“Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma intends to do all she can to help reduce regulations on the healthcare industry that she says have become burdensome but acknowledged on Thursday that her authorities in certain areas could only go so far.”
“She has worked to notify Congress about policies that she said ‘don’t work, don’t make sense, and create problems.’ One issue she has raised publicly is how Medicare doesn’t reimburse for skilled nursing facilities when a patient has surgery but isn’t formally admitted to the hospital for long enough, leaving patients holding the bag for high medical costs. Such problems, she said, were evidence that a fully government-run system that Democrats are proposing would be problematic for patients.” Read the full article here.
Source: Daily on Healthcare: Verma dishes on ‘unraveling’ government role in healthcare – By Kimberly Leonard and Cassidy Morrison, August 16, 2019. Washington Examiner.
