Hatch Says CMS Should Break From HHS As Finance Questions Burwell On Budget

Senate Finance Committee Chair Orrin Hatch (R-UT) called for CMS to be set up as an independent agency as lawmakers questioned HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell Wednesday (Feb. 4) on a wide range of policies both in the president's budget and outside it. He suggested that like the Social Security Administration, which was separated from HHS in 1994, CMS should become its own independent agency, and said he intends to introduce legislation to that effect. “For some time now, I have...