Longtime Tufts Health Plan CEO James Roosevelt plans to step down Jan. 1, and president and chief operating officer Tom Croswell will step into the top spot at the health insurance company.
Roosevelt started 16 years ago at Tufts Health Plan as senior vice president and general counsel. He was appointed CEO in 2005, when the plan had about 600,000 members, and helped build membership up to more than one million.
Also during his tenure, Tufts acquired Network Health, created the Tufts Health Plan Foundation, and both reentered the Rhode Island market and formed a new insurance company in New Hampshire, Tufts Health Freedom Plan.
After stepping down, Roosevelt plans to continue his work with Tufts Health Plan as an advisor and consultant.
Croswell joined Tufts in 2013, and before that was senior vice president of medical management and specialty businesses at CIGNA HealthCare.
