Magellan Health, Inc. announced that the Company’s Board of Directors has appointed James Murray as president and chief operating officer of Magellan Health. In this role, he will lead the Magellan Behavioral and Specialty Health and Magellan Complete Care business segments, effective December 9, 2019. Murray will join Magellan Health after serving as president of PrimeWest Health, a Dallas-based company which supports physician shift to value based care. From 2017-2019, he served as chief executive officer of LifeCare HealthPartners, a Dallas-based hospital system. Prior to these roles, Murray held significant leadership roles at Humana over a career spanning nearly three decades. As executive vice president and chief operating officer, Murray served on Humana’s executive team and was responsible for all lines of business which included Medicare, Commercial, Medicaid and Tricare. In previous Humana leadership roles, Murray had oversight of sales, underwriting, actuarial, network and clinical management, customer service and information technology. He also held the role of chief financial officer for nine years.