WASHINGTON — Medicare has tasked a senior adviser at the agency with assembling a small army of bureaucrats to get its new drug price negotiation program up and running.
There are no job listings up on the federal government’s hiring website yet, but Medicare officials are already getting started with recruiting candidates. An organizational chart first obtained by STAT shows that the agency is aiming to hire 95 full-time employees.
Kristi Martin, who is a senior adviser at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, is spearheading the hiring process, according to three sources with knowledge of the process.
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