Chip Kahn, longtime president and CEO of the Federation of American Hospitals, plans to retire at the end of 2025.
Mr. Kahn has led the FAH for 24 years, serving as only the third CEO since the group’s founding in 1966. He has steered the organization through five presidential administrations and 13 Congresses, championing bipartisan health policy reform, particularly around healthcare access and coverage.
During his tenure, Mr. Kahn helped create the Hospital Quality Alliance and played a key role with the National Quality Forum, contributing to a national strategy for quality improvement.
“What an honor to have an opportunity for a quarter century — and during a consequential period of health policy making — to be the play caller for this important hospital sector. Much has been accomplished,” Mr. Kahn said in a June 6 news release. “Now it is time for a career turn to work on policy from another vantage point. I look forward to engaging in efforts to foster healthcare affordability, coverage and quality improvement.”
Before joining the FAH in 2001, Mr. Kahn served as president of the Health Insurance Association of America. He began his career in politics, managing former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s early campaigns and serving as a health policy aide on Capitol Hill in the 1980s and 1990s.
Mr. Kahn will retire Dec. 31. FAH’s board has hired the consulting firm Korn Ferry to aid in a search for his successor.
