100 Most Influential People in Healthcare (text list)

This year's ranking of the 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare includes 27 newcomers as well as 10 honorees who have been on every list since it started in 2002.

1. Paul Ryan

U.S. representative (R-Wis.), chairman of the House Budget Committee, Washington

2. Peter Shumlin

Governor, state of Vermont, Montpelior

3. Barack Obama

President of the United States, Washington

4. Donald Berwick

Administrator, CMS, Washington

5. Kathleen Sebelius

Secretary, HHS, Washington

6. Newt Gingrich

Founder, Center for Health Transformation, Washington; former House speaker

7. John Wennberg

Director of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, professor of evaluative clinical sciences

8. William Weldon

Chairman and CEO, Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, N.J.

9. Farzad Mostashari

National coordinator for healthcare information technology, Washington

10. Therese "Terri" Vaughan

CEO, National Association of Insurance Commissioners Kansas City, Mo.

11. Carolyn Clancy

Director, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, Md.

12. Robert Wah

Vice president and chief medical officer, CSC, Falls Church, Va.; board chairman, American Medical Association

13. Kent Thiry

CEO, DaVita, Denver

14. Paul Diaz

President and CEO, Kindred Healthcare, Louisville, Ky.

15. Sister Carol Keehan

President and CEO, Catholic Health Association, St. Louis

16. Richard Umbdenstock

President and CEO, American Hospital Association, Chicago

17. Wayne Smith

Chairman, president and CEO, Community Health Systems, Franklin, Tenn.

18. Chris Van Gorder

President and CEO, Scripps Health, San Diego

19. Lloyd Dean

President and CEO, Catholic Healthcare West, San Francisco

20. Alan Miller

Chairman and CEO, Universal Health Services, King of Prussia, Pa.

21. John Boehner

Speaker of the House (R-Ohio), Washington

22. Stephen Hemsley

President and CEO, UnitedHealth Group, Minnetonka, Minn.

23. Karen Daley

President, American Nurses Association, Silver Spring, Md.

24. John Hammergren

Chairman and CEO, McKesson Corp., San Francisco

25. Trevor Fetter

President and CEO, Tenet Healthcare Corp., Dallas

26. Regina Benjamin

U.S. surgeon general, Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service, Rockville, Md.

27. Thomas Zenty

CEO, University Hospitals, Cleveland

28. Anthony Tersigni

President and CEO, Ascension Health, St. Louis

29. Michael Dowling

President and CEO, North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, Great Neck, N.Y.

30. Drew Altman

President and CEO, Kaiser Family Foundation, Menlo Park, Calif.

31. Rose Ann DeMoro

Executive director, National Nurses United, AFL-CIO, Washington

32. Chip Kahn

President and CEO, Federation of American Hospitals, Washington

33. Gary Kaplan

Chairman and CEO, Virginia Mason Hospital & Medical Center, Seattle

34. Richard Bracken

Chairman and CEO, HCA, Nashville

35. Patricia Hemingway Hall

President and CEO, Health Care Service Corp., Chicago

36. Richard Afable

President and CEO, Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian, Newport Beach, Calif.

37. Maureen Bisognano

President and CEO, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Cambridge, Mass.

38. Scott Armstrong

President and CEO, Group Health Cooperative, Seattle

39. Aneesh Chopra

U.S. chief technology officer, White House, Washington

40. Angela Braly

Chairwoman, president and CEO, WellPoint, Indianapolis

41. Stuart Altman

Sol C. Chaikin professor of national health policy, Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass.

42. Gail Wilensky

Senior fellow, Project HOPE, Washington; former administrator of HCFA, predecessor to the CMS

43. Janet Corrigan

President and CEO, National Quality Forum, Washington

44. Judith Faulkner

Founder and CEO, Epic Systems, Verona, Wis.

45. Kevin Lofton

President and CEO, Catholic Health Initiatives, Englewood, Colo.

