Anthem parent reorganizes into two units.WellPoint Inc., parent corporation of Anthem anthem [ultimately from antiphon], short nonliturgical choral composition used in Protestant services, usually accompanied and having an English text. The term is used in a broader sense for "national anthems" and for the Latin motets still used occasionally in Blue Cross and Blue Shield Blue Shield A US not-for-profit health care insurer that is a reimbursement intermediary for physicians. Cf Blue Cross. in New Hampshire New Hampshire, one of the New England states of the NE United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts (S), Vermont, with the Connecticut R. forming the boundary (W), the Canadian province of Quebec (NW), and Maine and a short strip of the Atlantic Ocean (E). , has begun restructuring restructuring - The transformation from one representation form to another at the same relative abstraction level, while preserving the subject system's external behaviour (functionality and semantics). the company into two major units--commercial business and consumer business. Ken Goulet has been named president and chief executive of the new commercial business unit, which will oversee local group customers, national accounts and specialty products. He was previously the company's president of national accounts. Joan Herman has been named president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of the consumer business unit, which will handle senior and state-sponsored customer business and individual accounts for the under-65 segment. She was most recently president and CEO of the company's specialty, senior and state sponsored business. The company also announced it would create a new comprehensive health solutions business unit that will focus on health-care quality and the cost-of-care management. Previously, these functions were grouped under several different units. The changes are not expected to have much direct impact to consumers in the Granite State, James Kappel, corporate spokesperson for WellPoint, told New Hampshire Business Review New Hampshire Business Review is a bi-monthly publication, based in Manchester, covering business-related issues in New Hampshire. It is published on newsprint by Pennsylvania-based Independent Publications, which also owns the Telegraph of Nashua . "The 14 state presidents and presidents of the Blue plans will continue to assure a unique and local attention to their markets," he said. Kappel said the changes will allow for a more simplified and customer-focused structure as well as create further opportunities for selling between the medical and specialty products. WellPoint has 34 million members nationwide including 500,000 Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield members in New Hampshire. CINDY KIBBE/NEW HAMPSHIRE BUSINESS REVIEW |
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