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Transitioning to Medicare Administrative Contractors

Sue Lathroum is the director of the Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) Information Exchange Staff of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). She has been with CMS for most of her more than 30 years with the federal government, devoting most of that time to activities concerning Medicare fee-for-service contractor management. After a decade of overseeing planning and operational aspects of CMS's annual Contractor Performance Evaluation process, Lathroum assumed responsibility for communications associated with the Medicare Contracting Reform (MCR) requirement of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act (MMA) of 2003.

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