Cotton (born 1950/1951) is an American billionaire businessman, and the former owner, chairman and CEO of Meridian Health Plans.
Cotton earned an MD degree from Loma Linda University in 1974.
[2] Cotton and his family owned Meridian for two decades, growing it into the largest private provider of Medicaid benefits in Michigan and Illinois.
[4] In May 2018, WellCare Health Plans Inc announced that it was buying Meridian for US$2.5 billion.
[4] In August 2007, their son Jon Cotton was promoted to corporate president of Meridian.