Blum Leaving CMS After Five Years Overseeing Medicare Reforms-thegraysheet: CMS Principal Deputy Administrator Jonathan Blum is leaving his CMS post May 16, CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner announced in an April 22 email to staff. Blum, who has been directing CMS’ Medicare office, is leaving to pursue “new opportunities.” Sean Cavanaugh, deputy director of CMS’ Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, has been tapped as director of the Center of Medicare, but nobody had been named principal deputy administrator as of Friday afternoon, April 25.
