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Ex-Trump White House aide Abe Sutton likely CMMI pick
To add to the list of personnel news trickling out of the Trump transition ahead of inauguration, my colleague Rachel Cohrs Zhang scooped last night that former Trump White House and HHS aide Abe Sutton is Trump’s likely pick to direct the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation.
The pick (which isn’t final until it’s final) is one of the first indications of how CMS administrator nominee Mehmet Oz’s team could be built out in Washington.
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