Not too many have their mom as head of the two government health insurance programs.

Matt Tavenner does.

Matt, assistant administrator at in Mayfield, Ky., is the son of , whom President Barack Obama in December nominated to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Jackson Purchase is one of 54 hospitals owned by Brentwood-Tenn.based LifePoint Hospitals.

Marilyn Tavenner, who joined the Obama administration in February 2010 and has served as acting administrator since December, mentioned her son, Matt, in a brief talk Tuesday before about 1,000 people at the conference in Washington. The federation represents for-profit hospital chains, including Nashville-based HCA, where Tavenner spent 25 years before becoming Virginia’s secretary of health and human resources in 2006.

Her experience as a nurse and administrator means she’s well aware of how government policies affect caregivers and hospital executives, Tavenner said. “I also have a son at LifePoint who texts me with what we screwed up in Washington,” she said. “It’s a reality check.”

Before getting his graduate degree in Healthcare Administration at Virginia Commonwealth University (also his mother’s ), Matt Tavenner worked at HCA for nearly four years as a patient access director, according to his LinkedIn profile. He did not return a call for comment.

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