List of health insurance chief executive officers in the United States

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The following is a list of notable current and former chief executive officers of companies in the United States health insurance industry.

List of chief executive officers

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (December 2024)

Mark Bertolini, chief executive officer of Oscar Health and previous CEO of Aetna
Gail Koziara Boudreaux, chief executive officer and president of Elevance Health
Thomas B. Considine, chief executive officer of the National Conference of Insurance Legislators and former chief operating officer of MagnaCare
David Cordani, chief executive officer, president, and chairman of Cigna
Karen Ignagni, chief executive officer of EmblemHealth
David Joyner, chief executive officer and president of CVS Health
Sarah London, chief executive officer of Centene Corporation
Jim Rechtin, chief executive officer and president of Humana
Andrew Witty, chief executive officer of UnitedHealth Group

List of former chief executive officers

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (December 2024)

Leonard Abramson, founder and former chief executive officer of U.S. Healthcare
Angela Braly, president and chief executive officer of WellPoint from 2007 to 2012
Phil Bredesen, founder and former chief executive officer of HealthAmerica Corporation, as well as the founder and first chairman of Coventry Health Care
Bruce Broussard, former chief executive officer of Humana
William H. Donaldson, former chairman, president, and chief executive officer of Aetna
George Halvorson, former chairman and chief executive officer of Kaiser Permanente
Stephen J. Hemsley, executive chairman and former chief executive officer of Aetna
Cleve Killingsworth, former chief executive officer of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
Karen S. Lynch, president and chief executive officer of CVS Health from 2021 to 2024
John D. MacArthur, former president, chairman of the board, and chief executive officer of Bankers Life
Michael McCallister, chief executive officer of Humana from 2000 to 2012
William W. McGuire, chief executive officer of UnitedHealth until he stepped down along with director William G. Spears following a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigation in 2006
Michael Neidorff, president and chief executive officer of Centene from 1996 to 2022
Patrick H. Conway, president and chief executive officer of Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina from 2017 to 2019 until his resignation following an arrest for DWI and child abuse
J. Patrick Rooney, chairman, president, and chief executive officer of Golden Rule Insurance Company until his retirement in 1996
John Rowe, chief executive officer of Aetna from 2000 to 2006
V. J. Skutt, president and chief executive officer of Mutual of Omaha until 1984, later named chairman emeritus
Brian Thompson, chief executive office of UnitedHealthcare from 2021 until his killing in 2024
Bernard Tyson, former chief executive officer of Kaiser Permanente
Ron Williams, chairman and chief executive officer of Aetna from 2001 to 2011

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