Pat Geraghty

GuideWell comprises Florida’s Blue Cross Blue Shield plan, Florida Blue, which is the leading health insurer in Florida; Triple-S Management, Puerto Rico’s Blue Cross Blue Shield plan and a leading health care services company on the island; GuideWell Health, a portfolio of clinical delivery organizations; PopHealthCare and its value-based national medical group Emcara Health; GuideWell Source, which provides administrative services to federal health care programs; and WebTPA, a market leading administrator of self-funded employer health plans. The company holds majority or significant interests in a range of health solutions companies including Lucet, a behavioral health care company that provides technology-enabled support to payers, providers, and health plan members. Through a joint venture with Keralty, a multinational health business group with more than 40 years of global experience, GuideWell is expanding care delivery across Florida through more than 40 Sanitas direct care delivery locations.

GuideWell serves 38.5 million people across 50 states, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, including more than 6 million individuals in Florida.

Geraghty was the architect of the strategic restructuring that created GuideWell from the foundation of an 80-year-old health insurance company, transforming it into a health solutions organization at the forefront of reimagining the future of health in America. The GuideWell restructuring is considered a model of strategic reinvention and is featured as a capstone business case in the curriculum of Harvard Business School.

Under Geraghty’s leadership, the enterprise has received multiple recognitions for being an exceptional employer, including Florida Blue being formally certified as a Great Place to Work in 2023. Florida Blue has also been recognized as a Fortune Best Workplace for Women; a Forbes magazine 2023 Best Employer for Diversity; and was named to four different Newsweek Rankings in 2023 as “America's Greatest Workplaces 2023;” “America's Greatest Workplaces 2023 for Women;” “America's Greatest Workplaces 2023 for Parents & Family;” and “America's Greatest Workplaces 2023 for Diversity.” Florida Blue was also recognized by J.D. Power as #1 in member satisfaction among commercial health plans in Florida.

A dynamic speaker, Geraghty is considered an expert voice on a range of health care topics including health care reform, next-generation payment strategies, innovation in health care, and the benefits of wellness and prevention programming.

Geraghty is active in leading professional and community organizations. He is a member and past chair of the Florida Council of 100, a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization of Florida business leaders who advise the state’s governor on how to improve the economic growth of the state and the economic well-being of its residents.

He also serves as chair of the board for America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), and a member of the boards of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, including chair of its Health Policy & Advocacy Committee (HPAC); National Institute of Health Care Management (NIHCM), a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the effectiveness, efficiency, and quality of America’s health care system; and Tampa Electric Co. (TECO). His work with United Way, MaliVai Washington Youth Foundation and the American Cancer Society are among his most important commitments outside his board engagements.

Geraghty holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Colgate University and a Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, degree from Florida Southern College. He also has completed executive education programs at Harvard University School of Public Health and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.