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Hires

The welcomed a new president and named a new one for next year. This month, Dr. Bruce Scott — an ear, nose, and throat doctor from Kentucky — was sworn in as the AMA’s new president, and in June 2025, Dr. Bobby Mukkamala — an ear, nose, and throat doctor from Michigan — will take over the president role.

announced its first round of C-suite hires since it was founded in 2022. The startup welcomed James Chaukos as chief operating officer and John Frager as chief growth officer.

appointed Christopher Gleason as its new CEO. Over his career, he’s held a variety of leadership and management roles at healthcare companies, including and .

named Vincent Tammaro as CFO. Tammaro will join the health system in October, coming from the , where he currently serves as CFO. Before that, he was CFO at .

welcomed Dr. Ed Glynn as chief clinical officer. He comes to the company from ’s physician services branch, where he served as chief medical information officer.

hired Chuck Divita as its new CEO. He comes to the company from , where he spent more than 10 years, serving most recently as executive vice president of commercial markets.

appointed Dr. Gregory Johnson as its chief medical officer. He is joining the health system from Sound Physicians, where he spent 15 years, serving most recently as chief health equity and diversity officer and CEO of hospital medicine.

Promotions

promoted Erich Twachtman to vice president and head of commercial regions. He has been working at Aetna for more than 20 years, serving most recently as vice president of regional large segments.

promoted Jamie Kates to the role of chief accounting officer. She first joined Cigna in 2009. Kates’ most recent role at the company was vice president of accounting, in which she managed ‘s functions for accounting, compliance and consolidation.

Layoffs

laid off in Arizona. These job cuts took place in the insurance company’s Evernorth Care Group, according to a state filing.

is laying off in California.

is laying off in North Carolina and South Carolina.

is laying off hundreds of workers. The organization — which is currently in the middle of a merger with — told staff that it was eliminating .

announced plans to eliminate in Pennsylvania. The company is still reeling from what is now a three-year-old medical device recall which involved about five and a half million recalled CPAPs and other devices.

is eliminating . The health system is laying off C-suite executives and vice presidents as part of the job cuts, reducing its leadership structure by more than 10%.