
The Front Door Newsletter · 2024-10-18 · 42 min
On our tenth episode of The Front Door Newsletter , Architect Health Co-founder & CEO, Sohum Shah interviews Jonathan (Jon) Blum, Principal Deputy Administrator and Chief Operating Officer at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). In this dual role, Jon oversees CMS’s program policy planning and implementation and day-to-day operations of the entire agency. CMS’s programs provide health coverage to more than 150 million individuals, spending more than $1.7 trillion in annual benefits with an annual operating budget of more than $7 billion. This is Jon’s second time serving in a senior leadership position at CMS. He previously served as the Deputy Administrator and Director of the Center of Medicare from 2009 - 2014, leading the agency’s Medicare payment and delivery reform strategies and the policy and program management of the Medicare program. Jon has more than 25 years of public- and private-sector experience working in health care policy and administration.