Based in San Diego, Spencer Doty, MBA, CPO, is Founder and President of ARCLYFT Health and an ABC board-certified prosthetist and orthotist (Certification #CPO02845). He has spent more than 20 years across the DME/O&P healthcare landscape, with particularly extensive experience in California. His background spans direct patient care, multi-site provider operations, payer relationships, contracting, utilization management, network strategy, business development, and executive leadership. This combination of clinical expertise and operator-side experience informs ARCLYFT Health's approach to helping healthcare organizations better understand and manage DME/O&P.

Spencer previously served as President, Chief Operating Officer, and Clinical Director of Active Life, which he founded in 2004. He spent more than 15 years in direct patient care while progressing into executive leadership, and from the earliest years of the organization, he engaged directly with the health plans, physicians, and IPAs that referred and covered care for Active Life's patients — negotiating payer contracts, managing reimbursement relationships, and navigating utilization and authorization requirements from the provider side of the table. Under his leadership, Active Life grew into a multi-state clinical organization with more than 12 locations and over 100 employees, providing complex O&P care across a broad range of patient populations and specialty service lines. In 2020, Spencer led the sale of Active Life to Ottobock, a global leader in orthotics and prosthetics.

Following the acquisition, Spencer remained with Ottobock Patient Care, ultimately serving as Vice President, Western United States, with responsibility for clinical operations across five western states.

Spencer later joined SuperCare Health, a full-service DME provider spanning respiratory care, oxygen therapy, sleep, home medical equipment, specialty pharmacy, and diabetes, as Vice President of Payer Relations & Business Development. His work included health plan strategy, contracting and capitated arrangements, Joint Operating Committees, payer escalations, and supporting M&A activity on a smaller scale. He helped expand one of the organization's largest capitated relationships and led the development and launch of its diabetes service line.

Across these roles, spanning more than two decades, Spencer has worked directly with the health plan functions responsible for DME and O&P — utilization management, contracting, vendor performance, reimbursement, and service expectations — while leading clinical and operational delivery from the provider side. That experience provides a practical understanding of not only how DME/O&P programs are structured, but how those decisions ultimately translate into day-to-day operations and patient care.

Spencer holds an MBA from La Sierra University and is board-certified through the American Board for Certification in Orthotics, Prosthetics & Pedorthics. He has served as an instructor at Loma Linda University's School of Allied Health, is a contributing author to Lovell and Winter's Pediatric Orthopaedics, 8th Edition (Wolters Kluwer), and provides expert witness services in orthotics, prosthetics, and DME matters through spencerdoty.com.