INDUSTRY NOTES : Obama Expected to Name New CMS Chief Soon
Plus: CMS correcting errors, helping with e-prescribing incentive program.
President-elect Barack Obama is due to appoint a new CMS Administrator any day now, but some pundits fear that the new CMS head might be taking on the previous administration's problems with the new post.
According to a Dec. 9 article in The Hill, Obama "plans significant changes in the way Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP are run, and the president-elect's choice for administrator of CMS will be the one tasked with putting those new policies in place."
That's in addition to overseeing a $676 billion annual budget and 4...
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