By Louise Radnofsky
Marilyn Tavenner, the top official at the U.S. agency overseeing
the troubled rollout of the health law and the Medicare insurance
program for the elderly, is leaving her post in February, agency
officials confirmed Friday.
Ms. Tavenner will be replaced as administrator at the Centers
for Medicare and Medicaid Services by Andy Slavitt, who will
ultimately need Senate confirmation if he is to become a permanent
replacement. As a top executive at UnitedHealth Group, Mr. Slavitt
had worked closely with the agency on HealthCare.gov's technical
issues and was brought in-house in 2014.
News of Ms. Tavenner's plans to leave after five years at the
agency was first reported by the Huffington Post.
Ms. Tavenner had come to CMS from Virginia state government,
where she was health secretary. She started her career as a nurse,
and rose to executive positions in the private-hospital sector. At
the time of her nomination to CMS, she had been considered one of
the most uncontroversial candidates to succeed Don Berwick, who
never got Senate confirmation and instead served as acting
administrator.
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