Ashley Yeats, MD, FACEP, FCFPC(EM), CHIE
Vice President, Medical Operations, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
Dr. Ashley Yeats joined Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts in November 2019. His areas of responsibility include clinical partnership innovation, reproductive & gender affirming strategy, mental health strategy, physician & psychologist utilization review, medical policy administration, care management consultation, clinical appeals, and corporate peer review.
Yeats has practiced in the Boston area for 20 years, following a career in academic emergency medicine at the Ottawa Civic Hospital in Canada. He has held executive and medical leadership positions within system hospitals and the liability captive insurance carrier of the Harvard teaching hospital community. He previously served as Chief Medical Officer and Vice President of Healthcare Quality & Clinical Integration within the Beth Israel Lahey Health System, with operational oversight of hospital-based, non-nursing patient care services, infection control, pharmacy, clinical program development and physician recruitment, graduate medical education, credentialing, and healthcare quality & patient safety. Prior roles include serving as Associate Medical Director of the CRICO Academic Medical Center Patient Safety Organization (AMC PSO) and as Associate Chief of Emergency Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Milton Hospital and Brigham & Women’s Faulkner Hospital.
He completed a dual residency in family medicine and emergency medicine at the University of Ottawa, receiving certification as a patient safety officer from Intermountain in Salt Lake City, Utah and a medical degree from the University of Western Ontario, Canada.
In addition to his current role at Blue Cross, Dr. Yeats is an assistant professor at the Boston University School of Medicine where he teaches on topics of quality and patient safety, also lecturing in the Northeastern University Physician Assistant Program. He sits on the board of directors of the Massachusetts Alliance for Communication & Resolution after Medical Injury and the Health Care Transformation Task Force in Washington, DC.