46. Margaret "Peggy" O'Kane

President, National Committee for Quality Assurance, Washington

47. Chuck Grassley

U.S. senator (R-Iowa), Washington

48. Leah Binder

CEO, Leapfrog Group, Washington

49. Rick Scott

Governor of Florida, Tallahassee

50. Jay Grinney

President and CEO, HealthSouth Corp., Birmingham, Ala.

51. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

President and CEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, N.J.

52. Deborah Peel

Founder and chairwoman, Patient Privacy Rights Foundation, Austin, Texas

53. Joseph Swedish

President and CEO, Trinity Health, Novi, Mich.

54. Charles Sorenson

President and CEO, Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City

55. Eric Holder

U.S. attorney general, U.S. Justice Department, Washington

56. Delos "Toby" Cosgrove

President and CEO, Cleveland Clinic

57. Karen Ignagni

President and CEO, America's Health Insurance Plans, Washington

58. Karen Davis

President, Commonwealth Fund, New York

59. Francis Collins

Director, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.

60. George Halvorson

Chairman and CEO, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, Calif.

61. Richard Clarke

President and CEO, Healthcare Financial Management Association, Westchester, Ill.

62. Alan Aviles

President and CEO, New York City Health and Hospitals Corp.

63. Mark Chassin

President, Joint Commission, Oak Brook Terrace, Ill.

64. Georges Benjamin

Executive director, American Public Health Association, Washington

65. John Bardis

Chairman, President and CEO, MedAssets, Alpharetta, Ga.

66. Christine Cassel

President and CEO, American Board of Internal Medicine and the ABIM Foundation, Philadelphia

67. Michael McCallister

Chairman and CEO, Humana, Louisville, Ky.

68. Stephen Bonner

President and CEO, Cancer Treatment Centers of America, Schaumburg, Ill.

69. Eric Topol

Chief academic officer, Scripps Health; director Scripps Translational Science Institute, San Diego

70. Thomas Frieden

Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta

71. John Noseworthy

President and CEO, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.

72. Thomas Dolan

President and CEO, American College of Healthcare Executives, Chicago

73. Margaret Hamburg

Commissioner, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, Md.

74. Richard Feinstein

Director, Bureau of Competition, U.S. Federal Trade Commission, Washington

75. Nicholas Wolter

CEO, Billings (Mont.) Clinic

76. Paul Ginsburg

President, Center for Studying Health System Change, Washington

77. Gary Gottlieb

President and CEO, Partners HealthCare System, Boston

78. Jack Lewin

CEO, American College of Cardiology, Washington

79. Teri Fontenot

President and CEO, Woman's Hospital, Baton Rouge, La.

80. Helen Darling

President and CEO, National Business Group on Health, Washington

81. Glenn Steele Jr.

President and CEO, Geisinger Health System, Danville, Pa.

82. Alan Morgan

CEO, National Rural Health Association, Washington

83. Harvey Fineberg

President, Institute of Medicine, Washington

84. Eric Shinseki

Secretary, Veterans Affairs Department, Washington

85. Peter Fine

President and CEO, Banner Health, Phoenix

86. Bruce Siegel

CEO, National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems, Washington

87. Richard Foster

Chief actuary, CMS, Washington

88. Rulon Stacey

President and CEO, Poudre Valley Health System, Fort Collins, Colo.

89. Charles Martin

Chairman and CEO, Vanguard Health Systems, Nashville

90. Scott Serota

President and CEO, Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, Chicago

91. Stephen Lieber

President and CEO, Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, Chicago

92. Howard Koh

Assistant secretary for health, HHS, Washington

93. Steven Safyer

President and CEO, Montefiore Medical Center, New York

94. Daniel Levinson

Inspector general, HHS, Washington

95. Darrell Kirch

President and CEO, Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington

96. Ron Pollack

Founder and executive director, Families USA, Washington

97. Richard Gilfillan

Acting director, CMS' Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation, Washington

98. Kenneth Raske

President and CEO, Greater New York Hospital Association, New York

99. James Guest

President and CEO, Consumers Union, Yonkers, N.Y.

100. A. Barry Rand

CEO, AARP, Washington