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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Leadership and Contracting Organization

Current as of August 25, 2026 • Administrator: Mehmet Oz (confirmed April 2025) • Sources: cms.gov leadership pages · HHS HCA roster
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Two things to know before you read the boxes. First, CMS kept its own contracting shop: the April 2026 HHS HCA roster still lists a CMS-specific HCA, so the OMAS consolidation did NOT absorb CMS's $10B+ acquisition operation. Second, that shop has been under acting leadership since mid-2025: OAGM Director and HCA Derrick Heard retired (per trade press; the cms.gov OAGM page, last touched January 2024, still lists him and is stale), and Doug Bergevin signs as Acting HCA. CMS also stood up a new Office of Healthcare Experience and Interoperability (OHEI) whose Director seat is vacant, and created a Chief Clinical AI Officer deputy-administrator slot.
Office of the Administrator
Administrator · Senate-Confirmed
Mehmet Oz, MD
Administrator (17th)
Confirmed April 2025
Operations
Kimberly Brandt
Deputy Administrator · Chief Operating Officer
Deputy COO: John Czajkowski · no Principal Deputy Administrator is listed
Chief of Staff
Rebekah Armstrong
Chief of Staff
New AI Slot
Stephanie Carlton
Deputy Administrator · Chief Clinical AI Officer
New Role
The Centers
Medicare
John Brooks
Deputy Administrator · Director, Center for Medicare (CM)
Also Senior Counselor to the HHS Secretary · Principal Deputy: Alec Aramanda · succeeded Chris Klomp in the Feb 2026 reshuffle
Medicaid & CHIP
Daniel Brillman
Deputy Administrator · Director, CMCS
Principal Deputy: Caprice Knapp, PhD
Insurance Oversight
Peter Nelson
Deputy Administrator · Director, CCIIO
Innovation
Abe Sutton
Deputy Administrator · Director, CMS Innovation Center (CMMI)
In role since January 2025
Program Integrity
Jeneen Iwugo
Acting Director, Center for Program Integrity (CPI)
Acting Deputy: Larry Young · permanent Deputy: Jennifer Dupee
Acting
Clinical Standards
Dora Hughes, MD, MPH
CMS Chief Medical Officer · Director, CCSQ
Deputy Director seat is Acting (Will Harris)
IT, Data, and Interoperability Offices
Information Technology
Patrick Newbold
CIO · Director, Office of Information Technology (OIT)
Deputy CIO: George Hoffmann · Acting Deputy Director: Tiffany Swygert
Data
Allison Oelschlaeger
Chief Data Officer · Director, Office of Enterprise Data and Analytics (OEDA)
Interoperability · New Office
Director: VACANT
Office of Healthcare Experience and Interoperability (OHEI)
Owns interoperability, HIPAA administrative simplification, NPPES, Open Payments · senior listed official: Deputy Director Suzanne Martin-Devroye
Open Role
Actuary
Paul Spitalnic
Chief Actuary · Director, Office of the Actuary
Chief Actuary since 2013
The Contracting Chain (OAGM)
HCA · Acting
Doug Bergevin
Head of Contracting Activity (Acting) · Deputy Director, Office of Acquisition and Grants Management
Confirmed current on the HHS HCA roster (reviewed Apr 27, 2026; fetched Aug 25, 2026) · douglas.bergevin@cms.hhs.gov
Acting
OAGM Director
Seat effectively open
Derrick Heard retired mid-2025 per trade press (pending official confirmation); the cms.gov OAGM page still lists him but was last modified January 2024 and is stale
Stale Listing
Small Business
Two Small Business Specialists (unnamed)
CMS has no standalone OSDBU; its specialists sit in OAGM and represent CMS to the HHS OSDBU. The live cms.gov page names no individuals.
Capture read: the requirements engines our readers sell into (OIT, OEDA, the new OHEI, CCSQ quality systems, CPI audit tooling) are mostly under permanent leadership, but the buying authority itself is Acting and the OAGM front office is unsettled. RMADA-class and MIDAS-class recompetes will keep moving; expect conservative source selection until the HCA seat is permanent. The Chief Clinical AI Officer slot and the vacant OHEI Director seat are the two org-chart signals worth watching this fall.
Sources. CMS leadership index and per-center pages (verified 2026-08-25, cms.gov/about-cms/who-we-are/leadership; CM page modified 2026-07-15, CPI 2026-06-02, OIT 2026-06-26). HHS HCA and Key Managers roster (hhs.gov, content reviewed 2026-04-27, fetched 2026-08-25). OHEI page (cms.gov). CMS small business page (cms.gov, modified 2025-08-14). Heard retirement and the Klomp deputy-secretary nomination are trade press (OrangeSlices AI, ExecutiveGov), annotated in-line as pending official confirmation. Data current as of August 25, 2026.

What changed since this was published? Vacancies fill. Acting designations turn Permanent. We re-verify quarterly. If you spot a stale entry, email mary@missionmeetstech.com · we will update and re-cite.