Becker's Hospital Review

Sign up for the COMPLIMENTARY Becker's Hospital Review CEO Report & CFO Report E-Weeklies at www.BeckersHospitalReview.com or call (800) 417-2035 Square, Pa.-based Catholic Health East. He joined WellPoint as it underwent massive changes, stemming from the departure of former CEO Angela Braly due to shareholder disapproval. Mr. Swedish currently oversees a health insurer that posted $2.7 billion of profit on more than $60.7 billion of revenue, and he has actively pushed the company to offer health plans on the new health insurance marketplaces. Mr. Swedish has also held senior leadership roles with Centura Health in Denver and two different Florida divisions within HCA. hospitals, as well as a hospital and division CEO. Anthony Tersigni, EdD. Dr. Tersigni serves as president and CEO of Ascension, based in St. Louis. Within the $16 billion Ascension is Ascension Health, the nation's largest Catholic and nonprofit health system with roughly 100 hospitals across 21 states. Dr. Tersigni also oversees Ascension Health Care Network, a joint venture with Oak Hill Capital Partners that is the first for-profit Catholic health system, and Ascension Ventures, a strategic healthcare venture fund. Dr. Tersigni is considered the first president and CEO of Ascension, which reorganized in January 2012 and formed all of its current subsidiaries. Previously, he served as president and CEO of Ascension Health since 2004, and he also was Ascension Health's executive vice president and COO. Before taking on corporate responsibilities within Ascension, Dr. Tersigni was president and CEO of Detroit-based St. John Providence Health System, Ascension's largest integrated network. Marilyn Tavenner. In the spring of 2013, Congress did something it hadn't done in seven years — it confirmed a CMS administrator. Ms. Tavenner was the acting administrator for more than a year before being confirmed, succeeding Donald Berwick, MD, who resigned from CMS in December 2011. As administrator, Ms. Tavenner manages the $820 billion agency, which also is the largest payer in the country, and oversees the implementation of several PPACA reforms. Every year, CMS updates prospective reimbursement schedules for providers. For the 2014 federal fiscal year, hospitals, ASCs and other providers received marginal increases in Medicare reimbursements. CMS also unveiled its new two-midnight rule, which essentially tells providers that inpatient admissions are considered reasonable and necessary as long as they span at least two midnights. Prior to her current role, Ms. Tavenner served other roles with CMS and Virginia's health administration. She also spent 25 years as a nurse with HCA Bernard Tyson. Mr. Tyson took over as chairman and CEO of Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, Calif., in 2013 after George Halvorson announced his retirement. As CEO, he is the strategic leader of a 38-hospital system and health insurer that covers 9.1 million people and has more than $50 billion in annual operating revenue. Mr. Tyson has been with Kaiser for almost 30 years. He served as president and COO for more than two years before attaining his current role. Mr. Tyson has also been an individual hospital administrator, a division president overseeing Kai- ser's California business and an executive vice president on the health plan and hospital operations side. He recently spoke with the New York Times about how he manages Kaiser, saying leaders are at their best when they "understand differences in personalities and how people process information." Richard Umbdenstock. For the past seven years, Mr. Umbdenstock has served as president and CEO of the American Hospital Association, the largest hospital lobbying group in the country with more than 5,000 hospital and healthcare organization members. When he took the reins, he knew massive change and reform were forthcoming. AHA supported healthcare reform going into 2010, as the PPACA expanded coverage to tens of millions of uninsured Americans, providing financial and societal benefits to hospitals and patients alike. However, since the law went into effect, Mr. Umbdenstock and AHA have dealt with several curveballs, including sequestration, the Supreme Court decision on Medicaid, the continued cuts of disproportionate share hospital payments and other reimbursement issues. At the beginning of 2013, Mr. Umbdenstock and AHA outlined roughly a dozen priorities for the industry, including the acceleration of payment and delivery reforms, the elimination of preventable infections, the advancement of health IT, price and quality transparency and emphasis on population health. Before joining AHA, Mr. Umbdenstock served as president and CEO of Providence Health & Services in Renton, Wash. n SIGNED. SEALED. DELIVERED. 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