23 payer CEO moves in 2024:
- L.A. Care Health Plan named Martha Santana-Chin as its next CEO in December.
- 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.
- Sutter Health Plan named Aparna Abburi as CEO and senior vice president of population health and health plan services in December.
- UnitedHealthcare’s former CEO, Steve Nelson, was named president of Aetna in November.
- Medical Mutual named its CFO Tony Helton as interim CEO in November.
- Centene’s Florida subsidiary, Sunshine Health Plan, named Charlene Zein plan president and CEO in November.
- UPMC Health Plan named Mary Beth Jenkins president and CEO in October.
- Consortium Health Plans named Lori Schoonmaker as CEO in October.
- Point32Health president and CEO Cain Hayes left the company in September after three years in his role. Eileen Auen is serving as interim CEO.
- AHIP selected Pat Geraghty, president and CEO of Florida Blue and parent company Guidewell, to serve a second year as chair in September.
- Aetna named Lisa Gifford CEO of its Oklahoma business in August.
- Humana named Eric Doeh CEO and plan president in Michigan in July.
- Centene named Nathan Landsbaum CEO of markets and Medicaid in July.
- Capital District Physicians’ Health Plan named Brian O’Grady as president and CEO in June.
- BCBS Michigan named Tricia Keith as its next president and CEO in May.
- BCBS Louisiana named Bryan Camerlinck as its next CEO in May.
- Optum promoted its president Heather Cianfrocco to CEO and named Dhivya Suryadevara as CEO of Optum Financial Services.
- Humana named Jim Rechtin to be its next CEO in January.
- Cigna named Brian Evanko president and CEO of its insurance business in January, in addition to his role as CFO at Cigna Group.
- Sanford Health Plan named Tommy Ibrahim, MD, as president and CEO in January.
- AmeriHealth Caritas named Kelly Munson as CEO in January.
- Centene named Michael Carson as president and CEO of Wellcare, its Medicare Advantage business, in January.
- Fallon Health named Manny Lopes as president and CEO in January.
