Nurse-turned-exec takes on a top role

Tampa-based WellCare Health Plans promoted Elizabeth Miller, an executive with the company since 2012, to president of Florida operations.

Miller had most recently been chief operating officer for Florida, according to a release. In her new role she will have responsibility for WellCare's Medicaid and Medicare Advantage businesses statewide, including strategy, regulatory compliance, network management, sales and marketing, medical management, finance and administration, the release adds. She will report to Gregg MacDonald, who has taken a broader role at WellCare as a division president, where he will oversee Florida, Georgia and South Carolina. He was company's state president of Florida for two years.

"Liz is an innovative health care leader with extensive clinical, operational and executive management experience," MacDonald says in the release. "She has a deep understanding of what is needed to deliver quality health care to seniors, people with disabilities and those with low incomes.”