The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is the largest office within the Executive Office of the President of the United States (EOP). OMB's most prominent function is to produce the president's budget,but it also examines agency programs,policies,and procedures to see whether they comply with the president's policies and coordinates inter-agency policy initiatives.
The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is a cabinet-level executive branch department of the U.S. federal government created to protect the health of the U.S. people and providing essential human services. Its motto is "Improving the health,safety,and well-being of America". Before the separate federal Department of Education was created in 1979,it was called the Department of Health,Education,and Welfare (HEW).
The Centers for Medicare &Medicaid Services (CMS),is a federal agency within the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that administers the Medicare program and works in partnership with state governments to administer Medicaid,the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP),and health insurance portability standards. In addition to these programs,CMS has other responsibilities,including the administrative simplification standards from the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA),quality standards in long-term care facilities through its survey and certification process,clinical laboratory quality standards under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments,and oversight of HealthCare.gov. CMS was previously known as the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) until 2001.
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration is a branch of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. SAMHSA is charged with improving the quality and availability of treatment and rehabilitative services in order to reduce illness,death,disability,and the cost to society resulting from substance abuse and mental illnesses. The Administrator of SAMHSA reports directly to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. SAMHSA's headquarters building is located outside of Rockville,Maryland.
The General Services Administration (GSA) is an independent agency of the United States government established in 1949 to help manage and support the basic functioning of federal agencies. GSA supplies products and communications for U.S. government offices,provides transportation and office space to federal employees,and develops government-wide cost-minimizing policies and other management tasks.
The United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is an independent agency of the United States government that manages the US civilian service. The agency provides federal human resources policy,oversight,and support,and tends to healthcare (FEHB),life insurance (FEGLI),and retirement benefits for federal government employees,retirees,and their dependents.
The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is a division of the United States Department of Transportation that specializes in highway transportation. The agency's major activities are grouped into two programs,the Federal-aid Highway Program and the Federal Lands Highway Program. Its role had previously been performed by the Office of Road Inquiry,Office of Public Roads and the Bureau of Public Roads.
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services located in North Bethesda,Maryland. It is the primary federal agency for improving access to health care services for people who are uninsured,isolated or medically vulnerable.
UnitedHealth Group Incorporated is a for-profit American multinational managed healthcare and insurance company based in Minnetonka,Minnesota. Offering healthcare products and insurance services,it is the world's seventh-largest company by revenue and the largest healthcare company by revenue,and the largest insurance company by net premiums. UnitedHealthcare revenues comprise 80% of the Group's overall revenue.
CGI Inc. is a Canadian multinational information technology consulting and systems integration company headquartered in Montreal,Quebec,Canada. The company went public in 1986 with a primary listing on the Toronto Stock Exchange. CGI is also a constituent of the S&P/TSX 60 and has a secondary listing on the New York Stock Exchange.
Andrew M. Slavitt is an American businessman and healthcare advisor who served as the acting administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services from March 2015 to January 2017 and as a temporary Senior Advisor to the COVID-19 Response Coordinator in the Biden administration. A leader of the team that helped to repair the healthcare.gov website after its initial rollout,he was nominated by Barack Obama to run CMS in July 2015. In January 2021,Slavitt accepted a temporary role as Senior Pandemic Advisor to President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 pandemic response team. He stepped down from that role in June 2021.
Marilyn Barbour Tavenner is an American government official and health-care executive who served as the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services,an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services,from 2011 to 2015.
18F is a digital services agency within the Technology Transformation Services department of the General Services Administration (GSA) of the United States Government. Their purpose is to deliver digital services and technology products.
Nick Sinai is a venture capitalist,adjunct faculty at Harvard Kennedy School,author,and a former senior official in the Obama Administration.
The United States Digital Service is a technology unit housed within the Executive Office of the President of the United States. It provides consultation services to federal agencies on information technology. It seeks to improve and simplify digital service,and to improve federal websites. It was launched on August 11,2014.
Veritas Capital is a New York-based private-equity firm founded in 1992 that invests in companies providing critical products and services,primarily technology-enabled products and services,to government and commercial customers worldwide. The firm's first fund closed in 1998. They closed an eighth flagship fund in 2022;in all,Veritas has approximately $45 billion of assets under management. Veritas is led by Ramzi Musallam,the firm's Chief Executive Officer and Managing Partner.
Teresa Carlson is a Corporate Vice President and Executive-in-Residence at Microsoft and the Non-Executive Chair of KnightSwan,a special-purpose acquisition company. Previously she held the position of President and Chief Growth Officer of Splunk and Vice President for Amazon Web Services' worldwide public sector and industries businesses. Prior to working for Amazon,Carlson served as Microsoft's Vice President of Federal Government business.
Kathy Pham is a Vietnamese American computer scientist and product management executive. She has held roles in leadership,engineering,product management,and data science at Google,IBM,the Georgia Tech Research Institute,Harris Healthcare,and served as a founding product and engineering member of the United States Digital Service (USDS) in the Executive Office of the President of the United States at The White House. In 2021,Pham was named the Deputy Chief Technology Officer of the Federal Trade Commission.
Optum,Inc. is an American healthcare services provider with business interests encompassing technology and related services,pharmacy care services and various direct healthcare services. It has been a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group since 2011. UHG formed Optum by merging its existing pharmacy and care delivery services into the single Optum brand,comprising three main businesses:OptumHealth,OptumInsight and OptumRx. In 2017,Optum accounted for 44 percent of UnitedHealth Group's profits and as of 2019,Optum's revenues have surpassed $100 billion. Also in early 2019,Optum gained significant media attention regarding a trade secrets lawsuit that the company filed against former executive David William Smith,after Smith left Optum to join Haven,the joint healthcare venture of Amazon,JPMorgan Chase,and Berkshire Hathaway.
Bonnie Glick is an American diplomat and businesswoman who served as the Deputy Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development from 2019 to 2020. Nominated for the post by President Donald Trump in April 2018,she was confirmed by the United States Senate by unanimous consent in January 2019. On September 21,2021,Glick was announced as the inaugural director of the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue during the Concordia Summit on the margins of the UN General Assembly. She is a Life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
