The Richard L. Doyle Award
for Innovation and Leadership in Healthcare

Milliman Care Guidelines' Richard L. Doyle Award for Innovation and Leadership in Healthcare, first awarded in 2009, recognizes the leaders and innovators among our clients whose use of the Milliman Care Guidelines® demonstrates support of our vision, "to advance the delivery of optimal healthcare." The Doyle Award recipient is selected annually from among Milliman Care Guidelines client applicants.

Dr. Richard L. Doyle was the originator of the Milliman Care Guidelines. Dr. Doyle was Chief-of-Staff at Mercy Hospital in San Diego in the 1980s when he began the visionary creation of clinical guidelines designed to help improve hospital efficiency and quality performance. Dr. Doyle joined Milliman (then Milliman & Robertson) and the first set of the Healthcare Management Guidelines was published in 1990. Since then, the Care Guidelines have developed into seven distinct clinical products which are accessed through a variety of software options. They are now used to support the care management of more than one in three Americans. We are pleased to name this award in honor of Dr. Doyle.

Judges for this award have included:

  • Richard L. Doyle, MD – Originator, Milliman Care Guidelines
  • Liza Greenberg, RN, MPH – President, Health Project Consulting
  • Michelle Phipps – Director of Standards Development, URAC
  • Michael Millenson – President, Health Quality Advisors

Past Doyle Award Winners:

2011 Payor:     Advantage Health Solutions, Inc.
2011 Provider:     Sound Inpatient Physicians, Inc.
2010 Payor:     UnitedHealthcare
2010 Provider:     Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital
2009:     WellMed Medical Group


2012 Doyle Award

Milliman Care Guidelines customers will be notified of the timing and procedures for submitting a 2012 Doyle Award application in the coming months. Check back often for updated information.


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