Chiquita Brooks-LaSure started out working as a program examiner in HHS at the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) from 1999 through 2003. (Photo: House Ways and Means Committee)
President Joe Biden today said he will nominate Chiquita White Brooks-LaSure to be his nominee for the post of administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
As the head of CMS, Brooks-LaSure would manage or help regulate about $3 trillion in spending by Medicare plans, Medicaid plans, and the individual and group major medical insurance policies that come under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
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Allison Bell
Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.
