October 5, 2020 - Hartford Business Journal

Health Power 25: 25. Ellen Andrews

In the insider world of state healthcare policy, where obscure committees help direct new payment models or...

Health Power 25: 24. Charles Lee

At The Jackson Laboratory in Farmington, Charles Lee oversees the work of more than 300 scientists drawing...

Health Power 25: 23. Martin Looney, Sean Scanlon and Matt Lesser

Call these three Democratic lawmakers the core of Connecticut’s healthcare-reform caucus, though there’s technically no such thing.

Health Power 25: 22. Linda Grigerek

Nursing homes and assisted living facilities aren’t the only businesses that have benefited from Connecticut’s aging population.When...

Health Power 25: 21. Eric Galvin

Connecticut is chock full of insurers with a national or even global presence, but not many write...

Health Power 25: 20. Andrew Mais

The Connecticut Insurance Department was once considered a rubber stamp for the health insurance industry. Carriers would...

Health Power 25: 19. Kevin Lembo and Victoria Veltri

Connecticut is known for having activists keen on expanding access to and reducing the costs of health care. Many of them are found within state government, including Comptroller Kevin Lembo and Office of Health Strategy Executive Director Victoria Veltri.

Health Power 25: 18. Keith Stover and Susan Halpin

Connecticut can credibly claim to be the insurance capital of the world, or at least one of them, as the state is home to two of the nation’s largest for-profit health insurers, Aetna and Cigna.

Health Power 25: 17. Benito Alvarez

Independent physician groups have become somewhat of an endangered species in recent years with the consolidation in...

Health Power 25: 16. Lynn Ricci and Sonja LaBarbera

Connecticut’s short-term acute care hospitals, particularly the big ones, tend to get the most media attention, especially...

Health Power 25: 15. Mark Masselli

Mark Masselli has been a major innovator in the community health center space.He started Middletown-based Community Health...

Health Power 25: 14. Kurt Barwis

Another of the few independent hospitals remaining in Greater Hartford is Bristol Hospital, where Kurt Barwis has...

Health Power 25: 13. Vincent Capece Jr.

The number of standalone hospitals in Connecticut continues to dwindle, as growing health systems gobble them up...

12. James Shmerling

James Shmerling arrived at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center in late 2015, vowing to take calculated risks necessary to keep the state’s only free-standing pediatric hospital self-sufficient.

11. Matthew Barrett and Mag Morelli

Connecticut’s aging population has meant an increasingly prominent role for the nearly 350 nursing homes and assisted living facilities scattered around the state.

10. Andrew Agwunobi

UConn Health CEO Dr. Andrew Agwunobi is a pediatrician by training, but his patient for the past five years has been a $1.2-billion hospital and medical and dental school that consistently produces large budget deficits.

9. Karen Lynch

Following Aetna’s $69-billion merger with Rhode Island-based CVS Health in late 2018, Karen Lynch took over as president of the Hartford-based health insurer.

8. Health Power 25 # 8: Marna Borgstrom

Yes, this is a ranking of Greater Hartford healthcare power players, but Yale New Haven Health’s growing...

7. Health Power 25 #7: David Cordani

When state lawmakers were considering adopting a public health insurance plan for Connecticut residents and businesses last year, Cigna Corp. CEO David Cordani reportedly threatened to uproot his Bloomfield-based health insurer and relocate it elsewhere.

6. Health Power 25 #6: Albert Ko

Gov. Ned Lamont has leaned on many health experts in recent months to guide him through the...

5. Health Power 25 # 5: Deidre Gifford

Deidre Gifford began the coronavirus pandemic as head of the state Department of Social Services but was...

4. Reginald Eadie

It’s been a challenging year for all Connecticut hospitals as they deal with the COVID-19 pandemic and it’s been no different for Trinity Health Of New England, the parent company of three in-state hospitals, including flagship St. Francis Hospital.

3. Jennifer Jackson

With $13 billion in annual revenue and more than 52,000 full-time employees, hospitals are a mighty piece of Connecticut’s economy.

2. Jeffrey Flaks

Whether you’re a health insurer negotiating rates or a competing medical provider trying to maintain market position in a quickly consolidating healthcare industry, Jeffrey Flaks holds power.

1. Ned Lamont

Gov. Ned Lamont didn’t run for office on much of a healthcare platform, but coronavirus has certainly made him a healthcare governor.

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