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Nashville Health Care Exec Top Contender For Trump’s Medicare Innovation Chief

Blake Farmer

September 10, 2019

Listen The co-founder of a Nashville health care startup is reportedly the top contender to oversee innovation for Medicare and Medicaid. Politico has reported the Trump Administration is on the verge of hiring Brad Smith, whose career has straddled both health care and politics.

Filed Under: Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: Aspire Health, Bill Frist

Left-Leaning Education Advocates Join Common Core Resistance In Tennessee

Blake Farmer

January 27, 2014

Pushback to Common Core State Standards has been led primarily by conservatives until now.

Filed Under: Education, WPLN News Tagged With: Bill Frist, Common Core, Kevin Huffman, Lyn Hoyt

Nashville Health Care Industry Turns to Fellows for the Future

Blake Farmer

November 12, 2012

Some of the country’s most influential health care companies are banding together to train the industry’s next generation of executives. The Nashville Health Care Council announced its “Fellows” program Monday.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: Bill Frist, Nashville Health Care Council

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