Medicare Chief to Resign After Obamacare Stumbles, Recovery
This article is for subscribers only.
Marilyn Tavenner, the U.S. official who directed the stumbling roll-out of Obamacare as well as its recovery in recent months, will resign as head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Tavenner said in an e-mail to staff that she’ll step down at the end of next month. She didn’t give her reasons for leaving. Andy Slavitt, a former UnitedHealth Group Inc. executive who is the agency’s second highest-ranking official, will move into Tavenner’s job on a temporary basis, Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell said in a separate e-mail to staff.