Name: Don Trigg
Previous title: CEO, Apree Health
New title: CEO, Veradigm
Trigg will take up the chief executive position at the health IT firm on Sept. 2, Veradigm said in a press release on Monday.
Trigg will receive an annual base salary of $1 million for his work as chief executive of Veradigm, the company said in a securities filing. Additionally, he’ll be eligible for an annual bonus of $1 million, as well as an equity grant of $3 million worth of stock and at least $5 million in annual equity awards next year.
Trigg was most recently CEO of Apree Health, a primary care and patient navigation company that was acquired by insurer Elevance, until April this year. Trigg also worked at Cerner from 2004 to 2010 and again from 2013 to 2021, most recently serving as president of the electronic health record vendor.
Trigg’s appointment comes shortly after Veradigm’s interim CEO, Tom Langan, stepped down from the post after a little more than a year in the role.
Since his departure, Veradigm leaders Jay Bhattacharyya, Eric Jacobson and Lee Westerfield have collectively managed the interim CEO office. They’ll return to their positions as the company’s general manager of Veradigm Payer, general counsel and interim CFO, respectively, according to a securities filing.
Trigg joins the company after Veradigm struggled for years to comply with financial reporting requirements. The firm was delisted from Nasdaq in February 2024 after failing to report its annual or quarterly financial results since the end of 2022, which Veradigm said was linked to “internal control failures.”
However, the company has made some progress. In the spring, Veradigm issued its full year report for 2022, as well as restated filings for 2020, 2021 and the first three quarters of 2022.
The health IT firm also released some preliminary results for the first quarter this year. The firm expects to become current on its financial filings in 2026.
