Indiana-Based Wellpoint’s Choice Of CEO A Sign Payers May Soon Provide Care

Circle Connections: New Talent The surprise selection of hospital executive Joseph Swedish, who ran one of the nation's largest hospital systems, to be chief executive at WellPoint Inc. is the latest sign health insurance companies want to form closer ties with providers of medical care. Swedish, 61, is an unknown to Wall Street, having spent much of his career running nonprofit hospital systems like his most recent job as CEO running Trinity Health Corp., a large Catholic-owned operator of nearly 50 hospitals in 10 states. This was reported by Forbes on February 14, 2013. Contact information: Jill Becher . . .