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Charles N. ("Chip") Kahn III is an American health policy expert and former trade association executive who currently serves as an Independent Director of Soren Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: SORNU), a healthcare-focused special purpose acquisition company that priced a $220 million IPO in January 2026. He was appointed to the Soren board on January 6, 2026, and also serves on both the audit and compensation committees, chairing the compensation committee. Through his membership interests in Soren's sponsor, Kahn holds an indirect interest in 75,000 founder shares. Beyond his SPAC role, Kahn is a visiting senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where his work focuses on health care policy, payment reform, and the future of American healthcare. He concurrently serves as a senior visiting fellow at KFF—where he hosts the podcast *KFF's Business of Health Care with Chip Kahn*—and as a nonresident senior scholar at the University of Southern California's Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics. He is also a founding member and co-chair of the Future of Health, an international collaborative of senior health care leaders.
Kahn's career spans more than four decades across Capitol Hill, the private insurance sector, and the hospital industry. He earned a BA in social and behavioral sciences from Johns Hopkins University and an MPH in health systems management from Tulane University's Celia Scott Weatherhead School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. After completing an administrative residency with the Teaching Hospital Department of the Association of American Medical Colleges, he served as director of the Office of Financial Management Education at the Association of University Programs in Health Administration. He then worked as a senior health policy advisor to Senator David Durenberger (R-MN) and as legislative assistant for health to then-Senator Dan Quayle (R-IN). From 1986 to 1993, Kahn served as Minority Health Counsel on the Health Subcommittee of the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee, and from 1995 to 1998 he served as the subcommittee's Staff Director. In those roles, he played a central role in drafting landmark legislation including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the Medicare provisions of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997. During the intervening period and again from 1998 to 2001, Kahn held senior positions at the Health Insurance Association of America (HIAA), serving as Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer/President-Designate, and ultimately President. At HIAA, he was responsible for the famous "Harry and Louise" advertising and public affairs campaign that significantly influenced the national debate over the Clinton administration's 1993–1994 health reform proposal.
In 2001, Kahn became President and CEO of the Federation of American Hospitals (FAH), the national advocacy organization for tax-paying hospitals, a position he held for 24 years until his retirement on December 31, 2025. He was succeeded by Charlene MacDonald on January 1, 2026. During his tenure at FAH, Kahn was recognized for 23 consecutive years on Modern Healthcare's "100 Most Influential People in Healthcare" list. He played a significant role in the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, working with leaders of the American Hospital Association and the Catholic Health Association to forge a hospital industry agreement with congressional leaders and the Obama administration. Kahn also served as co-chair of the strategy-setting Coordinating Committee of the National Quality Forum's (NQF) Measure Applications Partnership—established under the ACA to advise HHS on performance-based payment measures—and as a member of the NQF Governing Board, where he helped build consensus on national priorities for healthcare quality reform. He was a founding principal of the Hospital Quality Alliance (HQA), a public-private partnership focused on improvi
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