tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2005 Issue 2

PEOPLE: Will Changes At The Top Hinder Medicare Reform?

Unfinished business with the MMA casts a shadow over appointments. Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson, who has served in the position since 2000, announced his resignation Dec. 3. Speculation immediately ensued that Mark McClellan, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, would take over the HHS post. But the job went instead to Michael Leavitt, who had been in charge of the Environmental Protection Agency for barely a year.At a news conference, Thompson said that he had initially wanted to resign shortly after the Medicare Modernization Act was enacted at the beginning of...

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