President Obama nominates new leader of Medicare agency
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Executive Summary
US President Barack Obama has nominated Donald Berwick, an advocate for improving the delivery of healthcare services and patient care, as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)1.
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