Charles N. (“Chip”) Kahn III is one of the nation’s most notable and quotable experts on health policy, Medicare payment, health care financing, and the uninsured. Since June 2001, he has served as President of the Federation of American Hospitals (FAH), the national advocacy organization for investor-owned hospitals and health systems. Mr. Kahn is one of only 17 health care leaders who have appeared on Modern Healthcare magazine’s annual “100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare” list since its inception. In May, 2008, The Hill newspaper selected him as one of the capital’s top lobbyists for the eighth consecutive year.
 
Mr. Kahn is at the forefront of national initiatives to shape policy for health care quality and information technology. In June 2007, he was appointed to the Governing Board of the National Quality Forum (NQF), a not-for-profit private-public partnership and the nation’s preeminent organization for developing and implementing a national strategy for health care quality measurement. Mr. Kahn also serves as a principal in the Hospital Quality Alliance (HQA), a private public partnership that he helped to initiate, and served as a Commissioner of the American Health Information Community, a former federal policy advisory panel. Before coming to the FAH, Mr. Kahn was one of the nation’s top leaders in the health insurance industry. From January 1998 to June 2001, while President of the Health Insurance Association of America (HIAA), he focused national attention upon the plight of the uninsured.