The National Association of Benefits and Insurance Professionals has picked Jessica Brooks to succeed Janet Trautwein as its next CEO.
Brooks has been running a staffing firm she started in Pittsburgh for the past two years.
Before that, she spent nine years serving as the CEO of the Pittsburgh Business Group on Health. At PBGH, she helped Pittsburgh's employers fight for access to data they could use to lower the cost of care.
She also started an advocacy program for patients who need help with working with care providers.
NABIP — previously known as the National Association of Health Underwriters — announced Brooks' hiring earlier this week in New Orleans, at the NABIP annual convention.
What It Means
With Brooks as CEO, NABIP could play a bigger role in promoting health care cost transparency and efforts to make health care delivery more fair.
NABIP
NABIP was founded in 1930. It now has a staff of 30 in Washington and about 100,000 members.
