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New Centene CEO London Will Bring Tech, Innovation Chops to Her Role

  • Mar 25

    Mar 25, 2022

    Centene Corp. on March 22 named Sarah London as its next CEO, effective immediately. London, who currently serves as the firm’s vice chairman, will fill the role held by Michael Neidorff for decades, though she has been part of a group of top executives who have handled day-to-day management of Centene since Neidorff took medical leave in late February.

    In her previous management role, London was responsible for a “portfolio of companies independent of Centene’s health plans, designing differentiated platform capabilities, and delivering industry-leading products and services to third-party customers,” per a March 22 press release. Before coming to Centene, she worked for UnitedHealth Group’s venture capital arm, Optum Ventures, and its data analytics division.

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    Leslie has been working in journalism since 2009 and reporting on the health care industry since 2014. She has covered the many ups and downs of the Affordable Care Act exchanges, the failed health insurer mega-mergers, and hundreds of other storylines spanning subjects such as Medicaid managed care, Medicare Advantage, employer-sponsored insurance, and prescription drug coverage. As the managing editor of Health Plan Weekly and Radar on Drug Benefits, she writes and edits for both publications while overseeing a small team of reporters who also focus on the managed care sector. Before joining AIS Health, she was a senior editor for the e-newsletter Fierce Health Payer, and she started her career as a copy editor at multiple local newspapers. She graduated with a dual degree in journalism and political science from Penn State University.

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