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about $190 million in revenue.
Ricci has played a key role in build-
ing HFSC's autism inpatient program,
which in early October cut the ribbon
on a $13-million facility expansion
built with the help of state funding.
She's also pushed back against state
legislative proposals over the past
decade seeking to levy property taxes
on nonprofit hospitals.
LaBarbera is overseeing an ongo-
ing $10-million renovation on her
Wallingford campus.
Some academics have questioned
the high cost of long-term care hospi-
tals. LaBarbera has collaborated with
her predecessor, George Kyriacou, to
counter that argument with research
showing that long-term care hospi-
tals provide important value.
Benito Alvarez
and Jim Faircloth
Independent physician
groups have become
somewhat of an endan-
gered species in recent
years with the consolida-
tion in the healthcare industry.
Dr. Benito Alvarez and Jim Fair-
cloth have led two large doctor groups
that have been aggressive poachers.
Alvarez last
year became CEO
of ProHealth
Physicians, the
largest non-hos-
pital-owned doc-
tor practice in the
state with more
than 400 primary
and specialty-
care providers.
UnitedHealth
Group's Op-
tumCare unit
acquired a part
of ProHealth in
2015, a sure sign
of the compa-
ny's strength.
Alvarez is an
obstetrician-gy-
necologist who
was formerly
president of Cleveland Clinic Akron
General's physician group in Ohio.
He attended Columbia University
Medical School and completed his
residencies at Cleveland's Mount
Sinai Medical Center.
Faircloth is also relatively new to
the job having been named the first
non-doctor CEO of Rocky Hill-based
Starling Physicians last December.
His selection as CEO signaled a
major shift for Starling, which had
been led by a physician serving on a
part-time basis for over 70 years.
Starling is the second-largest
non-hospital-owned doctor practice
in the state with about 27 special-
ties in more than 30 locations.
Over the last decade, Faircloth
served as CEO of Pinehurst Medical
Clinic (PMC) in Pinehurst, N.C.
Keith Stover
and Susan Halpin
Connecticut can credibly claim
to be the insurance capital of the
world, or at least one of them, as the
state is home to two of the nation's
largest for-profit health
insurers, Aetna and
Cigna.
Directing the Con-
necticut lobbying inter-
ests of Cigna, Aetna and a handful
of other major commercial health
carriers operating in the state is the
Connecticut Association of Health
Plans (CAHP),
managed by the
government
relations prac-
tice of Hart-
ford law firm
Robinson+Cole.
The insurance
lobbying effort
is led by prac-
tice chair Keith
Stover, and also
includes Susan
Halpin, who has
held the title of
executive direc-
tor of the health
plan association.
Halpin was
chief of staff at
Stover's lobby-
ing firm Duffy/
Stover Inc. and
moved to Robinson+Cole with him
in 1990 when he founded the firm's
government relations practice. Both
lobbyists have prior experience
working on political campaigns. Hal-
Benito Alvarez,
CEO, ProHealth
Physicians
Keith Stover,
Lobbyist,
Robinson+Cole
Jim Faircloth,
CEO, Starling
Physicians
Susan Halpin,
Lobbyist,
Robinson+Cole
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