Howard Koh leaving HHS, and other news makers

Dr. Howard Koh is stepping down as assistant secretary for health at HHS after five years in the post. Koh's primary focus was disease prevention, including oversight of the Office of the Surgeon General.

Koh is returning to the faculty at the Harvard School of Public Health, where he taught before joining the Obama administration. He will depart at the end of July, according to HHS. Dr. Wanda Jones, who serves as principle deputy assistant secretary for health, will take over his duties until a replacement is named.

Travis Andersen has been named president and CEO of Columbia St. Mary's Health System in Milwaukee, effective Aug. 4. He replaces Mark Taylor, who retired at the end of June. Columbia St. Mary's is part of Ascension Health.

Most recently, Andersen, 43, was president of St. Elizabeth Hospital in Appleton, Wis., and also oversaw Calumet Medical Center, a critical-access hospital in Chilton, Wis. Both hospitals are part of Ministry Health Care. Previously, Andersen served as director of business development with Affinity Health System, which became part of Ministry Health in 2012.

KentuckyOne Health has named Randy Combs CFO, effective this month.

Combs, 57, joins KentuckyOne, a Louisville, Ky.-based subsidiary of Catholic Health Initiatives, from Chesterfield, Mo.-based Mercy Health. He has more than 35 years of healthcare experience, having served 22 of those years as a CFO at hospitals or health systems. He replaces Melvin Alexander, who left the organization last year.

Corizon Health, a for-profit provider of healthcare services at prisons, has named Scott Bowers president and COO, effective Aug. 4.

Most recently, Bowers, 43, was president and CEO of UnitedHealthcare Community Plan of Tennessee, a Medicaid managed-care plan within UnitedHealth Group. He also served as president and CEO of UnitedHealthcare's mid-Atlantic subsidiary.

Corizon, based in Brentwood, Tenn., provides healthcare to inmates in more than 550 prisons across the country. In fiscal 2013, the company had about $1.2 billion in revenue, according to Moody's Investors Service.

Technology company T-System, Dallas, has named Roger Davis president and CEO.

Davis, 58, previously was a managing director at Accenture, where he worked

on business development for physician practices, hospitals and health systems. He also held executive roles at GE Healthcare, Dell and 20/20 Healthcare Partners.

T-System partners with hospitals specifically for emergency department products, such as documentation technology, clinical decision support and revenue cycle. Davis replaces interim CEO John Trzeciak, an operating partner for T-System's private-equity sponsor, Francisco Partners, who filled in after Sunny Sanyal left the company in February.