Marilyn Tavenner is an American government official and health-care executive who served as the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid....
Marilyn Tavenner's 6 research works with 250 citations, including: Optimizing Health for Persons With Multiple Chronic Conditions.
From Insurance Industry Regulator To Advocate
Politics
Marilyn Tavenner is the new president and CEO of AHIP.
By Lucia Graves and National Journal
Until February, Marilyn Tavenner was the head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services at the Health and Human Services Department, and best known as the Obama administration official chiefly responsible for the rollout of Healthcare.gov.
Then she stepped down from that post and disappeared from view, only to resurface in August—on the other side of the negotiating table.
Tavenner, 64, is now CEO and president of America’s Health Insurance Plans, the nation’s largest association of insurance companies, where she divides her time between management, speaking functions, and directing AHIP’s legislative agenda, including meeting with members of Congress.
(Federal conflict-of-interest rules bar her from directly lobbying CMS or other parts of HHS.) She’s excited about her new mission, which she views as a logi