Allen Karp

Allen J.
Karp is the Executive Vice President of Healthcare Management and Transformation at Horizon BCBSNJ.
Mr. Karp has responsibility for Horizon BCBSNJ’s health care value strategy and clinical and network operations.
Prior to joining Horizon BCBSNJ, Mr. Karp held senior leadership positions with Coventry Healthcare, Aetna and MedPartners Inc. He served as Senior Vice President at Coventry Healthcare where he led its national network and the development of the company’s Accountable Care Organization (ACO) and high-performance network strategy.
He was also responsible for First Health, a Coventry Healthcare Company providing a national, integrated PPO network.
At Aetna, Mr. Karp held the position of Vice President of Healthcare Delivery, where he developed regional and national network strategy and managed provider contracting, clinical operations and medical economics.
Mr. Karp also held the position of President of the Eastern Division for MedPartners where he had responsibility for multiple physician groups and independent practice associations (IPAs) with revenue in excess of $1 billion.
Mr. Karp previously served on the Board of Directors for Cota, which builds solutions for health care to analyze, visualize, report and manage real-world evidence.
He was a member of Cota’s finance and compensation committees.
He also served as Co-Chair of the Board of the Newark Museum of Art, Chair of Innovate R/X and the Boards of Abacus Insights and the Horizon Foundation.
He currently serves as lead director for Outcomes Matter Innovations and the Advisory Board of Forge Health.
In 2018, Mr. Karp was named as a Leader in Health Care in the NJBIZ Vanguard Series for his work in pioneering the implementation of value-based health care in New Jersey and ROI NJ Influencers in Healthcare in 2019 and 2020.
Mr. Karp earned a bachelor's degree in commerce from Rider University and a master's degree in business administration from Wilmington University.