Obama to nominate Berwick to head CMS

According to Modern Healthcare magazine, an administration official says President Obama will nominate healthcare scholar Donald Berwick to be CMS administrator. Berwick, a pediatrician and noted health policy expert, is president and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). Berwick, if confirmed by the Senate, would take over an agency that has not had a permanent chief executive since Mark McClellan stepped down in the fall of 2006. Both Medicare and Medicaid will be undergoing significant changes as part of the healthcare overhaul Obama signed into law days ago. The administration official spoke on condition of anonymity because the president has not made his decision public. For more information, click here.