The following payer executive changes were announced in May:
1. Centene named Drew Asher executive vice president and CFO.
2. Cigna named Jamie Benedict president of its Medicare Advantage plans in Ohio.
3. HealthPartners named Randy Billings senior vice president of provider partnerships.
4. Centene named Suzy DePrizio senior vice president and chief marketing officer.
5. Christal Eshelman was appointed regional manager of integrated managed care in North Central Washington for Community Health Plan of Washington.
6. Sutter Health | Aetna named Jeremy Gallus head of market development.
7. CVS Health named Shawn Guertin, former CFO of Aetna, its new CFO.
8. The newly combined Tufts Health Plan and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care named Cain Hayes its new CEO.
9. Trent Haywood, MD, has been named chief medical officer of Zing Health.
10. Health Alliance Plan named Brian Keane vice president of Medicaid.
11. Molina Healthcare appointed Brian Maddy plan president of Molina Healthcare of Wisconsin.
12. Health Alliance Plan named Kristy O'Connor Strain director of Medicare product and Medicare sales operations.
13. Sutter Health | Aetna named Mordechai Pavlovsky, MD, chief medical officer and head of operations and innovation.
14. Excellus BlueCross BlueShield appointed James Reed CEO of the nonprofit health plan and its parent company, The Lifetime Healthcare Companies.
15. Jayson Ronk joined Blue Cross of Idaho as vice president of public affairs.
16. Priority Health promoted Megan Schmidt to senior vice president of employer solutions, the health insurer said in a news release.
17. Combined Insurance named Richard Williams president.
18. First Choice Health hired Troy Williams as vice president of health system partnerships, the health insurer said in a news release.
19. Sam Yamoah will join Cambia Health Solutions as chief strategy and innovation officer.
20. Cambia Health Solutions named Amadou Yattassaye executive vice president of market growth.