Washington ? A high-ranking Medicare officer, whose medical license was suspended because he falsified documents concerning his continuing education, was reassigned to another government agency, officials said Tuesday.

The confirmation of the reassignment of Sean R. Tunis came one day after the inspector general for the Health and Human Services Department released an updated list of people and businesses excluded from doing business with federal health care programs. Tunis was on the list.

Tunis was the chief medical officer at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. He had been placed on paid administrative leave in April.

Tunis’ medical license was suspended last May for at least a year by the Maryland Board of Physicians. The board’s Web site states that it found the physician guilty of unprofessional conduct in the practice of medicine and of willfully making or filing a false report in the practice of medicine.

Tunis will now serve as a senior biomedical research scientist at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Christina Pearson, an HHS spokeswoman, said she could not discuss why a transfer was allowed. She noted, however, that the inspector general’s finding was unrelated to Tunis’ job performance.