View from CMS: Andy Slavitt talks to AHCJ

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March 7, 3 p.m. ET

CMS Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt oversees Medicaid, Medicare, Children’s Health Insurance Program and the ACA health insurance exchanges. And he’s deeply involved with CMS efforts to improve value and quality of U.S. health care by changing delivery models and payment incentives. He’s talking to AHCJ members about what’s ahead this year.

The webcast will be moderated by Joanne Kenen, AHCJ’s core topic leader on health reform and health editor at Politico.

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This event is exclusively for AHCJ members so you will need your website login and password. If you don’t have that, please visit this page and enter your email address to have an access key sent to you.

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About the speaker

Andy Slavitt is the acting administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, where he oversees programs that provide access to health care for 140 million Americans, including Medicaid, Medicare, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and the Health Insurance Marketplace.

Slavitt and the CMS team are focused on improving quality, health outcomes, access and affordability while addressing health disparities and protecting program integrity, including combatting health care fraud.

Since joining CMS in July 2014 as principal deputy administrator, Slavitt has worked strengthen the performance of the Health Insurance Marketplace and the success of the 2014 Open Enrollment season. Since taking the role in February, Slavitt’s focus as acting administrator is on strengthening CMS’s role in helping the health care delivery system meet the evolving needs of consumers by transforming the way care is paid for, providing the tools to make the system thrive and by fostering simplicity and transparency.

In the private sector, he served as group executive vice president for Optum, as CEO of OptumInsight and he was founder and CEO of HealthAllies. Prior to that, he was a strategy consultant with McKinsey & Company, and an investment banker with Goldman Sachs.