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September 13, 2006

The Associated Press reports on a so-called Medicare holiday in which the federal government will not send medical providers Medicare reimbursements until after October 1. The American Medical Association responded by noting that they don't get a "financial responsibility holiday," so the hold should be repealed.

But even more interesting than the government's holiday on its financial obligations, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Mark McClellen, is resigning. (You may know McClellen better as the brother of Scott McClellen, the former White House press seretary.) McClellen is a physician and economist who's served in government since the late 1990s, but the biggest line on his resume may be that he oversaw the launch of Medicare's new prescription drug program, Medicare Part D. Having overseen one of the largest entitlement programs in recent history didn't seem to matter to the conservative American Enterprise Institute, which has tapped McClellan to head the think tank.

Posted by Joshua Claybourn at September 13, 2006 09:42 PM

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