Nancy-Ann Min DeParle

Nancy-Ann DeParle (born December 17, 1956) is an American expert on health care issues. She served as the director of the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) from 1997 to 2000, and the Office of Management and Budget before then. Since her departure from HCFA, she has worked as a research fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, taught at the Wharton School of Business, and acted as an investment advisor at JP Morgan Partners, LLC and on the board of directors at Boston Scientific Corporation and Cerner. She is also a Commissioner on the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC).

DeParle is a trustee at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and a director of the National Quality Forum, Accredo Health Inc., Triad Hospitals, Guidant Corporation and DaVita Corporation.

From 1987 to 1989, she served as Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Human Services in the Cabinet of Governor Ned McWherter.

She earned her bachelor's degree at University of Tennessee, a JD from Harvard Law School, and bachelors and masters degrees at Balliol College at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. She was the first woman to serve as president of the student body at The University of Tennessee at Knoxville.

She is married to Jason DeParle, a reporter for the "New York Times".

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