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A New Medicare Honcho--For Now

Posted on September 05, 2007

President Bush today named Kerry Weems acting chief of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Bush nominated Weems for the permanent job in May, but the Senate s still deciding whether to approve the nomination. It s been a revolving door for temps at CMS since Mark McClellan decamped last year to become a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Weems takes over from Herb Kuhn, who in turn took the helm when Medicare drug-benefit poobah Leslie Norwalk left the interim spot in July. In his testimony before the Senate earlier this year, Weems sounded two themes that have consi...

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