Humana Taps Provider-Savvy Exec to Be Its Next CEO

October 13

Humana Inc. on Oct. 11 revealed that Bruce Broussard, who has been its CEO since 2013, will step down next year and be replaced by Jim Rechtin, the current CEO of private equity-owned physician staffing company Envision Healthcare Corp.

On the surface, choosing Rechtin to succeed Broussard could raise some eyebrows, since Envision just announced a deal that will allow the firm to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy. And in recent years, major staffing firms like Envision have been at odds with insurers — in fact, Envision in May was awarded $91 million by an arbitration panel in a dispute with UnitedHealthcare over alleged underpayment for medical care.

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Leslie has been working in journalism since 2009 and reporting on the health care industry since 2014. She has covered the many ups and downs of the Affordable Care Act exchanges, the failed health insurer mega-mergers, and hundreds of other storylines spanning subjects such as Medicaid managed care, Medicare Advantage, employer-sponsored insurance, and prescription drug coverage. As the managing editor of Health Plan Weekly and Radar on Drug Benefits, she writes and edits for both publications while overseeing a small team of reporters who also focus on the managed care sector. Before joining AIS Health, she was a senior editor for the e-newsletter Fierce Health Payer, and she started her career as a copy editor at multiple local newspapers. She graduated with a dual degree in journalism and political science from Penn State University.