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The following is a list of notable executives of companies in the United States health insurance industry.

List of chief officers

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• 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 corporate officers

• Stephen J. Hemsley, executive chairman and former chief executive officer of Aetna
• Joshua Kushner, co-founder and vice-chairman of Oscar Health since 2012

Notable former executives

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• 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
• Morgan Bulkeley, former president of the Aetna Life Insurance Company who oversaw the addition of health insurance policies in 1899
• Richard T. Burke, founder of UnitedHealth and chairman of the board from 2006 to 2017
• Clair Carlton Criss, president of Mutual Benefit Health & Accident Association until his retirement in 1949
• William H. Donaldson, former chairman, president, and chief executive officer of Aetna
• George Halvorson, former chairman and chief executive officer of Kaiser Permanente
• 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
• Kiran C. Patel, former chairman of the board of WellCare and previous owner of Freedom Health and Optimum Healthcare
• 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
• Wendell Potter, former vice president of Cigna who became a whistleblower and advocate of healthcare reform
• J. Patrick Rooney, chairman, president, and chief executive 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
• Wayne T. Smith, former chief operating officer of Humana
• 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

See also

• List of United States insurance companies
• List of chief executive officers

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