mr. griffith for five minutes. >> thank you mr. slavitt for being here this morning and you testified you were previously employed by optim q. ssi. is that correct and i think i heard you say in your opening statement that you left their employee three weeks ago. is that also correct? >> a little bit longer. that's correct. >> how long? >> i can get you the exact date. >> i don't need the exact date. here's the question. you now work for cms and from i understand you are a very talented individual and it's a good thing for cms by the finders did your testimony as well you indicated your previous employer is managing the web site as systems integrator. is that correct? >> that is correct. >> been a natural question is an oversight committee is how were you able to manage your former employer and doesn't this create a conflict of interest? >> thank you for the question. congressman as you know there's an ethics pledge that i signed and along with that disposed of all of my stock basically that i had in the company. >> to be clear you

mr. griffith for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i do appreciate that. mr. slavitt, thank you for being here this morning. you indicated and testified you're previously employed by optimum qssi, correct? >> that's correct. >> i think i heard you say you left there three weeks ago, is that correct? >> a little longer than that, that's correct. >> how long? >> i could get you the exact date. >> i don't need the exact date. between three and four weeks. >> something in that nature, yeah. >> here's the question. you now work for cms. and from what i understand you're very talented individual and that's a good thing for cms. but if i understood your testimony as well, you indicated that your previous employer is managing the website as the systems integrator, is that correct? >> that's correct. >> okay. so then the natural question as an oversight committee is how are you able to manage your former employer and doesn't this create a conflict of interest? >> sure. yeah. thank you for the question. so congressman there is, as you know, an ethics pledge i signed and

mr. griffith for five minutes. >> thank you mr. chairman. i do appreciate that. mr. slavitt, thank you for being here this morning. you indicated and testified you're previously employed by optimum qssi, correct? >> that's correct. >> i think i heard you say you left there three weeks ago is that correct? >> a little longer than that that's correct. >> how long? >> i could get you the exact date. >> i don't need the exact date. between three and four weeks. >> something in that nature, yeah. >> here's the question. you now work for cms. and from what i understand you're very talented individual and that's a good thing for cms. but if i understood your testimony as well, you indicated that your previous employer is managing the website as the systems integrator, is that correct? >> that's correct. >> okay. so then the natural question as an oversight committee is how are you able to manage your former employer and doesn't this create a conflict of interest? >> sure. yeah. thank you for the question. so congressman there is as you know, an ethics pledge i signed and al

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mr. griffith. based on your background it looks like cms is going to be the beneficiary of your experience. you talked about your many years in the private sector. could you give a quick summary of your years of experience and expertise? >> sure. i started my own health information technology company back in the 90's. was a small business that ended up serving consumers. how worked for a number of years the health of permission technology business. worked closely on building industry wide capabilities around things like revenue cycle management. i worked closely with hospitals, a physician groups, health insurance plans, state governments all really focused on quality, cost, and access issues. >> and to summarize, when you were responding to mr. griffiths questions you led the team that basically made health care usable in october. >> correct. >> okay. i want to ask you, you have all of those years of experience and expertise and information technology specifically in the health care arena. how muc

mr. griffith, for five minutes. >> thank you so much for being here today. i appreciate it very much. the report indicates that cms did not engage in effective planning or oversight. what do you recommend they do in the future to make sure they have proper planning jeempb sight? because they apparently dropped the ball. >> they have the tools in place. >> okay. >> one of the primary tools is a strategic plan, an acquisition strategy is what it's called. there's actually a template in the hhs regulations for each of the areas that needs to be addressed, and fundamentally, it's a tool designed to identify the risks that the agency is undertaking and to be able to come up with a plan to be able to mitigate those risks, but they did not follow it. so the tools are there, they did not use the tools that were there. >> i want to ask you an open-ended question because i think it's important that we get this perspective from time to time, and that would be out of the report what have with he not asked you about that we probably should have asked you about or the people watching this at home,

mr. griffith is recognized for five minutes. >> i would say when we talk about the rates on the affordable care act they maybe growing slower or faster we will have to see what happens this fall. there was another promise made that wasn't kept by the affordable care act and i would like to yield to dr.cats of louisiana with the rest of my time. >> first, let's go over the legal aspect. i noticed it was estimated this would return $8 billion to the treasure and now they gloss over it isn't going to return money and it will be neutral. that is a far cry from being $8 billion to the government. cbo in their writings say the reason they called it $8 billion was because there were payments ba back. as it turns out, no money back to the treasure, but i am told before mr. issa's committee it is estimated insure ''r will as for a billon more than initially requested and it isn't clear where the money comes from. the memo that hhs justifies with is interesting. they say they are going to call this a fee but in the president's budget he doesn't call this a budget. additionally it is also of interest

mr. griffith for five minutes. >> thank you, i appreciate it, and i appreciate you here to testify for us. if i could get you to turn to tab 5 in the booklet. as you look at tab 5, that is the hhs inspector general report regarding the cdc. which says it was sent to you. have you seen this before at some point? front page says it was sent to you. if i could direct you to page 5. the inspector general's office could not verify approved individuals for select agents had not received the required training. do you see that? >> yes. >> likewise, select agent inventory records are incomplete and you acknowledge that's on that page? >> yes. >> if you go over to page 6, the report says that agents stored in areas not listed in the registration? you see that at the top of the page as well, page 6? >> yes. >> thank you. and one example is a scientist found a vial of select agent in a drawer and another found 16 vials stored in an unsecured freezer. do you see that in that paragraph? >> yes. >> the report also states there were unauthorized transfers and packages received by unapproved individuals.

mr. griffith, for five minutes. >> thank you very much for being here today. the report indicated that they did not engage in effective planning or oversight and what do you recommend they do in the future to make sure they have proper planning and oversight? they apparently dropped the ball. >> they have the tools in place. >> okay. >> one of the primary tools is the strategic plan and an acquisition strategy is what it's called. an actually a template in the hh regulations for each of the areas that needs to be addressed. and fundamentally, it's a tool designed to identify the risks that the agency is undertaking. and to be able to come up with a plan to be able to mitigate those risks. but they did not follow it. so the tools are there. they did not use the tools that were there. and. >> let me ask you an open-ended question. because i think it's important that we get this perspective frth from time to time. and that would be, out of the report, what have we not asked you about that we probably should have asked you about or the people watching this at home

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