To run its statewide health insurance exchange, which is currently in the works, Connecticut hired an executive who helped implement Massachusetts”™ landmark health reform law.
Kevin Counihan most recently has been president of Choice Administrators Exchange Solutions in Orange, Calif. From 2006 to 2011, he was chief marketing officer for the Massachusetts Health Insurance Connector Authority, which administers that state”™s health insurance exchange. In the early 1990s, he worked for Bloomfield-based CIGNA Corp.
Counihan beat out 75 candidates to become CEO of the Connecticut Health Insurance Exchange.