Medicare and Medicaid’s Top Doctor Set to Leave Agency

Kate Goodrich, director of the Center for Clinical Standards and Quality and the chief medical officer at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, will be leaving the agency next month, the agency confirmed Wednesday.

Since August 2012, Goodrich has headed the Quality Measurement and Value-Based Incentives Group. She was responsible for the quality measurement and public reporting work, as well as the marketplace quality work portfolio, value-based incentives programs, and implementation of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015.

She previously served as the senior adviser to the director of the Center for Clinical Standards and Quality ...