Cindy Mann To Step Down As Medicaid Chief In January

CMS Medicaid Chief Cindy Mann will leave the agency in late January after serving as the head of CMS' Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program for five years, the agency announced Friday (Dec. 19). Deputy Director of the Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services Vikki Wachino will serve as acting director until the agency finds a permanent replacement, CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner wrote in an email to CMS staff. "In the five years that Cindy has led CMCS, she has...