CareCounsel - the Leading Provider of Healthcare Advocacy and Assistance Services

Company Background

CareCounsel is a privately held company based in San Rafael, California. Founded in 1996, CareCounsel is the leading provider of employer-sponsored healthcare assistance and advocacy services.

Company Mission
CareCounsel helps employees and their families navigate the complex healthcare environment through an employer-sponsored benefit that provides consumer education, advocacy and access to expert healthcare resources and information.

Company Founder
Lawrence N. Gelb is the Company’s President and CEO. Before founding CareCounsel, Dr. Gelb held senior positions at Foundation Health Corporation, Occupational Health Services, Preferred Health Care and Kaiser Permanente’s Total Health Care Program. He has served on the clinical faculty of the Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, was a founding member of the National Advisory Board of the Institute for Behavioral Healthcare and has served on the editorial boards of Practice Strategies and Behavioral Healthcare Tomorrow. As Director of the Partnership for Healthcare Excellence, Dr. Gelb chaired “Demand Management in Action: the First National Conference on Consumer-Focused Solutions to Improve Health Status and Member Satisfaction.”

Dr. Gelb has an AB from Harvard College where he graduated magna cum laude and an MBA from the Harvard University School of Business Administration. Before getting his MBA, he earned an MS in Health and Medical Sciences from the University of California at Berkeley and a Doctorate of Mental Health from the University of California at San Francisco. Dr. Gelb also serves on the Board of Directors of the YMCA of San Francisco, is a Trustee of Cate School and is a founding member of Harvard Business School’s Healthcare Initiative Advisory Board.

National Advisory Board

Peter Burki
Chief Executive Officer
LifeCare.com

Robert Carr, MD
VP, Employee Health Management
GlaxoSmithKline

Michael Freeman, MD
Founding Chairman
Behavioral Healthcare Tomorrow

Bruce Gelb
Director (retired)
The U.S. Information Agency

Michael Goldberg
General Partner
Mohr, Davidow Ventures

Regina Herzlinger, Ph.D.
McPherson Professor of Business Administration
Harvard University School of Business Administration

Clark Kerr
President
21st Century Consumer

Carol Patterson, Dr.P.H.
Executive Director
Marin Community Clinic

John Sequeira
Principal
American Institute of Ethics

Robert Temer
Founder
Occupational Health Services, Inc.