Deputy Chief Psychiatric Officer
CVS Health/Aetna
Tucson, Arizona
Deborah Fernandes-Turner, DO
AVP, Deputy Chief Psychiatric Officer
Dr. Deborah Fernandez-Turner is the AVP and Deputy Chief Psychiatric Officer for Aetna, a CVS Health company. In this role, Dr. Fernandez-Turner oversees quality assurance, utilization management and fraud, waste and abuse teams for Aetna.
Prior to this role, Dr. Fernandez-Turner was Children’s Medical Administrator for Mercy Maricopa, an Aetna Medicaid plan in Arizona. In this role, she was responsible for the oversight of psychiatric medical programs covering over 400,000 covered lives (children alone) as well as Quality Management, Utilization Management and Medical Management programs operated by the RBHA for children and adolescents in compliance with Federal and State laws and contractual requirements. With a focus on patient and family centered, evidence-based care, she also helped create programs and policies for the Medicaid plan in Maricopa County
Dr. Fernandez-Turner is Board Certified both in General Psychiatry as well as Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She graduated from New York University, then Nova Southeastern College of Osteopathic Medicine, and completed a psychiatric residency at Long Island Jewish Medical Center–Hillside hospital and a child psychiatry fellowship at the University of Arizona. Prior to her work for Aetna, she has held administrative and clinical positions in both private and public sectors in Arizona and Minnesota. She is a fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
I13 - Managed Care and Value-based Payments
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
2:45 PM – 3:45 PM ET