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Agency History

Reflections on Implementing Medicare

Restructuring Medicare for the Long Term Project (January 2001) appears with permission of the National Academy of Social Insurance.

CMS Administrators

Biographies of Agency Administrators in chronological order.

The CMS Oral History Series

Interviews provide an eyewitness account of the evolution of the Department, the Agency, and the programs. Interviews include former Secretaries, Administrators, and key agency staff; former members of Congress and their staff; and others involved in agency programs. Topics include enactment and early years of the programs, formation of the agency, and recent legislation.

Why is CMS in Baltimore?

Former Executive Director of the Social Security Board gives a personal account of 1936-1939 events that led to SSA, and subsequently CMS being located in Baltimore.