What Happened?
Virginia Beach, VA-based Amerigroup Corporation hired Russell Esposito as Senior Vice President of Technology
About the Company
Amerigroup, a wholly owned subsidiary of WellPoint, Inc., is an American managed care company serving approximately 2.7 million members in 12 states nationwide including Kansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York State, Tennessee, Texas and Washington. Together with WellPoint's affiliated health plans, Amerigroup serves approximately 4.5 million beneficiaries of state-sponsored health plans in 19 states targeting people eligible for Medicaid, the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), FamilyCare and other government plans.
About the Person
Russell R. Esposito joined Amerigroup Corporation as SVP for ITS in February of 2008. Mr. Esposito’s prior position was with Vytra Health Plans, which he joined in 1996 as CIO. In 2002, Vytra was acquired by HIP of Greater New York (now Emblem Health), and Mr. Esposito assumed additional enterprise responsibilities for Business Intelligence, Corporate Reporting, Data Warehousing and E-Commerce. Prior to joining Vytra, Mr. Esposito was CIO/Associate Executive Director at University Hospital at Stony Brook, and was responsible for information systems, medical records, biomedical engineering informatics, and telecommunications. Mr. Esposito has lectured at SUNY Stony Brook’s W. Averell Harriman School of Management and Policy, and its School of Health Management and Technology. He was also a Visiting Professor at Touro College’s Health Science Center, and is a frequent lecturer at national symposiums.
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