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52 12th Annual Spine, Orthopedic and Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference + The Business of Spine - call (800) 417-2035 Larry Robbins is the founder of Glenview Capital Management, a $10.9 billion hedge fund based in New York City. He owns significant stakes in several for-profit hospital chains — HCA, LifePoint, Tenet, CHS and Health Management Associates — as well as other massive healthcare companies. Jeffrey Romoff is president and CEO of UPMC in Pittsburgh, Mr. Romoff is the point man for the $10 billion integrated health system, which includes more than 20 hospitals, a health plan, advisory services and a preeminent academic medical center based in the heart of the Steel City. Paul Rothman, MD, a rheumatologist and molecular immunologist, was named CEO of Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine in 2012. He oversees a $6.5 billion academic medical center and health system that has garnered acclaim for its clinical advances both nationally and internationally. Kathleen Sebelius serves as the 21st secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, a role she has held since President Obama took office in 2009. As HHS secretary, Ms. Sebelius is responsible for the full implementation of the PPACA. Scott Serota is The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association's president and CEO, a position he's held since 2000. Before joining the Blues system, he was president and CEO of Rush Prudential Health Plans. He also is a founding member of the National Business Group on Health's Institute on Healthcare Costs and Solutions. Peter Shumlin is the 81st and current governor of Vermont, a title he has held since 2010. In 2011, he signed legislation that would create a single-payer system, providing universal healthcare coverage to all state residents by 2017. Green Mountain Care is the state-funded organization that would administer the system. Bruce Siegel, MD, a board-certified in preventive medicine, has become a leading figure for safetynet hospitals and health systems. He serves as president and CEO of America's Essential Hospitals, formerly the National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems. Wayne Smith serves as chairman, president and CEO of Community Health Systems, a for-profit hospital chain based in Franklin, Tenn., that owns, operates or leases 135 nonurban hospitals across 29 states. In fiscal year 2012, CHS and Health Management had a combined $18.9 billion in revenue. Joseph Swedish became CEO of Indianapolisbased WellPoint, the second-largest health insurer in the country, in March 2013. He 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. Marilyn Tavenner was confirmed a CMS administrator in the spring of 2013. Ms. Tavenner was the acting administrator for more than a year before being confirmed. 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. Anthony Tersigni, EdD, 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. Bernard 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. Richard Umbdenstock has served as president and CEO of the American Hospital Association for the past seven years. 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, elimination of preventable infections and price and quality transparency. n Read the full profiles at www.beckershospitalreview.com.