Who to Watch in 2015

A handful of people will have outsize influence on the business of healthcare in the coming year.

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Dr. Prem Reddy: The CEO of Ontario Calif.-based Prime Healthcare Services is leading the company's rapid ascent from a regional hospital operator to a national player preparing for an initial public offering. This year, California regulators will decide whether to approve Prime's deal for six-hospital Daughters of Charity Health System in spite of fierce opposition from labor unions and other critics of its business practices.
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Dr. Richard Gilfillan: A little more than a year into his tenure as Trinity Health's CEO, Gilfillan is working to transform the giant hospital system into one with population health as its defining mission and a Medicare accountable care organization in every Trinity market.

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David Holmberg (left) and Jeffrey Romoff: The CEOs of Pittsburgh's dominant healthcare forces (Holmberg at Highmark and Romoff at UPMC) remain locked in a bitter and unusually public battle for market share in their respective health plans and provider networks.
Michael Rowan: The Catholic Health Initiatives COO must find a way to stanch operating losses while pulling off its strategy to
Dr. J. Mario Molina: Molina is banking the success of his growing insurance company, Molina Healthcare, on Medicaid managed care and individual plans sold on the insurance exchanges created under the Affordable Care Act. So far, so good.

Here are 10 of them Modern Healthcare will be watching.