Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Index / Organizations Transcripts Kathleen Sebelius ...We had assigned the job to CMS , the Centers for Medicare and Medicai... ...the original phase—is, in addition to CMS being in charge, there should've bee... ...to drive it. That was sort of the CMS administrator, but she was doing a lo... ...technology office, who had worked at CMS , was my lead in making sure that al... ...had an emergency series of meetings at CMS with the contractors, with othe... Nancy-Ann DeParle ...Financing Administration, or HCFA, now CMS [Centers for Medicare and Medicai... ...Administration, what's now called CMS . And it says something like, “There i... ...and Human Services], running HCFA, now CMS . Now that was hard work, to be sure... ...last conversation we had. I was running CMS at the time, or HCFA. He was still a... ...helpful friend to me when I was running CMS . When I became the administrator i... ...some state insurance people, because CMS has never done this before, and I wan... ...that I didn't know from my time in CMS . And both on the Republican and th... ...who had been the administrator for CMS under President Bush, said, “Mos... ...had, and especially when I was running CMS . I was confirmed to run CMS righ... ...was running CMS. I was confirmed to run CMS right after the Balanced Budget Act o... ...administration; and Tom Scully, former CMS administrator during George W. Bush'... ...and we talked about my running CMS . We talked about Rockwood, Tennessee... ...specialty societies, from my time at CMS . Because CMS is the largest payer fo... ...societies, from my time at CMS. Because CMS is the largest payer for hospitals an... ...of providers. But when I was running CMS , there was not a drug benefit fo... ...No. I knew him from when I ran CMS a little bit. And then I knew him—i... Show more... Elizabeth Fowler ...the secretary. It was then moved under CMS [Centers for Medicare and Medicai... Nicole Lurie ...the many issues that crossed FDA, CMS [Centers for Medicare and Medicai... ...so that's when I started working with CMS to be able to explore these issues, i... ...played such a role in being sure that CMS actually had the data to look. And s... ...lived on at home. So I went to CMS , and we'd had this great collaborativ... ...from other colleagues, learned that CMS does pay for about eighty-five percen... ...so we worked out a collaboration with CMS that if, in fact, a health departmen... ...We pretended there was an emergency. CMS sent us the data that was seventy-tw... Show more... Kathy Greenlee ...the Medicaid part of CMS . This country started funding Medicai... ...discussions with the White House, with CMS , with the Department of Labor on som... ...much more policy strength to help when CMS is updating the regulations on nursin... ...memorandum—what he had asked CMS to do was to write regulations wit... ...all that. Don Berwick was the head of CMS at the point that I did thi... ...general and across from the head of CMS and the director of the CDC; to be wit... Show more... Sylvia Burwell ...important hire was Kevin Counihan at CMS [Centers for Medicare and Medicai... Fiona Reeves ...of Health and Human Services called CMS [Centers for Medicare & Medicai... ...Health and Human Services called CMS [ Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ]. There were a couple call center... Related Topics go to the East Wing East Wing go to the The People's House The People's House go to the Criminal Justice Criminal Justice go to the Hawaii Hawaii go to the Human Rights Human Rights