Business
Former WellPoint CEO takes new job
NEWS IN BRIEF — Posted Oct. 22, 2007
Leonard Schaeffer, founding CEO of the company that became WellPoint, this month was announced as the chair of Surgical Care Affiliates, which owns and operates 139 surgical care centers and three surgical hospitals in 35 states.
Schaeffer is a senior adviser to TPG Capital, a private-equity firm that formed Surgical Care Affiliates to buy the surgery center operations of HealthSouth. Schaeffer founded WellPoint Health Services, which in 2004 merged with Anthem to become Indianapolis-based WellPoint. He left the company soon after.
Note: This item originally appeared at http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2007/10/22/bibf1022.htm.