Seema Verma, Trump’s nominee to head the US Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement agency, CMS, revealed very little about what changes she might make to those programs, but did caution that the agency needs to take care that its competitive-bidding program for medical suppliers does not impact beneficiary access, or cut providers out.
“A federal, one-size-fits-all approach doesn’t always work,” Verma said before the Senate Finance Committee at her Feb. 16 confirmation hearing....