Ex-Clinton official joins Health sciences board

The Clinton administration’s top Medicare official has assumed a leadership position at an organization that has been highly critical of the Bush administration’s management of the program.

Bruce Vladeck, executive director of Ernst & Young’s Health Sciences Advisory Services practice, now is president of the board of the Medicare Rights Center, a New York-based advocacy group.

{mosads}Vladeck will helm a 12-person board that also includes Marilyn Moon, a prominent health policy expert and former Congressional Budget Office analyst, and Liz Fowler, a vice president at Wellpoint Inc. and former senior Senate Finance Committee Democratic aide.

From 1993 to 1997, Vladeck was the administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration, the agency now called the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.