic," in episode 12 of the 2011 season. He became the CEO of the

in 2021.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Brenner, Jeff Living people 21st-century American physicians MacArthur Fellows People from New Jersey Vassar College alumni Year of birth missing (living people) Rutgers University alumni Members of the National Academy of Medicine