CMS Taps Ardent Medicaid Critic As New Top Medicaid Official

The Trump administration announced a new Medicaid chief Monday (Oct. 15): Mary Mayhew, a former Maine health official who has vociferously criticized Medicaid expansion and sought to tighten eligibility requirements in traditional Medicaid. She is the new deputy administrator of CMS and director of the Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services (CMCS), succeeding Brian Neale, who left that position in January . Tim Hill served as the acting CMCS director after Neale’s departure, and with Mayhew’s appointment, Hill returns to...