Gail Boudreaux

Stuart Isett for Fortune
  • Title
    President and CEO
  • Affiliation
    Anthem
  • Age
    60
  • 2020 Rank
    5
With elective procedures frozen for much of 2020, Anthem benefited from paying out fewer claims: In Q2, its profits doubled year over year to $2.3 billion. That extra cash helped as the company provided cost-sharing waivers for COVID care through 2020. Anthem also waived out-of-pocket costs for telehealth early in the year, though it’s now facing backlash as it begins to reinstate some of those charges.

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