Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> April 2, 2001

Thomas Cigarran – American Healthways Inc (amhc)

THOMAS G. CIGARRAN serves as Chairman and CEO of American Healthways, Inc., a healthcare management company headquartered in Nashville that provides comprehensive care enhancement services to over 450,000 health plan equivalent lives in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. AMHC also operates hospital-based programs for the treatment of diabetes in over 70 hospitals nationwide. Mr. Cigarran also serves as Chairman of AmSurg Corp., a single specialty practice-based ambulatory surgery center company which was spun off from American Healthways into a separate public company in December 1997. He has served as a Director of International Clinical Laboratories, Inc., Corporate Family Solutions, Inc., Clintrials Research, Inc., Meretek Diagnostics, Inc. and Genderm, Inc. He currently serves as President of The Learning Plus Foundation, a Nashville-based not-for-profit organization working with the Metropolitan Nashville Public School system. Mr. Cigarran received a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Villanova University and a Master of Business Administration degree from the New York University Graduate School of Business. Profile
TWST: Could you give us a bit of a background summary and overview on

American Healthways?

Mr. Cigarran: American Healthways is really in two separate businesses

right now. One addresses