HLT 308V Week 3 DQ 2

In 2011, the Center for Medicine and Medicaid Services (CMS) published a list of health care-acquired conditions (HACs). What actions has your health care organization (or health care organizations in general) implemented to manage or prevent these “never events” from happening within their health care facilities? Support your response with two peer-reviewed articles.

 

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Center for Medicine and Medicaid Services (CMS)

Introduction

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is the federal agency responsible for overseeing Medicare, Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program. The agency is part of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The CMS is run by an administrator who is a political appointee. The current head of CMS is Seema Verma. She was picked to lead by President Donald Trump. President Obama appointed her to be an adviser on health policy SVC Inc., a health care consulting firm based in Indianapolis, Indiana

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is the federal agency responsible for overseeing Medicare, Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program.

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is the federal agency responsible for overseeing Medicare, Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program. It’s part of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which means it works with other agencies across government. CMS is run by an administrator who is a political appointee—the current head of CMS is Seema Verma.

The purpose of this article isn’t to explain how CMS works or what its responsibilities are; rather, we’ll focus on how these programs affect you as a consumer or patient in need of care from one or more providers within those systems.*

The agency is part of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

CMS is part of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The agency’s administrator is appointed by the president and confirmed by Congress.

The current head of CMS, Seema Verma, is a Republican political appointee who was nominated in June 2017 as Secretary-General of Medicare Advantage (MA) program. She was expected to be confirmed as Secretary-General for MA but had not been officially nominated when President Trump took office and then withdrew her name from consideration for that position after she also declined an offer to become Secretary-General at HHS; instead choosing to stay with CMS until her term ended in 2018.

The CMS is run by an administrator who is a political appointee.

The CMS is run by an administrator who is a political appointee. The administrator does not have to be a medical doctor, but he or she must be appointed by the President and can only serve for five years before needing to be reappointed.

The current head of CMS is Seema Verma. She was picked to lead by President Donald Trump.

Seema Verma is a political appointee and health policy expert who was picked by President Donald Trump to head CMS. She has been in the health care industry for over 20 years, including five years as a senior advisor at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

Verma came to prominence when she was hired as deputy secretary of HHS under then-President Barack Obama in 2013. During her tenure at HHS, Verma helped lead implementation of Obamacare. She also played an instrumental role in developing strategies to expand coverage through Medicaid expansion and private insurance exchanges under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

President Obama appointed her to be an adviser on health policy

President Obama appointed her to be an adviser on health policy in 2014. In 2015, Verma was appointed as a deputy administrator at CMS and was expected to be nominated for the position of secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) by President Obama. This would have made her one of the most powerful people in Washington, D.C., but she did not receive approval from Congress because Republicans blocked her nomination from advancing through committee stages.

Verma’s name had been floated as possible candidates for HHS secretary earlier in this election year—but it wasn’t until after Hillary Clinton lost out on this opportunity that she became interested in joining President Trump’s administration instead!

Verma’s name had been floated as possible candidates for HHS secretary earlier in the election year.

While you may have heard that Verma is a health care consultant and not an official nominee for HHS secretary, she has experience working on Medicaid policy. In fact, she helped to craft the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which expanded coverage by more than 20 million people.

Verma also worked as an adviser to former President George W. Bush when he was governor of Texas and served as head of its Medicaid agency from 2001 to 2003—and has been praised for improving the state’s program over those years.

Now that we’ve covered some background information about Verma’s career path, let’s see what makes her such a good candidate for this position:

Verma founded SVC Inc., a health care consulting firm based in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Verma founded SVC Inc., a health care consulting firm based in Indianapolis, Indiana. The company has grown to employ more than 2,000 people and received more than $1.2 billion in contracts from the federal government since 2001.

CMS runs federal programs that give people access to health care services.

CMS runs federal programs that give people access to health care services. The agency consists of four parts:

• Medicare, which provides health insurance for seniors and disabled people

• Medicaid, which is a joint state-federal program that provides health coverage to low-income individuals

• The Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), also known as “Chip,” offers coverage to children whose families cannot afford it.

• Premium support funding allows states to provide premium assistance vouchers or advance payments toward the cost of qualified health plans on behalf of eligible individuals who are unable to pay their own premiums because they don’t have employer-sponsored coverage

Conclusion

The CMS is a federal agency that uses public money to provide health care services. The agency is led by an administrator who is a political appointee. The current head of CMS is Seema Verma. She was picked to lead by President Donald Trump. President Obama appointed her to be an adviser on health policy