100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare - 2010 (text list)

Modern Healthcare's 100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare for 2010:

1. Barack Obama

President of the United States, Washington2. Kathleen Sebelius Secretary,HHS,Washington

3. Nancy Pelosi Speaker of the House (D-Calif.),U.S. House of Representatives,Washington

4. Max Baucus U.S. senator (D-Mont.);chairman, Senate Finance Committee,U.S. Senate, Washington

5. Sister Carol Keehan President and CEO, Catholic Health Association,Washington

6. Peter Orszag

Former director,White House Office of Management and Budget,Washington 7. Carolyn ClancyDirector,Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality,Rockville, Md. 8. Bill Gates Chairman, Microsoft Corp.; co-founder, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,Seattle 9. Henry Waxman U.S. representative (D-Calif.);chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee,U.S. House of Representatives,Washington

10. Paul Ginsburg President,Center for Studying Health System Change,Washington 11. Chuck Grassley U.S. senator (R-Iowa);ranking member, Senate Finance Committee,U.S. Senate,Washington 12. Harry Reid Senate majority leader, (D-Nev.),U.S. Senate,Washington 13. Donald Berwick CMS administrator;Washington;former president and CEO,Institute for Healthcare Improvement,Cambridge, Mass. 14. David Blumenthal National coordinator for health information technology,HHS,Washington

15. Margaret Hamburg Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration,Silver Spring, Md. 16. Arnold Schwarzenegger Outgoing governor, state of California,Sacramento 17. Newt GingrichFounder,Center for Health Transformation,Washington 18. Mary Kay Henry President,Service Employees International Union,Washington 19. Sister Mary Jean Ryan Chairwoman and CEO,SSM Health Care,St. Louis

20. Nancy-Ann DeParle Director,White House Office

of Health Reform,

Washington 21. Karen Ignagni President and CEO,America's Health Insurance Plans,Washington 22. Bruce YarwoodPresident and CEO, American Health Care Association, Washington 23. Joel AllisonPresident and CEO, Baylor Health Care System,Dallas 24. Lloyd Dean President and CEO,Catholic Healthcare West,San Francisco 25. Trevor Fetter President and CEO,Tenet Healthcare Corp.,Dallas 26. Richard Feinstein Director, Bureau of Competition,Federal Trade Commission,Washington 27. Mary Wakefield Administrator, Health Resources and Services Administration, Rockville, Md. 28. Ronald Williams Chairman and CEO,Aetna,Hartford, Conn. 29. Beverly Malone CEO,National League for Nursing,New York 30. David White Chairman and CEO,Iasis Healthcare,Franklin, Tenn. 31. Regina Benjamin U.S. surgeon general,Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service,Rockville, Md. 32. Glenn Hackbarth Chairman,Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, Washington 33. Pamela Thompson CEO, American Organization of Nurse Executives,Washington

34. Drew Altman President and CEO,Kaiser Family Foundation,Menlo Park, Calif. 35. Glenn Steele Jr. President and CEO,Geisinger Health System,Danville, Pa. 36. Dan Wolterman President and CEO,Memorial Hermann Healthcare System,Houston 37. Rebecca PattonPresident,American Nurses Association,Silver Spring, Md. 38. Scott Armstrong President and CEO,Group Health Cooperative,Seattle 39. Gary Newsome President and CEO,Health Management Associates,Naples, Fla. 40. Wayne SmithChairman, president and CEO,Community Health Systems,Franklin, Tenn. 41. William Carpenter President and CEO,LifePoint Hospitals,Brentwood, Tenn. 42. Chip Kahn President and CEO,Federation of American Hospitals,Washington

43. Stuart Altman Sol C. Chaikin professor of national health policy,Brandeis University,Waltham, Mass. 44. Richard Umbdenstock President and CEO,American Hospital Association,Chicago 45. Eric ShinsekiSecretary,Veterans Affairs Department,Washington 46. Kathy Warye CEO,Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology,Washington 47. David Bates Chief, general internal medicine;medical director of clinical and quality analysis,Brigham and Women's Hospital,Boston

