HCFA Offers Coverage Leadership Position To Agency Outsider
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
The permanent director position at the Health Care Financing Administration's Coverage and Analysis Group has been offered to Sean Tunis, MD, a health care methodologist currently working at Johns Hopkins University. It has not yet been announced whether Tunis has accepted the position.
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