Senate confirms Verma as CMS administrator
The U.S. Senate last night voted 55-43 to approve President Trump’s nomination of Seema Verma to serve as Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services administrator. As president and founder of health care consulting company SVC Inc., Verma worked with the state of Indiana to design its Healthy Indiana Plan for low-income uninsured adults and on Medicaid reform projects in other states.
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