Chutes & Ladders—CMS names Middle for Medicare deputy admin; Bon Secours Mercy Well being reveals first chief digital officer
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Facilities for Medicare & Medicaid Providers
(LinkedIn)
Meena Seshamani, M.D., was named as the following deputy administrator and director of Middle for Medicare, efficient July 6.
Seshamani involves the Facilities for Medicare & Medicaid Providers (CMS) from MedStar Well being, the place she was vp of medical care transformation and oversaw inhabitants well being and value-based care initiatives. She was additionally an assistant professor of otolaryngology-head and neck surgical procedure on the Georgetown College Faculty of Drugs.
Seshamani is no stranger to well being coverage. Her time at MedStar was preceded by a place on the Division of Well being and Human Providers (HHS), the place she helped implement the Inexpensive Care Act because the director of the Workplace of Well being Reform. She additionally just lately led the Biden-Harris Transition HHS Company Overview Group.
In her new place, Seshamani will head the Middle for Medicare’s efforts concentrating on these 65 years and older, these with disabilities and people with end-stage renal illness with Medicare protection. She’ll step in for Cheri Rice, who has held the function in an appearing capability.
Bon Secours Mercy Well being
(LinkedIn)
Jason Szczuka has been tapped by Bon Secours Mercy Well being to function the Catholic well being system’s first chief digital officer.
Szczuka has held digital roles at startups and huge payers alike.
The previous consists of Brighter, a digital well being plan engagement platform that was acquired by Cigna in late 2017. Szczuka stayed at Cigna and till just lately served as its chief digital officer in command of main digital-first development initiatives. Different names on his résumé embody UnitedHealth Group and GE Capital.
With Bon Secours Mercy Well being, Szczuka will lead an analytics, IT and innovation crew that can assist the system’s adoption of digital companies assembly sufferers’ wants and enhance their care experiences. He’ll report back to CEO John Starcher.
Flume Well being
(Flume Well being)
Ann Joo Kim is becoming a member of newly launched well being plan administration platform Flume Well being as its chief working officer.
Kim just lately spent a 12 months and a half as program director of Haven, the ill-fated workforce well being advantages enterprise fashioned by Amazon, JPMorgan Chase and Berkshire Hathaway.
Alongside consulting gigs, her background additionally features a decade at Amalgamated Life Insurance coverage Firm—4 years as its vp of strategic planning and 6 as its senior vp answerable for claims, pension and customer support.
In her new function on the startup, Kim shall be working to scale operations and speed up the platform’s adoption by self-insured employers.
HCA Healthcare
(Regional Medical
Middle of San Jose)
Kenneth West has stepped up because the president and CEO of HCA Healthcare’s Regional Medical Middle of San Jose.
West has been with HCA Healthcare since 2009, starting his time as affiliate chief working officer at its Chippenham & Johnston-Willis Medical Middle in Richmond, Virginia. He adopted that place with roles because the vp, chief working officer and ethics and compliance officer of the system’s Medical Middle of Trinity in Trinity, Florida.
West was named as Regional Medical Middle’s chief working officer upon his arrival in 2018. Now on the high of the 1,300-plus worker hospital’s management chain, he shall be answerable for advancing its tradition, operations, medical high quality, funds and development.
West is changing Tomi Rybe, who was beforehand tapped by HCA Healthcare to function the president and CEO of its Good Samaritan Hospital, additionally in San Jose.
> The Nationwide High quality Discussion board has introduced Dana Gelb Safran, M.D., as its subsequent president and CEO, efficient Aug. 16.
> College of Maryland Higher Chesapeake Well being President and CEO Lyle E. Sheldon will retire at the top of the 12 months after 34 years with the well being system.
> Edifecs, a well being tech firm targeted on interoperability, analytics and value-based care funds, named Venkat Kavarthapu as its new CEO. Sunny Singh, who at present holds the place, will transition to chairman of the board.
> Biofourmis, a digital care and digital therapeutics firm, has tapped Sheeza Khawar Hussain as its first-ever chief industrial officer.
> Greenback Common has appointed Albert Wu, M.D. as vp and chief medical officer to assist the retailer’s deliberate growth of its healthcare choices.
> UNC Well being Southeastern has named Chris Ellington as its new president and CEO following the retirement of Joann Anderson deliberate for Dec. 31.
> AdventHealth Hendersonville will see Brandon Nudd tackle the mantles of president and CEO on Aug. 1.
> Wellframe, a digital care administration firm, has appointed Teladoc vet Terry Beck as its senior vp of development.
