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Years active
  
1999-present

Name
  
Andy Slavitt

Predecessor
  
Marilyn Tavenner



Occupation
  
Acting Administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Employer
  
Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services

Board member of
  
Hope Street Group The Itasca Project Major Gift Committee at the University of Pennsylvania Capella University

Residence
  
Edina, Minnesota, United States

Alma mater
  
University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard Business School

Rep. Cramer questions Andy Slavitt, Acting Administrator Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services


Andrew M. "Andy" Slavitt is a former Acting Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), a position he held from March 2015 to January 2017. A leader of the team which repaired healthcare.gov after its problematic rollout, he was nominated by Barack Obama to run CMS in July 2015.

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Andy slavitt presents at hhs pharmaceutical forum


Biography

Slavitt graduated from both The College of Arts and Sciences and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1988, and earned an MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1993.

After graduating from college, he was an investment banker with Goldman Sachs; after receiving his MBA he joined McKinsey & Company as a consultant. In 1999 he founded Health Allies, a healthcare company, and served as its CEO until 2003, when the company was acquired by UnitedHealth Group where he served as CEO of OptumInsight and the Group Executive Vice President for Optum, subsidiaries of UnitedHealth Group.

Personal life

In 1996, he married Lana Etherington; they have two sons, Caleb and Zachary.

References

Andy Slavitt Wikipedia