President Biden has accepted the resignation of U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Administrator Tom Engels, whom former President Trump appointed to the post in November 2019. Diana Espinosa, a career civil servant who has served as HRSA’s deputy administrator since 2015, yesterday was named acting administrator. Last year, Espinosa was given the job of managing the U.S. Health and Human Services Department’s (HHS) $177 billion COVID-19 Provider Relief Fund.
The Biden administration yesterday also named career civil servant Liz Richter to be acting administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, replacing Seema Verma. Verma spearheaded the Trump administration’s nearly 30 percent cut in Medicare Part B drug reimbursement for 340B hospitals.
President Biden has accepted the resignation of U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Administrator Tom Engels, whom former President Trump appointed to the post in November 2019. Diana Espinosa, a career civil servant who has served as HRSA’s deputy administrator since 2015, yesterday was named acting administrator. Last year, Espinosa was given the job of managing the U.S. Health and Human Services Department’s (HHS) $177 billion COVID-19 Provider Relief Fund.
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