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This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Administration reform post: Michael Hash, a former deputy administrator at the Health Care Financing Administration (now CMS), has joined the administration in a top-level role in health care reform. Hash's responsibilities will include coordinating reform activities between the White House Office of Health Reform and the Department of Health and Human Services. Hash was most recently a principal at Health Policy Alternatives, a Washington-based consulting firm. He was at HCFA from 1998 to 2000 and served as deputy to Nancy-Ann DeParle, now director of the White House health reform office (1"The Gray Sheet" March 9, 2009, p. 9)