Verma: Biden Medicaid Plan Would Suppress Local Innovation

CMS Administrator Seema Verma touted the Trump administration’s efforts to reform Medicaid via data and cost transparency and state flexibility while attacking President-Elect Joe Biden's expected plan to tackle Medicaid at the federal level as an attempt to thwart local innovation in a speech to Medicaid directors Wednesday (Nov. 11). Verma told National Association of Medicaid Directors conference attendees the best solutions to the COVID-19 crisis are not developed at the federal level and state officials should focus on creating...