Doug Watson is now senior vice president and chief financial officer at UnityPoint Health. He was formerly CFO for Dignity Health.Arizona Comings & Goings
Chuck Sowers was promoted to staff vice president, Healthcare Cost Advancement at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona. He was formerly the vice president & general manager Government Business....Arizona Comings & Goings
Jeff Krause is now vice president of network operations for Apricus Health. He was formerly the director of contracting at OptumCare.Arizona Comings & Goings
Melissa Hulke is now senior director, chief strategy officer, North Central Territory at Aetna. She was formerly director of enterprise market strategy for CVS Health....Arizona Comings & Goings
Shayna Diamond is now the senior manager, cancer control strategic partnerships at the American Cancer Society. She was formerly the director of community affairs for the Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association (AzHHA)....Arizona Comings & Goings
Stephanie Carey is now clinical performance consultant at Banner Health. She was formerly manager, Health Plan Reimbursement at Tenet Health....Arizona Comings & Goings
Matthew Isiogu is now SVP of innovation at Health Current. Previously he was the assistant director of the Division of Health Care Management at AHCCCS.Arizona Comings & Goings
Tiffanie Oenning is now the director of payor contracts for HonorHealth. She was previously director of managed care at Phoenix
Children’s Hospital....Arizona Comings & Goings
Cynthia J. Leach is the vice president of Long Term Care at Mercy Care since December 2020. She brings over 35 years’ experience in health care
administration, financial management, executive leadership and program
development to this role.
Her responsibilities are to develop, implement, oversee and evaluate the
Mercy Care Arizona...Arizona Comings & Goings
Jaimee Jones is now director of managed care contracting at Behavioral Health Group - BHG. Previously she held the same role at McKesson....Arizona Comings & Goings
Matthew Isiogu is now senior vice president of innovation at Health Current. Previously he was the assistant director of the Division of Health Care Management at AHCCCS....Arizona Comings & Goings
Lori Pearlmutter was promoted to ACO manager for North Central Arizona ACO (NCAACO); she also serves as the ACO’s population health director.
Jonathan Mazon is now transformation specialist at NCAACO; he was formerly a quality management and compliance consultant with Life Transformation Recovery in Prescott Valley.Arizona Comings & Goings
Jennifer Mohler was promoted to director of revenue cycle at Scottsdale Medical Imaging; she was previously director of revenue cycle....Arizona Comings & Goings
Jenny Marchiniak is now the chief human resources officer for Valleywise Health.
Marchiniak joins Valleywise Health from Health Partners/Group Health Plan in Minnesota.Arizona Comings & Goings
Matthew Isiogu joins Health Current as senior vice president of Innovation; he was formerly the assistant director, division of health care management for AHCCCS....Arizona Comings & Goings
Banner Health announced the retirement of its chief operating officer Becky Kuhn. Kuhn will stay on with the organization until October 2021 while a search for her replacement is conducted.
In the nearly 20 years that Kuhn has been with Banner, she has held several key leadership roles including her current role as system COO...Arizona Comings & Goings
Ethel Hoffman recently joined the healthcare division of Warbird Consulting Partners, which provides customized strategic, financial and operational solutions and specializes in turnarounds of distressed organizations. Hoffman was the former vice president of managed care for Dignity Health....Arizona Comings & Goings
Rob Cetti, former senior vice president of strategic initiatives and provider contracting at Cigna AZ, is now President of CareAllies, a Cigna company that collaborates with independent physicians to accelerate their transition to value-based careArizona Comings & Goings
Maria Molina, former director of education and program development for Arizona Health Care Association, is now with Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science as the new diversity program director. Her role with AHCA has been filled internally by Krysten Dobson.