Politico November 6, 2025
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WASHINGTON — Chris Klomp says the reason he took the job to lead the Medicare division at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services was that he felt guilty about his entrepreneurial pursuits in health care.
“I made a lot of money in healthcare as an entrepreneur,” he said at the Milken Institute Future of Health Summit in Washington on Wednesday. “I think I might have gotten more value from it than I contributed, and I feel guilt about that.”
Background: Klomp founded Collective Medical, a company that coordinated care for patients with complex health issues. It aimed to improve communications across a patient’s team of clinicians and was later acquired in 2020 by electronic medical record company...
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