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18 Sign up for the COMPLIMENTARY Becker's Hospital Review CEO Report & CFO Report E-Weeklies at www.BeckersHospitalReview.com or call (800) 417-2035 medical school class had only five women out of approximately 75 graduates, and now nearly fifty percent of medical school students are women. Other changes present greater challenges. My message to physicians is that by joining together, we have the power to not just be witnesses to change but to shape the future of our healthcare system." Karen Ignagni. Ms. Ignagni is president and CEO of America's Health Insurance Plans, one of the largest healthcare lobbying firms in the U.S. AHIP was created in 2003 through a merger between the American Association of Health Plans and the Health Insurance Association of America. She is consistently ranked by publications and law firms as one of the most influential healthcare lobbyists on Capitol Hill. Ms. Ignagni and AHIP have been at the forefront of the PPACA debate, saying most recently that consumers received cancellation notices from their health insurers, due to PPACA requirements to cover certain benefits, "beyond what many people choose to purchase today." Previously, Ms. Ignagni was president of AAHP and director of the AFL-CIO's department of employee benefits. She also spent time within the government as a staff member on the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee and HHS. Milton Johnson. Effective Jan. 1, 2014, Mr. Johnson leads the largest for-profit hospital company in the U.S. — Hospital Corporation of America in Nashville, Tenn. — as president and CEO. He succeeds Richard Bracken, who retired from his CEO role but will remain with HCA as board chair in 2014. HCA owns and operates more than 160 hospitals and 114 ambulatory surgery centers in 20 U.S. states and London. It rakes in more revenue than any other investor-owned hospital chain — in 2012, net income totaled more than $1.6 billion in profit on $33 billion of revenue. HCA also dominates market capitalization among the for-profits at more than $20 billion. Previously, Mr. Johnson served as HCA's president and CFO. He joined HCA in 1982 as tax manager in the research and planning division. Chip Kahn. Mr. Kahn serves as president and CEO of the Federation of American Hospitals, a role he has held since 2001. FAH represents more than 1,100 investor-owned, for-profit hospitals and health systems, which make up approximately 20 percent of all community hospitals. Mr. Kahn's political and lobbying background is extensive. Before joining FAH, he led the Health Insurance Association of America, which has since merged with AAHP to form AHIP. While there, Mr. Kahn launched the insurance industry's "Harry and Louise" campaign in 1993 and 1994, which ultimately derailed President Bill Clinton's healthcare reform plans. He also influenced how the PPACA would affect hospital reimbursements. Mr. Kahn's Republican-leaning political experience began in the 1970s, when he managed the House campaigns for former Speaker Newt Gingrich. Darrell Kirch, MD. A psychiatrist and neuroscientist, Dr. Kirch is president and CEO of the Association of American Medical Colleges, the top advocacy group representing the country's 141 medical schools and 400 major teaching hospitals, academic medical centers and health systems. The AAMC has lobbied vigorously against sequestration and cuts to graduate medical education. The group has also highlighted solutions to physician shortages. Dr. Kirch assumed his position in 2006 and previously was dean of the Penn State College of Medicine and CEO of Penn State Milton S. Hershey (Pa.) Medical Center. At the AAMC's 2013 annual meeting, Dr. Kirsh said medical schools and teaching hospitals must be the vanguards of change during healthcare reform: "We are in a unique position to show leadership in academic medicine. This is a moment of truth our nation desperately needs us to seize." John Kitzhaber, MD. Gov. Kitzhaber serves as governor of Oregon, his third term in the office after serving from 1995 to 2003. Central to Gov. Kitzhaber's platform is healthcare public policy. Before seeking office, he was an emergency medicine physician in Oregon for 15 years. When Gov. Kitzhaber was part of the state legislature, he was critical to the establishment of the Oregon Health Plan, which is the state's Medicaid program for low-income residents. Gov. Kitzhaber has since taken Oregon's healthcare reform even further. CMS granted the state a waiver, signing a five-year, $1.9 billion agreement to transform Oregon's Medicaid program through new coordinated care organizations. CCOs are considered to be a model for accountable care structures, as they coordinate the physical, mental and dental care for all of the state's 600,000 Medicaid patients. In 2003, Gov. Kitzhaber established the Center for Evidence-Based Policy at

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