Managed Healthcare Industry Forum Presents:

How Health Plans Can Survive Reform

Monday, June 28, 2010 • New York City

BIOGRAPHICAL PROFILE

Linda Tiano President Health Net of the North East

Linda V. Tiano is president of Regional Health Plans, Health Net of the Northeast, Inc. In this position, she has responsibility for the company’s obligation to manage the Northeast health plans recently sold to UnitedHealthcare, including the transition of business to UnitedHealthcare.

Ms. Tiano joined the company in February 2007 as senior vice president, general counsel and secretary. Prior to joining Health Net’s legal department, she was senior vice president and general counsel for WellChoice, Inc., the parent of Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield. Following WellChoice’s acquisition by WellPoint, Inc. in late 2005, Ms. Tiano was vice president and deputy general counsel for the East Region and National Accounts for WellPoint.

Before her tenure at WellChoice, Ms. Tiano was vice president and general counsel of MVP Health Plan in New York and, prior to MVP, she was a partner in the New York office of Epstein Becker & Green.

Ms. Tiano earned her J.D. from Boston University Law School and her bachelor’s degree from the University of Cincinnati. She is a member of the New York Bar.

Health Net is among the nation’s largest publicly traded managed health care companies and is currently ranked #165 on the 2009 Fortune 500 list of corporations. Health Net’s mission is to help people be healthy, secure and comfortable. The company’s health plans and government contracts subsidiaries provide health benefits to more than 6 million individuals across the country through group, individual, Medicare, Medicaid and TRICARE and Veterans Affairs programs. Health Net’s behavioral health subsidiary, MHN, provides mental health benefits to approximately 6.5 million individuals in all 50 states. The company's subsidiaries also offer managed health care products related to prescription drugs, and offer managed health care product coordination for multi-region employers and administrative services for medical groups and self-funded benefits programs.