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Personnel note: Tamela Perdue leaves AIF for Sunshine Health

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Tamela I. Perdue is leaving theĀ Associated Industries of Florida (AIF) forĀ Sunshine Health, one ofĀ the “largest health care plans in Florida.”

Sunshine Health announced the hire in a news release on Wednesday.

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Perdue was AIF’s general counsel for 10 years, according to her bio, and is an expert onĀ workersā€™ compensation law.Ā Gov. Rick Scott in April appointed her to the state’s Workersā€™ Compensation Panel.

At Sunshine Health, Perdue will beĀ Senior Vice President of Legislative and Government Affairs, handling its lobbying.

She also has been Corporate CounselĀ atĀ McConnaughhay, Coonrod, Pope, Weaver & Stern, “a statewide law firm specializing in insuranceĀ defense, administrative law and government consulting,” according to the news release and her Florida Bar listing.

She has an undergraduate degree from Lee University in TennesseeĀ and a law degreeĀ from Florida’s Stetson University.

The planĀ also brought onĀ Joshua Spagnola, formerĀ Deputy Chief of Staff and Legislative Affairs Director for the Florida AgencyĀ for Health Care Administration (AHCA). He’ll beĀ Vice President of Legislative and Government Affairs.

ā€œWe are proud to welcome Tammy and Josh to the Sunshine Health team,ā€ said Chris Paterson, CEO and planĀ president for Sunshine Health. ā€œTheir previous experience, guidance and counsel will help us continue toĀ contribute to health care policy in our state.”

Sunshine HealthĀ isĀ a whollyĀ owned subsidiary of Centene Corp., “a diversified, multinational health care enterprise focusing on underinsured and uninsured individuals,” according to the release.

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Before joining Florida Politics, journalist and attorney James Rosica was state government reporter for The Tampa Tribune. He attended journalism school in Washington, D.C., working at dailies and weekly papers in Philadelphia after graduation. Rosica joined the Tallahassee Democrat in 1997, later moving to the courts beat, where he reported on the 2000 presidential recount. In 2005, Rosica left journalism to attend law school in Philadelphia, afterwards working part time for a public-interest law firm. Returning to writing, he covered three legislative sessions in Tallahassee for The Associated Press, before joining the Tribuneā€™s re-opened Tallahassee bureau in 2013. He can be reached at [email protected].

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