Anthem, Inc. Names Dr. Shantanu Agrawal Chief Health Officer
December 16 2020 - 5:00PM
Business Wire
Anthem, Inc. (NYSE: ANTM) announced today Dr. Shantanu Agrawal
has been named Chief Health Officer, effective January 25, 2020.
Dr. Agrawal will oversee Anthem’s enterprise health strategy, to
include medical policy and clinical quality, as well as the
company’s industry-leading work to address the social drivers of
health. He will also lead Anthem’s community health strategy and
the Anthem Foundation. He will report directly to Gail K.
Boudreaux, President and Chief Executive Officer, Anthem.
“Dr. Agrawal’s extensive experience in both the public and
private sectors will further accelerate Anthem’s efforts around
‘whole person care’ in order to improve outcomes and reduce costs
for all those we serve,” said Gail K. Boudreaux. “He is a
transformative thought leader, and I am excited to welcome him to
Anthem.”
Dr. Agrawal most recently served as President and Chief
Executive Officer of the National Quality Forum (NQF), a non-profit
organization dedicated to working with members of the healthcare
community to drive measurable health improvements. He is also the
former Deputy Administrator for the Centers for Medicare &
Medicaid Services (CMS), where he led an effort to improve the
physician experience with Medicare and was also was one of the main
architects of CMS’s strategy to address the national opioid
epidemic. Dr. Agrawal also served as Director of the Center for
Program Integrity (CPI), where he was instrumental in launching new
initiatives in data transparency and analytics, utilization
management and payment models.
Dr. Agrawal serves on the board of the Grameen Foundation and
the Presidential Advisory Council of Brown University’s School of
Public Health. He is also Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Leonard
Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of
Pennsylvania and Associate Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine
at the George Washington University School of Medicine.
Dr. Agrawal completed his undergraduate education at Brown
University, medical education at Weill Medical College of Cornell
University, and clinical training in Emergency Medicine at the
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He earned his master’s
degree in Social and Political Sciences from Cambridge
University.
About Anthem, Inc.
Anthem is a leading health benefits company dedicated to
improving lives and communities, and making healthcare simpler.
Through its affiliated companies, Anthem serves more than 107
million people, including approximately 43 million within its
family of health plans. We aim to be the most innovative, valuable
and inclusive partner. For more information, please visit
www.antheminc.com or follow @AnthemInc on Twitter.
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