John Driscoll, Executive Vice President and President, U.S. Healthcare, brings more than 25 years of health care experience to Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. Driscoll oversees U.S. Healthcare for WBA as the company expands into larger, faster-growing profit pools that drive synergies across the care continuum, including provider enablement and managed service organizations, primary care, population health, home health, post-acute care, specialty pharmacy and retail pharmacy.
Driscoll joined WBA in October 2022, when WBA entered into a definitive agreement to acquire full ownership of CareCentrix, where he served as Chief Executive Officer since 2013. CareCentrix is now an integral part of WBA’s U.S. Healthcare segment and the only independent, home-centered platform that coordinates care to the home for health plans, patients and providers.
Prior to CareCentrix, Driscoll served as President at Castlight Health, a healthcare technology company. Previously, he served as Group President for new markets at Medco. He also founded and chaired the Surescripts ePrescribing Network, building the first cross-industry collaborative with competing Retail, PBM, and Health Plans cooperating to revolutionize e-prescribing.
Earlier in his career, Driscoll was a member of the executive team at Oxford Health Plans, serving as Corporate Vice President for government programs. In addition, he was selected by the White House for its Entrepreneurs in Residence program in 2011 to advise the Food and Drug Administration on new paths for innovation. He has a B.A. and M.B.A. from Harvard University, was a resident tutor at Winthrop House and holds an MPhil from Cambridge University in England. Driscoll served as a captain in the U.S. Army Reserve.