Seema Verma
| Seema Verma | |
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| Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services | |
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Assumed office March 14, 2017 |
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| President | Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | Andy Slavitt (acting) |
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| Political party | Republican |
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University of Maryland, College Park (BS) Johns Hopkins University (MPH) |
Seema Verma is an American health policy consultant and the current Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, serving under the Trump Administration. She is the founder and CEO of SVC Inc., a health policy consulting firm.
Verma received her bachelor's degree in life sciences from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1993. She earned a master's degree in public health with a concentration in health policy and management from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in 1996.
Verma worked for the Health & Hospital Corporation of Marion County as vice president of planning and at the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials in Washington, DC.
Verma founded the health policy consulting firm SVC Inc. in June 2001. She is president and CEO of the company, which has worked with state insurance agencies and public health agencies in preparation for the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), and assisted Indiana and Kentucky, as well as other states, in the design of Medicaid expansion programs under the ACA. In her work with Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky she developed Medicaid reform programs with the use of the Section 1115 waiver process. The 1115 waiver, which needs to be approved by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), allows states to pursue customized programs that diverge from the standard program under ACA statutory guidelines. In the case of Ohio, the program ultimately was not implemented, because the CMS denied the state's 1115 waiver application; Kentucky's application was still pending as of April 2017. Verma's firm also provided technical assistance to the state of Michigan in the implementation of their 1115 Medicaid waiver, assisted Tennessee in their coverage expansion proposal, and supported Iowa's Medicaid transition to managed care. Verma and SVC have worked with companies such as Electronic Data Systems (EDS), Hewlett Packard Enterprises (HP), Milliman, HighPoint Global, Roche Diagnostics, Health Management Associates (HMA), and Maximus.
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