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Major health care player gets ready to retire

Dan Gorenstein Jan 16, 2015
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Major health care player gets ready to retire

Dan Gorenstein Jan 16, 2015
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The most important person in health care you’ve never heard of said Friday she plans to retire next month. Marilyn Tavenner runs the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and oversees those two giant health care programs. What makes her job so important? To borrow a phrase from E.F. Hutton – when CMS talks, people listen. Why? 

The usual: money and power.

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