Rebecca Babigian brings over 20 years of experience in integrated care, health plan contracting, healthcare leadership, and business development to the OPEN MINDS team.

Prior to joining OPEN MINDS, Ms. Babigian was the Chief Executive Officer at Integrated Health Partners, where she was responsible for the overall operations and implementations of key interventions and programming of their Accountable Care which covered over 29,000 attributed Medicaid lives. She worked closely with 5 participating FQHCs and 3 CMHCs (all of whom are CCBHCs) to ensure meaningful advancements were achieved through programming that improved health outcomes, quality of care, while decreasing total cost of care. Ms. Plonsky Babigian has been recognized for leading innovative and cost-effective programs including the IHP Emergency Housing Program and the IHP BH Designated Triage line. Through her leadership and working with strong team, IHP decreased the total cost of care by $45M, brought in over $35M in infrastructure and sustainability dollars and secured 27.5M in shared savings revenue.

Previously, Ms. Babigian served as the National Vice President of Development, Prospect Integrated Behavioral Health for Prospect Alta Hospital Systems, LLC. She successfully improved patient health outcomes and added $10 million of savings and revenue to the bottom line. Before this promotion within Prospect Alta Hospital Systems, LLC, Ms. Babigian served as the Vice President of Integrated Behavioral Health, Prospect CharterCARE, In this position, Ms. Babigian provided leadership and program development expertise across the integrated behavioral health service lines.

Ms. Babigian also served as the Senior Behavioral Health Program Manager, for the Rhode Island State Executive Office of Health & Human Services, in Cranston, Rhode Island. She was the primary leader for the division and responsible for behavioral health Medicaid strategy, program innovation and implementation, policy, and contracting.

Previously, Ms. Babigian served as the Behavioral Health Program Manager, for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Rhode Island, in Providence, Rhode Island. In this role, Ms. Babigian developed innovative behavioral health programming to improve patient outcomes and address network gaps in care, provided clinical, quality and strategic oversight and analysis for behavioral health programming and was responsible for negotiating behavioral health case rates and program implementation. Prior to serving as the Behavioral Health Program Manager with the State of Rhode Island, Ms. Babigian served as a Business Analyst and Project Manager for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Rhode Island in Providence, Rhode Island.

Ms. Babigian earned her Master of Social Work from Boston College in Newton, Massachusetts. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Massachusetts.