Dr. Ish Bhalla is the associate medical director of behavioral health value transformation at Blue Cross NC. He is a graduate of Case Western Reserve University (BS), University of Toledo College of Medicine (MD), and UCLA (MS in Health Policy and Management). Dr. Bhalla completed residency and fellowship training at Yale University, is board certified in Adult and Forensic Psychiatry, and is an alum of the National Clinician Scholars Program at UCLA. He has a strong interest in the delivery of value based behavioral health care.
Blue Cross NC is in its second year of a long-term strategy to improve behavioral health access, quality and efficiency by focusing on whole-person care.