America’s Health Insurance Plans, a trade group for health insurers, has named five new board members.
The Washington-based group says the new board members will be:
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John Baackes, chief executives of Los Angeles-based L.A. Care Health Plan.
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Thomas Crowell, president of Watertown, Massachusetts-based Tufts Health Plan.
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Dr. J.D. Hickey, chief executive officer of Chattanooga, Tennessee-based BlueCross BlueShield of Tennesse.
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Pamela Morris of Dayton, Ohio-based CareSource.
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Michael Neidorff, chairman of St. Louis-based Centene Corp.
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Related: Centene: Our ACA exchange plans are still doing well
Centene is a publicly traded company best known for selling Medicaid plans and public exchange plans. The other four carriers are nonprofit carriers.
Joseph Swedish, the chairman of Indianapolis-based Anthem, a publicly traded company, is set to become the AHIP chairman in 2017. Swedish will succeed Mark Ganz, the chief executive officer of Cambia Health Solutions of Portland, Oregon.