AHIP CEO Matthew Eyles Shifting On

Matthew D. Eyles, president and CEO of AHIP, the well being insurers’ commerce and lobbying group, is leaving the job on Oct. 2, 2023.

AHIP introduced yesterday that the AHIP Board of Administrators had accepted Eyles’ resignation, which was characterised as a private resolution, and would start a nationwide seek for a substitute.

In a LinkedIn post this afternoon, Eyles mentioned that “main AHIP has been the skilled honor of a lifetime, and I’ve valued and savored each second.” Eyles additionally praised AHIP, saying “it should proceed to be one of many nation’s prime commerce associations, and I’ve nice religion and luxury understanding your efforts will proceed guiding larger well being.”

Eyles turned president and CEO on June 1, 2018, and he held different positions on the group beginning in 2015.

However the COVID-19 pandemic, his 5 years main AHIP have been comparatively quiet and freed from controversy, in distinction to the three-year tenure of his predecessor, Marilyn Tavennerwhen three main insurers — Humana, Aetna, and UnitedHealth Group — left the AHIP group and seeded some doubts the group’s future.

Among the many first objects talked about within the listing of Eyles’ accomplishments within the AHIP announcement of his departure was the expansion of Medicare Benefit. In accordance with the Kaiser Household Basis, the proportion of Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in Medicare Benefit plans grew from 37% in 2018 to 50% this 12 months.

In a LinkedIn submit 4 months in the past, Eyles mentioned the expansion in Medicare Benefit is “actually trigger to have fun. Medicare Benefit’s recognition and success is a major instance of the federal government and free market working collectively to ship decrease prices, extra decisions, and higher outcomes for now so many individuals.”

When Facilities for Medicare and Medicaid Providers (CMS) issued guidelines for danger adjustment in January, Eyles was quoted in an AHIP press release as saying the rule was “illegal and fatally flawed, and it ought to have been withdrawn as an alternative of finalized.” However he praised the final rate notice that got here out in March.

The opposite accomplishments listed in yesterday’s press launch embrace eliminating the medical insurance tax, laws curbing shock medical payments and lengthening the Reasonably priced Care Act subsidies by 2025.