Highmark Health president and CEO David Holmberg named chair of AHIP board

AHIP’s Board of Administrators has elected HighMark Wellbeing President and CEO David Holmberg its new board chair, successful January one, 2022. Holmberg will take the helm from Bruce Broussard, president and CEO of Humana, who is serving as AHIP Board Chair via the conclude of the calendar year.

At the helm of Highmark, Holmberg sales opportunities a $21 billion wellness insurance provider and regional hospital and physician community. 

AHIP credited Holmberg with utilizing that position to strengthen affordability, access and price, which includes bettering client encounter, introducing innovation that improves both the client and shopper encounter, and collaborating throughout the marketplace to align incentives.

Holmberg joined Highmark in 2007 and served in a sequence of executive positions, which includes president of its Diversified Enterprises, wherever he was accountable for enterprises representing a lot more than $three.5 billion in income. He was also CEO of HVHC Inc. and CEO and chairman for HM Insurance Team, United Concordia Dental and San Antonio, Texas-centered Visionworks, which was divested in 2016 for $one.6 billion.

The AHIP Board is also welcoming two new users, Point32Health President and CEO Cain Hayes, and CareOregon President and CEO Eric Hunter.

THE Greater Development

Highmark Wellbeing has declared the start of Lumevity in July, a wholly owned subsidiary that offers consulting solutions to other enterprises to assist them realize substantial-scale transformation. Lumevity is a combination of digital remedies, these as the automation of repetitive tasks and human source engagement approaches that goal to interact personnel to a community state of mind about transformation and the adoption of organizational effectiveness.

Offering opening remarks throughout the AHIP 2021 Countrywide Convention in September, AHIP President and CEO Matt Eyles termed for strengthening and guarding Medicare Edge as effectively as Medicaid Managed Care, calling the systems “efficient, successful and well-liked.”

ON THE Record

“Us citizens are distinct: They are hunting for collaboration throughout wellness care for greater ordeals, greater results, and reduced expenditures,” reported Holmberg. “AHIP is dedicated to remedies that raise price, strengthen equity, and final result in greater in general wellness. I am hunting ahead to partaking as Board Chair as we seem ahead to 2022.” 

“When sufferers have a lot more command above their protection and care decisions, they are greater capable to get what they will need, when they will need it, at a selling price they can find the money for,” reported Matt Eyles, AHIP President and CEO. “We greatly take pleasure in Bruce’s leadership via the continuing COVID-19 pandemic as we continued to provide on our eyesight to guide higher wellness for Us citizens. We are pretty enthusiastic to have David as following year’s Chair as we carry on to advocate for aggressive, non-public-market remedies to strengthen wellness care for everybody that wellness insurance vendors serve.”
 

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