CMS announces senior leadership appointments
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Acting Administrator Charlene Frizzera today announced the appointment of new directors of the Center for Medicare Management (CMM) and the Office of Legislation (OL), as well as acting leadership of the Center for Drug and Health Plan Choice (CPC) and the Office of Financial Management (OFM).
CMS has named Jonathan Blum as the director of (CMM). Blum joins CMS from Avalere Health where he served as Vice President of Medicaid and Long-Term Care Practice. Blum most recently served on the professional staff of the Senate Finance Committee as an advisor to Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) and other Finance Committee members on prescription drug and Medicare Advantage policies during the development of the Medicare Modernization Act. Prior to the Finance Committee, Blum was a program examiner with White House Office of Management and Budget, working on a range of Medicare payment and reform issues, including hospital payment policy, managed care policy, and fee-for-service delivery reform. Blum also served as a health policy advisor to the Obama-Biden Transition Team.
Blum will also be Acting Director, Center for Drug and Health Plan Choice (CPC). Abby Block, who has led CPC since 2005, will serve as senior advisor to the administrator. Tim Hill, currently the director of the Office of Financial Management (OFM), will assume responsibility as the acting deputy director, CPC. Deb Taylor, currently the deputy director of OFM, will serve as the acting director of OFM and Wes Perich will serve as the acting deputy director of the OFM.
Amy Hall, who most recently was an advisor to the House Energy and Commerce Committee, has been named the director of the CMS Office of Legislation (OL) and will develop the legislative agenda for CMS, working closely with staff and leadership in CMS, the department, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and the White House. In her 11 years as House of Representatives staffer, Hall worked on major health care financing legislation involving Medicaid, Medicare, Children's Health Insurance Program and the uninsured.
