Bush nominates McClellan to head CMS
Compliance Monitor, February 25, 2004
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President Bush will nominate Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Mark B. McClellan to be the next administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, according to a February 20 statement from the White House.
McClellan would succeed Thomas A. Scully, who left the position in December 2003 for a job with Alston & Bird, a law firm in Washington, DC.
McClellan's nomination is subject to Senate approval. According to The Washington Post, key senators of both parties predicted he would win Senate confirmation.
The position would be the third senior health policy post McClellan has occupied in the Bush administration. A physician and health economist, McClellan, 40, was a member of the White House Council of Economic Advisers and a senior health policy aide to Bush before going to the FDA in November 2002.
According to the Post, if McClellan is confirmed, FDA Deputy Commissioner Lester M. Crawford would become acting FDA commissioner.
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