Drew Snyder, a Mississippi native tasked by President Donald Trump to help run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, has resigned from his position months after getting the job.
According to Politico, sources of the publication confirmed Snyder resigned Monday. Snyder, serving in the position of director and deputy administrator for CMS, is departing the agency for “personal family matters,” the report said.
Snyder, previously the longtime director of Medicaid in Mississippi, did not respond immediately to a request for comment from SuperTalk Mississippi News.
CMS confirmed the personnel change to Politico, adding that Dr. Caprice Knapp has been tabbed to serve as interim active director of CMS. Knapp is the former North Dakota Medicaid director and currently is a Medicaid counselor to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
“Drew has played an invaluable role leading our Center for Medicaid and [Children’s Health Insurance Program] Services as we began strengthening the programs to better serve the nation’s most vulnerable,” CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz said in a statement. “Caprice is an incredibly talented leader and will help lead the Center through this transition, ensuring we continue to build upon Drew’s efforts.”
Snyder served as executive director of the Mississippi Division of Medicaid from January 2018 until this past October when he announced his resignation. At the time, Gov. Tate Reeves touted him as not only the longest-serving Medicaid head in state history but the best to ever be atop the agency.
Snyder’s departure from the federal government comes as Republicans in Congress work to pass hundreds of billions of dollars in Medicaid cuts, although there is no indication the situation on Capitol Hill had anything to do with Snyder’s resignation.
