23 payer CEO moves in 2024

It’s been an unprecendented year for health plan CEOs, with new leadership at Humana, Aetna, Cigna Healthcare, Optum and multiple BCBS plans.

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23 payer CEO moves in 2024:

  1. L.A. Care Health Plan named Martha Santana-Chin as its next CEO in December.
  2. McLaren Health Care named Jessica Cromer as president and CEO of the McLaren Integrated HMO Group in December, the subsidiary that oversees the health system’s insurance arm.
  3. Sutter Health Plan named Aparna Abburi as CEO and senior vice president of population health and health plan services in December.
  4. UnitedHealthcare’s former CEO, Steve Nelson, was named president of Aetna in November.
  5. Medical Mutual named its CFO Tony Helton as interim CEO in November.
  6. Centene’s Florida subsidiary, Sunshine Health Plan, named Charlene Zein plan president and CEO in November.
  7. UPMC Health Plan named Mary Beth Jenkins president and CEO in October.
  8. Consortium Health Plans named Lori Schoonmaker as CEO in October.
  9. Point32Health president and CEO Cain Hayes left the company in September after three years in his role. Eileen Auen is serving as interim CEO.
  10. AHIP selected Pat Geraghty, president and CEO of Florida Blue and parent company Guidewell, to serve a second year as chair in September.
  11. Aetna named Lisa Gifford CEO of its Oklahoma business in August.
  12. Humana named Eric Doeh CEO and plan president in Michigan in July.
  13. Centene named Nathan Landsbaum CEO of markets and Medicaid in July.
  14. Capital District Physicians’ Health Plan named Brian O’Grady as president and CEO in June.
  15. BCBS Michigan named Tricia Keith as its next president and CEO in May.
  16. BCBS Louisiana named Bryan Camerlinck as its next CEO in May.
  17. Optum promoted its president Heather Cianfrocco to CEO and named Dhivya Suryadevara as CEO of Optum Financial Services.
  18. Humana named Jim Rechtin to be its next CEO in January.
  19. Cigna named Brian Evanko president and CEO of its insurance business in January, in addition to his role as CFO at Cigna Group.
  20. Sanford Health Plan named Tommy Ibrahim, MD, as president and CEO in January.
  21. AmeriHealth Caritas named Kelly Munson as CEO in January.
  22. Centene named Michael Carson as president and CEO of Wellcare, its Medicare Advantage business, in January.
  23. Fallon Health named Manny Lopes as president and CEO in January.
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