Shawn Stinson, MD, FACP

Senior Vice President, Healthcare Innovation and Improvement
BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina

Shawn Stinson serves as Senior Vice President of Healthcare Innovation and Improvement at BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina. In this role, he is responsible for clinical programs including care management, value-based reimbursement, quality, pharmacy, clinical informatics, and medical staff affairs. Prior to joining BlueCross BlueShield, he was a practicing internist and the Chief Quality & Patient Safety Officer of Palmetto Health (now known as Prisma Midlands).

A native of Greensboro, NC, Dr. Stinson earned his undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. He attended medical school at Duke University and completed his internship and residency training at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Internal Medicine. After residency training, he began his career on the faculty at Hopkins in 1991 where he remained until coming to the University of South Carolina School of Medicine in 1995. He continues in the role of adjunct associate professor at the USC medical school where he lectures on clinical applications of physiology principles.

He is a Fellow in the American College of Physicians. Since coming to BlueCross in 2014, Dr. Stinson has been working on efforts to advance value-based reimbursement and population health.