CMS Administrator Tom Scully resigned effective Dec. 15, following three years at the helm of the nation’s second and third-largest domestic programs, Medicare and Medicaid.
Scully became the ninth administrator of the agency formerly known as the Health Care Financing Administration on March 22, 2001. He led an intensive effort to improve the responsiveness of the agency, with a new name, adopted from suggestions made by agency employees. He also significantly expanded efforts to inject quality measurement into the agency’s programs.