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Stephen P. Cragle, MD, FACS

Partner
St Cloud Ear, Nose & Throat Clinic
Saint Cloud, MN, United States

Stephen P. Cragle, MD is a Partner at St. Cloud Ear, Nose & Throat Clinic, P.A., a 6 partner single specialty OTO/HNS private practice providing comprehensive care throughout central Minnesota. Now in his 31st year with the practice, he has extensive local, state, and national experience in physician leadership and advocacy. He is an advocate for private practice, and his clinic has maintained an independent status despite considerable consolidation of surgical specialists into the regional health system over the past 10 years. He led an expansion and re-structuring of the St. Cloud Surgical Center the second oldest free-standing ambulatory surgical center in America, adding a large Orthopedics group and increasing overall physician ownership from 27% to 80% while increasing volume and patient satisfaction. He is an appointee to the Minnesota Medical Association Policy Council, creating policy recommendations to the MMA Board of Trustees. At the AAO/HNS he serves on the Private Practice Study Group's Practice Management Committee, the Practice Management Education Committee where he is a member of the FLEX work group and on the History and Archives Committee. He is on the Board of Governors' Socioeconomic Grassroots Committee. He is a member of Project 535, ENTPAC, and the Millennium Society. In 2015 he was elected Chair of the Board of Governors of Central Minnesota Health Network, a Clinically Integrated Network and Accountable Care Organization made up of 18 hospitals and clinics throughout central Minnesota. CMHN was accepted by CMS as an advanced APM Accountable Care Organization, and is bringing doctors and institutions together to promote value-based care in both public and private sectors.

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