Misha Palecek is Chief Transformation Officer for DaVita’s U.S. Kidney Care business, where he leads growth through value-based care partnerships, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and care delivery innovation.
Since joining DaVita in 2005, Misha has held senior leadership roles across strategy, operations, and transformation. His experience includes regional and divisional operations, oversight of more than 120 sites of care, and leadership of DaVita’s home dialysis strategy. He later led Paladina Health, a DaVita‑affiliated primary care startup, and served as president of ABQ Health Partners, a physician‑led multispecialty group in New Mexico. In his current role, he leads enterprise transformation efforts focused on advancing value‑based population health across health systems and physician organizations. He also founded DaVita’s Village Green program. Misha holds an MBA and a B.A. from Stanford University and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his family.
For years, the central question was whether value-based care could work at all. Today, evidence from kidney care moves us beyond that debate. The more urgent questions are who can scale these models effectively and whether the system will sustain what’s working long enough for it to endure.