Andy Slavitt | |
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White House Senior Advisor for the COVID-19 Response | |
In office January 20, 2021 – June 9, 2021 | |
President | Joe Biden |
Preceded by | position established |
Succeeded by | position abolished |
Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services | |
Acting | |
In office March 18, 2015 – January 20, 2017 | |
President | Barack Obama |
Preceded by | Marilyn Tavenner |
Succeeded by | Seema Verma |
Personal details | |
Born | [1] | November 16, 1966
Spouse |
Lana Etherington (m. 1996) |
Children | 2 |
Education | University 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]
...the 53-year-old former health care executive said.