Saria Saccocio, MD, is the Chief Medical Officer for Essence Healthcare. Dr. Saccocio is a results-oriented healthcare leader specializing in strategic planning, program development, and equitable healthcare. She has more than 20 years of experience leading award-winning, quality programs and improving patient care across the continuum of health.
Throughout her career, Saccocio served as Chief Medical Officer with several health systems, including Prisma Health, Bon Secours, and Lifepoint Hospitals. Prior to joining Essence Healthcare, Dr. Saccocio served as Chief Medical Officer for Carelon Health where she was responsible for the clinical operations in virtual/telemedicine, care centers, and facility settings through leadership of the eastern region clinician teams. She maintained and developed Carelon’s comprehensive healthcare delivery system for Medicaid and Medicare Advantage and provided strategic and operational direction for the delivery of performance-based medical management.
Dr. Saccocio received her Doctor of Medicine from the University of Florida, and her Executive Master of Health Administration from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She completed her Family Medicine residency at the University of Miami before opening her own solo family practice.
Becker’s Hospital Review has recognized Dr. Saccocio as one of the top 100 Hospital and Health System Chief Medical Officers to Know and was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society. Her extensive civic involvement has included serving with many national, state, and local community organizations such as: the Modern Healthcare Women Advisory Board, Pisacano Leadership Foundation, South Carolina Hospital Association, United Way of Greenville County; Greenville Free Medical Clinic, the South Carolina Academy of Family Physicians, and is an Alum of the Women’s Leadership Institute and the Diversity Leadership Institute and Women of Distinction for Women’s Basketball at Furman University.
