CMS Medicaid Chief Brian Neale To Leave CMS After Steering Program In New Direction

CMS' top Medicaid and CHIP official, Brian Neale, will soon leave CMS, according to a staff memo shared with Inside Health Policy on Tuesday (Jan. 23). Neale, a closely ally of Vice President Mike Pence, spent a year helping to craft the Trump administration's new policy direction on Medicaid, and reasons for his departure remain unclear. “Next month, Brian will be leaving CMS to pursue other opportunities,” CMS Administrator Seema Verma wrote in the email to CMS staff Tuesday...