Overview
- Ways and Means Chair Jason Smith and Energy and Commerce Chair Brett Guthrie released the witness list and schedule for the insurer CEO testimony.
- Executives named to appear are Stephen Hemsley of UnitedHealth Group, David Joyner of CVS Health, Gail Boudreaux of Elevance Health, David Cordani of The Cigna Group, and Paul Markovich of Ascendiun.
- The CEOs are slated to testify before the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health in the morning and the Ways and Means Committee in the afternoon.
- The committees say the hearings will examine health care affordability, rising costs, and the role of large insurers, with Republicans emphasizing competition, patient choice, and rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse.
- The announcement bills this as the first in a series of oversight hearings, and the official notice lists the date as Jan. 22, 2025, with no company responses or testimony yet recorded.