America's Health Insurance Plans' Leader Karen Ignagni To Be EmblemHealth CEO

News reports describe EmblemHealth as a financially challenged, not-for-profit health plan based in New York. The insurer has an estimated 3.2 million members and offers Medicare and Medicaid managed care plans as well as coverage on New York’s health-plan marketplace.

Politico: Top Health Lobbyist Calls It Quits At Key Moment For Obamacare

Karen Ignagni was the woman who could have killed Obamacare. Instead, the nation’s top health insurance lobbyist helped President Barack Obama to pass his sweeping health reform. And she became emblematic of the compromises and controversies that still define the Affordable Care Act today. (Palmer, Haberkorn and Demko, 5/21)

The Wall Street Journal: Karen Ignagni To Be EmblemHealth CEO

Karen Ignagni, the longtime leader of the health-insurance lobbying group America’s Health Insurance Plans, will leave to become chief executive officer of EmblemHealth, a not-for-profit health plan based in New York. (Armour, 5/21)

Modern Healthcare: AHIP CEO Karen Ignagni Leaving For Emblem Health

Dan Durham, AHIP's executive vice president, will serve as the lobbying group's interim CEO. Speculation has swirled that a former member of Congress could take Ignagni's place. (Herman, 5/21)

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