Aetna Better Health, a Texas Medicaid and children’s health care provider, named Anne Rote as chief executive officer, effective immediately.
Rote, 46, most recently was general manager for Medicare sales for Aetna’s southwest region.
In 1999 Rote ran Medicaid services for Aetna in Dallas, before leaving to become vice president of Medicaid services for Evercare. She returned to Aetna in 2007, as southwest region GM.
Rote earned degrees in economics, political science and policy studies from Rice University in  and a master’s degree in business administration from Southern Methodist University.
