Healthcare Finance News January 9, 2025
Lois Quam has served with major healthcare organizations, as well as the U.S. State Department.
Blue Shield of California is undergoing a corporate restructuring, and as part of that effort has tapped Lois Quam to serve as its new chief executive officer. Quam, who joined the company in 2024, becomes the first woman in the health plan’s 86-year history to serve as CEO.
Quam said in a statement that she wants California to be a “model for healthcare.”
“I am focused on the challenges facing our members in every corner of our state, who gather at their kitchen tables and wrestle with their healthcare decisions and whether they can afford them,” she said. “As the only statewide nonprofit health plan,...