30-Year Healthcare-Finance Vet Steers TPA Giant
Health Plans, Inc. (HPI)–national TPA trailblazer–as tapped Glenn MacFarlane as Interim President & CEO, a turning-point hire blending his 30+ years healthcare/managed care/behavioral/finance mastery.
Employers crave cost clarity/outcomes/wellbeing amid digital shifts. Glenn‘s charge: Growth/culture boost/HPI’s self-funded edge. Not a stopgap–transformation architect.
Finance-Healthcare Hybrid Powerhouse
Glenn fuses CFO sharpness with billion-scale health CEO runs–strat fin/ops/mission drive.
Lately:
- Interim CFO – Point32Health: Top-20 nonprofit plans (Harvard Pilgrim/Tufts/HPI), fin ops lead.
- President/CEO – Carelon Behavioral Health (Elevance): 6,000+ staff/40M+ members/all 50 states, integrated behavioral-physical care.
- President/CEO – Aetna Better Health NJ: NJ’s fastest Medicaid MCO growth, statewide/value-based flips.
- President/CEO – Affinity Health Plan: $1.5B plan/300K members/NY profitability rescue.
- Sr Fin Leads – TIAA-CREF/Horizon Mercy: Enterprise fin/procure/product/invest gov.
Public/private/profit/nonprofit span–exec unicorn.
HPI Interim CEO Playbook
Glenn helms 40+ year self-funded pioneer:
- Flexible employer models
- Ref-based pricing (RBP)
- High-perf networks
- Analytics
- Custom plans
Mission:
- Enterprise growth/fin perf
- Inclusive/mission culture
- Client journeys/segments
- Network partnerships
- Self-funded innovations
Employer transparency/outcomes hub.
Carelon Behavioral Scale Beast
Nation’s top behavioral platform:
- Mental/SUD
- Autism/ABA
- Opioid
- Crisis/suicide prev
- Integrated care
Delivered: Gains/restruct/reg-provider ties/quality for millions.
Scale/complex/impact rarity.
Why HPI’s Masterstroke
Healthcare quake:
- Value-based
- Employer plans
- Behavioral boom
- Cost crunches
- Data clin calls
Needs fin/clinical/system brains. Glenn packs ’em. Signals: Nat’l scale/innovate/self-funded/gov discip/member care.
CXO Gateway’s Take
Here at CXO Gateway, Glenn MacFarlane‘s hybrid CEO gold–board balances/providers/policy/members. Auditor to Fortune health CEO arc? Leadership/strat/transform masterclass. For HPI, no temp–stewardship at innovation crux. Industry-wise, he’s reshaping fin/delivery/experience at nat’l scale.