New Insurance Program Administrator Selected To Lead CHIP Program

President Trump has selected Brian Neale to lead the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services' Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Mr. Neale is currently executive director of the United States Congress Joint Economic Committee.

Mr. Neale previously served as the health care policy director under Mike Pence when he was the governor of Indiana and worked on the state's Medicaid demonstration project known as Healthy Indiana (HIP) 2.0 with Ms. Seema Verma, who is awaiting confirmation on her nomination to head the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

This was reported by FierceHealthcare on March 2, 2017 . . .