Andy Slavitt

Andy Slavitt
Slavitt in 2015
White House Senior Advisor
for the COVID-19 Response
In office
January 20, 2021 – June 9, 2021
PresidentJoe Biden
Preceded byposition established
Succeeded byposition abolished
Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Acting
In office
March 18, 2015 – January 20, 2017
PresidentBarack Obama
Preceded byMarilyn Tavenner
Succeeded bySeema Verma
Personal details
Born (1966-11-16) November 16, 1966 (age 58)[1]
Spouse
Lana Etherington
(m. 1996)
Children2
EducationUniversity of Pennsylvania (BS)
Harvard University (MBA)

Andrew M. Slavitt (born 1966)[2] is an American businessman and healthcare advisor who served as the acting administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services from March 2015 to January 2017 and as a temporary Senior Advisor to the COVID-19 Response Coordinator in the Biden administration. A leader of the team that helped to repair the healthcare.gov website after its initial rollout, he was nominated by Barack Obama to run CMS in July 2015.[3][4][5] In January 2021, Slavitt accepted a temporary role as Senior Pandemic Advisor[6] to President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 pandemic response team. He stepped down from that role in June 2021.[7]

  1. ^ @ASlavitt (October 16, 2021). "I just visited France where I had to show this RFID to get on a plane, a train, enter a restaurant or a bar or a hotel" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  2. ^ Walsh, James (October 10, 2020). "Minnesota's Andy Slavitt: An influential voice on COVID-19". Minneapolis Star-Tribune. ...the 53-year-old former health care executive said.
  3. ^ Tracer, Zachary and spunce (July 9, 2015). "Obama Nominates Andy Slavitt to Run Medicare, Medicaid Agency". Bloomberg Business. Retrieved September 8, 2015.
  4. ^ O'Donnell, Jayne (February 23, 2015). "Changes at the top of Medicare, Medicaid agency". USA Today. Retrieved September 8, 2015.
  5. ^ Cooney, Peter (July 9, 2015). "Obamacare acting administrator Slavitt nominated to head agency". CNBC. Reuters. Retrieved September 8, 2015.[permanent dead link]
  6. ^ "StackPath". www.hcinnovationgroup.com. May 18, 2021. Retrieved June 15, 2021.
  7. ^ Sheehey, Maeve (June 9, 2021). "Andy Slavitt stepping down from White House Covid-19 response role". POLITICO. Retrieved June 15, 2021.