48. Barbara Crane President,National Federation of Nurses,Seattle 49. Richard BrackenChairman and CEO,HCA,Nashville 50. Harvey Fineberg President,Institute of Medicine,Washington 51. Michael Dowling CEO,North Shore-Long Island,Jewish Health System, Great Neck, N.Y. 52. Angela Braly Chairman, president and CEO,WellPoint,Indianapolis 53. Gail Boudreaux President, UnitedHealthcare;executive vice president, UnitedHealth Group,Minnetonka, Minn. 54. Richard Clarke President and CEO,Healthcare Financial Management Association,Westchester, Ill. 55. Christine Varney Assistant attorney general, antitrust division,U.S. Justice Department,Washington 56. Georges Benjamin Executive director,American Public Health Association, Washington 57. Pete Stark U.S. representative (D-Calif.);chairman, House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee, U.S. House of Representatives,Washington 58. Kevin Lofton President and CEO,Catholic Health Initiatives,Denver

59. Karen Davis President, Commonwealth Fund,New York 60. Michael Connelly President and CEO,Catholic Healthcare Partners,Cincinnati 61. Mark Chassin President,Joint Commission,Oakbrook Terrace, Ill. 62. Christine Cassel President and CEO,American Board of Internal Medicine and the ABIM Foundation,Philadelphia

63. Uwe Reinhardt James Madison professor of political economy,Princeton (N.J.) University 64. Chris Van Gorder President and CEO, Scripps Health, San Diego;chairman, American College of Healthcare Executives 65. Michael McCallister President and CEO,Humana,Louisville, Ky. 66. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey President and CEO,Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, N.J. 67. Rose Ann DeMoro Executive director,National Nurses United;national vice president, AFL-CIO,Washington 68. Linda Aiken Director, Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research,University of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia

69. John Goodman President and CEO,National Center for Policy Analysis, Dallas 70. George Halvorson Chairman and CEO, Kaiser Permanente,Oakland, Calif. 71. Richard Foster Chief actuary,CMS,Washington 72. Robert Wachter Chief, division of hospital medicine,University of California at San Francisco

73. Robert Moffit Senior fellow, Heritage Foundation,Washington 74. Anthony Tersigni President and CEO,Ascension Health,St. Louis 75. Gary Gottlieb President and CEO,Partners HealthCare System,Boston 76. Janet Corrigan President and CEO,National Quality Forum,Washington 77. Val Halamandaris President, National Association for Home Care & Hospice,Washington,

78. Delos “Toby” Cosgrove President and CEO,Cleveland Clinic 79. Charles Martin Chairman and CEO,Vanguard Health Systems,Nashville 80. Kent Thiry Chairman and CEO,DaVita,Denver 81. Paul Diaz President and CEO,Kindred Healthcare,Louisville, Ky. 82. Francis Collins Director,National Institutes of Health,Bethesda, Md. 83. Angela Gardner President, American College of Emergency Physicians,Irving, Texas

84. Thomas Dolan President and CEO,American College of Healthcare Executives,Chicago 85. William Jessee President and CEO,Medical Group Management Association, Englewood, Colo. 86. Michael Maves Executive vice president and CEO,American Medical Association,Chicago 87. Stephen Lieber President and CEO,Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society,Chicago

88. Scott Serota President and CEO,Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, Chicago 89. Joseph Swedish President and CEO,Trinity Health,Novi, Mich. 90. James Guest President and CEO,Consumers Union,Yonkers, N.Y. 91. Thomas Frieden Director,Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,Atlanta 92. Barry Straube Director, office of clinical standards and quality;chief medical officer,CMS,Washington

93. Alan Miller Chairman and CEO,Universal Health Services,King of Prussia, Pa. 94. Jay Grinney President and CEO,HealthSouth Corp.,Birmingham, Ala. 95. Yvette Roubideaux Director, Indian Health Service,Rockville, Md. 96. Leah Binder CEO,Leapfrog Group,Washington 97. Geraldine “Polly” Bednash CEO and executive director,American Association of Colleges of Nursing,Washington 98. William Roper CEO,UNC Health Care System;dean, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine 99. Emad Rizk President,McKesson Health Solutions,Boston 100. Sanjay Gupta Medical/healthcare correspondent,CNN,Atlanta