Keith G. Myers is co-founder of LHC Group and served as chairman and CEO from 1994 until the company’s merger with Optum in 2023. Mr. Myers helped establish LHC Group as a single freestanding home health agency in rural St. Landry Parish, La. Along with his wife Ginger, a nurse, and a core group of concerned residents, he began out of concern for four elderly members of his small community who were unable to access home health services due to their rural location. From this foundation, they built what would become one of the largest and highest quality in-home healthcare providers in the U.S. – a publicly traded company (NASDAQ: LHCG) with 29,000 employees supporting more than 900 agency locations serving cities, towns, and communities in 38 states and the District of Columbia.

Mr. Myers is a co-founder, board member, and current chairman of the Partnership for Quality Home Healthcare in Washington, D.C., and a co-founder and former board member of the Alliance for Home Health Quality and Innovation. In June 2003, Mr. Myers was named Regional Entrepreneur of the Year in the field of healthcare services and inducted into the National Entrepreneur of the Year Hall of Fame in November of the same year. In 2015, he was inducted into the National Home Care & Hospice Hall of Fame.

Mr. Myers has served on technical expert panels (TEP) that advise the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and other key Washington, D.C., policymakers. He has participated in data analysis and the preparation of numerous home care policy white papers, research, and presentations to CMS, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), White House Administrations, and members of both the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives. He currently serves as a Board Member of the Louisville Health Care Council, and previously served as a CEO Member of Healthcare Leadership Council in Washington, D.C., and a CEO member of the American Hospital Association.

Josh Proffitt serves as LHC Group’s president and chief executive officer. In this role, he is responsible for the development and oversight of the company’s strategic priorities and organizational growth and performance, while advancing the company’s mission and strengthening its culture enterprise-wide. He leads a strong and growing bench of seasoned executives and teams that are focused on high performance across all six of LHC Group’s pillars of excellence.

Mr. Proffitt joined LHC Group in 2008 and during his tenure at the company has served in numerous roles, including: vice president, assistant general counsel and director of mergers and acquisitions; senior vice president and chief compliance officer; executive vice president, corporate development and general counsel; executive vice president and chief financial officer; and, most recently, president and chief operating officer.

Before coming to LHC Group, he was a member of the corporate healthcare practice group with the law firm of Alston & Bird LLP, in Atlanta. Mr. Proffitt is admitted to practice law in the State of Georgia. He received a bachelor’s degree in accounting, summa cum laude, from the University of Kentucky, and graduated as a member of the Order of the Coif (top 10 in the class) from the University of Kentucky College of Law.

Mr. Proffitt currently serves as a community advisory member of the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees Healthcare Committee. He also serves as a Board of Trustees member for the University of Louisiana at Lafayette Foundation and a Board of Trustees member for the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.

Dr. Benjamin Doga joined LHC Group in 2014 as lead medical director, and currently serves as the company’s chief medical officer. He is a board-certified practicing family medicine physician. He also serves as clinical assistant professor of family and community medicine with Tulane Medical Center, and as vice chairman of the Lafayette General Medical Center Board of Directors. As a full-time member of the LHC Group leadership team, Dr. Doga provides clinical perspectives and guidance, and leads a team of more than 600 local medical directors across the nation. Dr. Doga received his bachelor’s degree in occupational therapy from Northeastern Louisiana University and his medical degree from Louisiana State University School of Medicine.

Bruce D. Greenstein joined LHC Group in 2018. As chief strategy and innovation officer, he leads the company’s value-based contracting, ACO management company, and alternative payment and delivery model strategies. He also oversees the company’s operations for technology and for the innovations business segments, as well as LHC Group’s healthcare vision initiatives. Mr. Greenstein previously served as chief technology officer (CTO) for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in Washington, D.C. He has an extensive healthcare industry background in both government and the private sector, having served as president-west for New York-based Quartet Health, CEO of Blend Health Insights, and as managing director of Worldwide Health for Microsoft. Mr. Greenstein was a cabinet member in Louisiana, serving as secretary of the Department of Health and Hospitals. He also previously ran Medicaid-managed care and waivers and demonstrations at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).