CMS Cuts Minority Health Offices

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Medicare, Medicaid agency cuts jobs from minority health office, other divisions, as RFK Jr. guts U.S. health department

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has slashed jobs from its minority health office and other divisions, CNBC has learned.

An office responsible for managing the agency's grants and contracts was affected by job cuts, as was a unit that serves people dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid .

Acting Administrator Stephanie Carlton detailed some of the specific offices at the agency impacted by cuts under Kennedy 's plan to restructure the Department of Health and Human Services .

Kennedy 's restructuring comes as the U.S. grapples with one of the worst measles outbreaks in more than two decades .

She noted that CMS will retain in-house teams that handle communication, human resources and information technology. The agency's IT team was not affected at all "because of the sensitivity of many of our data sets," Carlton said..

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