Boudreaux will take the role on Nov. 20. She recently served as
CEO of United Healthcare, a unit of the biggest U.S. health
insurer, UnitedHealth Group Inc <UNH.N>.
Boudreaux's appointment is likely to drive Anthem's stock price
higher, analysts at Leerink Partners said on Friday, after the
Wall Street Journal first reported the news.
Swedish will serve as Anthem's executive chairman and step down
from that role in May next year. He will be senior adviser
through May 2020, the company said.
Swedish orchestrated Anthem's $54 billion merger proposal to
smaller rival Cigna Corp <CI.N> in 2015, which was ultimately
scrapped due to regulatory issues.
(Reporting by Ankur Banerjee in Bengaluru; Editing by Bernard
Orr and Sai Sachin Ravikumar)
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