Jonathan (Jon) Blum, M.P.P., currently serves as the principal deputy administrator and chief operating officer at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). In this dual role, Mr. Blum 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 nearly $1.5 trillion in annual benefits with an annual operating budget of $7 billion.
This is Mr. Blum’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.
Mr. Blum has more than 25 years of public- and private-sector experience working in health care policy and administration. In addition to his positions at CMS, he has worked as a strategy and management consultant, an executive vice president for medical affairs at CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, professional staff at the Senate Finance Committee, and a program analyst at the Office of Budget and Management.
Prior to joining CMS, Mr. Blum served on several nonprofit boards with missions to improve access and equity to health care and health coverage, including Mary’s Center, a Federally Qualified Health Center; the Primary Care Coalition of Montgomery County; and the Medicare Rights Center.
Mr. Blum earned a Master of Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania.