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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is an agency of the United States Federal Government. It operates under the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Dr. Mehmet Oz serves as CMS administrator.[1]

Organization

CMS is composed of several subsidiary agencies, including:[2]

  • Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI)
  • Center for Program Integrity (CPI)
  • Office of Burden Reduction and Health Informatics[3]
  • Quality Improvement Organization (QIO)[4]

Personnel

Name Position Notes
Mehmet Oz Administrator[2:1] -
Seema Verma Former Administrator (2017-2021)[5] COVID Collaborative, Oracle, LifeStance Health, USC Sol Price School of Public Policy
Don Berwick Former Administrator (2010-2011)[6] COVID-19 Research Database, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), Center for American Progress (CAP)
Natalie Davis Former Senior Advisor (2015-2016)[7] COVID Collaborative, United States of Care, Bipartisan Policy Center, Town Hall Ventures, Medicaid Transformation Project, Preeclampsia Foundation
Amy Chapper Staff (former)[8] National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS)

Affiliations

CMS has been a client of Computer Evidence Specialists (CES),[9] Health Resources in Action (HRIA),[10] MicroStrategy,[11] Porter Novelli[12] and Weber Shandwick.[13]

The agency's partners include:

Activities

CMS has provided funding to:

  • Center for Health Care Strategies[16]
  • New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI)[17]

CMS also allocates funding for the Vaccines for Children (VFC) program to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).[18]

  1. Seitz, A. (2025, April 3). Senate confirms Mehmet Oz to take lead of Medicare and Medicaid agency. AP News. https://apnews.com/article/oz-hhs-cms-kennedy-health-medicare-medicaid-ef02cafd3100a4794d8e882fdf2ad7b0 ↩︎

  2. Administrator. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Retrieved April 14, 2025, from https://web.archive.org/web/20250414201524/https://www.cms.gov/about-cms/who-we-are/leadership ↩︎ ↩︎

  3. New CMS office to focus on burden reduction, health informatics. (2020, June 24). American Hospital Association. https://web.archive.org/web/20250414210658/https://www.aha.org/news/headline/2020-06-24-new-cms-office-focus-burden-reduction-health-informatics ↩︎

  4. Quality Improvement Organizations. (2024, September 10). Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. https://web.archive.org/web/20250414211013/https://www.cms.gov/medicare/quality/quality-improvement-organizations ↩︎

  5. Seema Verma | Executive Biography. Oracle. Retrieved April 14, 2025, from https://web.archive.org/web/20250414202030/https://www.oracle.com/corporate/executives/seema-verma/ ↩︎

  6. Pear, R. (2011, November 23). Donald Berwick Resigning as Medicare Chief. The New York Times. http://archive.vn/2012.09.06-044612/http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/24/health/policy/dr-donald-m-berwick-resigns-as-head-of-medicare-and-medicaid.html?_r=1 ↩︎

  7. Natalie Davis | CEO and Co-Founder - United States of Care. Forbes Business Council. Retrieved April 14, 2025, from https://councils.forbes.com/profile/Natalie-Davis-CEO-Co-Founder-United-States-of-Care/589542cc-f142-4771-b8ce-553fdf77a05f ↩︎

  8. National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics - Transcript. (2020, June 17). National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics. https://web.archive.org/web/20240601225342/https://ncvhs.hhs.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/NCVHS-6-17-20_Transcript-508.pdf ↩︎

  9. Who We Serve. CES. Retrieved March 7, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230307005310/https://www.cesnb.com/who-we-serve/ ↩︎

  10. Clients. Health Resources in Action. Retrieved January 19, 2025, from https://web.archive.org/web/20250119035541/https://hria.org/work-in-action/clients/ ↩︎

  11. Federal Government Solutions. MicroStrategy. Retrieved July 31, 2024, from https://web.archive.org/web/20240731221055/https://www.microstrategy.com/solutions/federal-government ↩︎

  12. Moore, T. (2019, April 9). HHS suspends seven-figure Porter Novelli deal. PRWeek. https://web.archive.org/web/20250414212751/https://www.prweek.com/article/1581557/hhs-suspends-seven-figure-porter-novelli-deal ↩︎

  13. Dickson, V. (2012, October 4). Weber wins $3.1m contract to promote federally run healthcare exchanges. PR Week. https://web.archive.org/web/20170222133905/http://www.prweek.com/article/1277919/weber-wins-31m-contract-promote-federally-run-healthcare-exchanges ↩︎

  14. Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. (2008, January 8). Cancer Partners List in Alphabetical Order. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. https://web.archive.org/web/20080307213141/http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/partners/alpha.htm ↩︎

  15. Home. National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics. Retrieved June 1, 2024, from https://web.archive.org/web/20240601212937/https://ncvhs.hhs.gov/ ↩︎

  16. History & Funders. (2021). Center for Health Care Strategies. https://web.archive.org/web/20220712141817/https://www.chcs.org/about-us/history-funders/ ↩︎

  17. Support. New England Complex Systems Institute. Retrieved April 19, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20220419072043/https://necsi.edu/support#former-sponsors ↩︎

  18. About VFC. (2012, August 31). Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. https://web.archive.org/web/20120923051552/http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/programs/vfc/about/index.html ↩︎