A Conversation with Thomas Brown

Thomas Brown serves as the Chief Executive Officer for Eye Specialty Group, in Memphis, TN.  [Provident Practice Management Services, LLC and Provident ASC Holdings, LLC in Memphis, Tennessee.] He oversees a management team and staff of approximately 250 serving six ophthalmology and optometry practices with eleven locations and four ambulatory surgery centers, spanning over multiple cities and states in the Mid-South area. Thomas moved to Memphis in 2006 to serve as Administrator for Eye Specialty Group and Ridge Lake Ambulatory Surgery Center. In 2015, he helped form Provident Practice Management Services to offer management services to Eye Specialty Group and other area eye care practices. He then went on to form Provident ASC Holdings to effectively own and manage a group of ophthalmology ASCs in the Memphis metropolitan area in 2017.

Thomas received his undergraduate degree from Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. He earned his juris doctor from the University of Alabama School of Law in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He has over twenty-five years of healthcare industry experience with legal and management responsibilities in hospitals, medical practices, and ambulatory surgery center settings.