Making Health Care Conflicts of Interest Great Again: A Consultant to Medicaid and Simultaneously to Medicaid Vendors for CMS?

President Trump campaigned on behalf of the neglected middle class, but at least in the health care sphere, those he has chosen for their advice or considered for nomination seemed to be more the corporate class.Tomorrow, Ms Seema Verma, nominated by the Trump administration to be director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), one of the most powerful US government health care positions, will have an opportunity to appear before a Senate committee.  Ms Verma, unlike some other people President Trump has considered for health care leadership or advisory positions,  does seem to have a background in health care policy, if not actual on the ground health care.  But like many of those people, she has been accused of having important conflicts of interest.Working as a Indiana State Consultant on Medicaid While Consulting for a Prominent Medicaid VendorBack in 2014, theIndianapolis Star reported on conflicts of interest affecting Ms Verma, then a consultant to Indiana state government on Medicaid services, while her company simultaneously worked for a Hewlett-Packard subsidiary that was a vendor to the Indiana Medicaid program.The Star described Ms Verma ' s work for the state thus:Verma enjoys atremendous amount of sway for a private contractor. She has her own office at the state government center. Earlier this year, Pence turned to her tobroker a deal with the state ' s hospital industry to help finance his plan to expand the Healthy Indiana Plan...
Source: Health Care Renewal - Category: Health Management Tags: CMS conflicts of interest Donald Trump Medicaid Source Type: blogs