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FILE - In this April 30, 2020 file photo Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Seema Verma, speaks about protecting seniors, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. The head of the Medicare and Medicaid programs failed to properly manage more than $6 million in communications and outreach contracts, giving broad authority over federal employees to a Republican media strategist she worked with before joining the Trump administration, a government watchdog said in a report to be released Thursday. Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and other agency leaders did not administer the contracts “in accordance with federal requirements,” according to the inspector general at the Department of Health and Human Services. CMS is part of the department. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Watchdog report faults Medicare agency’s contract management

By RICHARD LARDNER - Associated Press

Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Seema Verma speaks during a roundtable with President Donald Trump about America's seniors, in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Monday, June 15, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Medicare data: Blacks likelier to be hospitalized for COVID

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 27, 2020, file photo Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Seema Verma walks to the Rose Garden to attend a briefing with President Donald Trump about the coronavirus in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. Federal health authorities have received reports of nearly 26,000 nursing home residents dying from COVID-19, according to materials prepared for the nation's governors. Verma says states should use “extreme caution” before reopening nursing homes to visitors. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Nearly 26,000 COVID deaths in nursing homes spur inspections

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR and CANDICE CHOI - Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks during a press briefing with the coronavirus task force, at the White House, Tuesday, March 17, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

To keep seniors safe at home, Medicare expands telemedicine

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 22, 2017 file photo, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Seema Verma listen at right as President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. The Trump administration has a Medicaid deal for states: more control over health care spending on certain low-income residents if they agree to a limit on how much the feds kick in. It's unclear how many states would be interested in such a trade-off under a complex Medicaid block grant proposal unveiled Thursday by Seema Verma, head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Tricky trade-offs for states in Trump’s new Medicaid offer

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2019, file photo, Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma speaks during a news conference in Washington. A government watchdog will review costly outside contracts to provide publicity for Verma, whose agency oversees health insurance programs covering more than 100 million Americans. The Health and Human Services inspector general’s office said Friday, April 5, it will examine several publicity contracts, following a request by congressional Democrats (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf, File)

Watchdog to examine Medicare chief’s publicity spending

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR - Associated Press

Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, speaks during a news conference in Newark, N.J. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) ** FILE **

HHS pushes for digital health records in key programs by 2020

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this March 22, 2017, file photo President Donald Trump , left, and Texas State Sen. Dawn Buckingham, right, listen as Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Seema Verma speaks during a meeting on women in healthcare in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

White House works on backup plan for Obamacare

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Seema Verma, administrator at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said the changes will save taxpayers $690 million over 10 years. (Associated Press)

Trump admin forming ‘contingency plans’ if lawsuit kills Obamacare

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

FILE - In this June 14, 2011, file photo, various prescription drugs on the automated pharmacy assembly line at Medco Health Solutions in Willingboro, N.J. The Trump administration is unveiling complex policy changes to Medicare’s prescription drug benefit that would affect beneficiaries’ costs over the next few years. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Proposed changes on Medicare drugs create winners and losers

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR - Associated Press

In this Nov. 29, 2017, file photo, Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, speaks during a news conference in Newark, N.J. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) ** FILE **

Trump administration lets Wisconsin condition Medicaid benefits on work requirements

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, speaks during a news conference in Newark, N.J. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) ** FILE **

Key Obamacare rates to drop slightly in 2019

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this Nov. 29, 2017, file photo, Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, speaks during a news conference in Newark, N.J. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) ** FILE **

Obamacare enjoys resurgence under Donald Trump

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

FILE - In this March 22, 2017, file photo, President Donald Trump , left, and Texas State Sen. Dawn Buckingham, right, listen as Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Seema Verma speaks during a meeting on women in healthcare in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. Medicare is modernizing its website to make it more useful for beneficiaries, particularly younger ones already going online for information from insurers, hospitals and doctors. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Medicare upgrades its website ahead of sign-up season

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR - Associated Press

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma speaks to reporters Thursday, March 29, 2018, during a visit to the Center for Medical Interoperability in Nashville. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Senate panel: CMS must detail its Medicaid anti-fraud campaign

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

FILE - In this March 22, 2017 file photo, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Seema Verma listen at right as President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. The Trump administration says it's offering a path for states that want to seek work requirements for Medicaid recipients, and that's a major policy shift toward low-income people. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Trump admin. launches Medicaid scorecard

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Medicare will require hospitals to post prices online

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR - Associated Press

In this file photo, Seema Verma, the head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, signs paperwork at the state Capitol in Little Rock, Ark., on Monday, March 5, 2018, that gives the state permission to require that thousands of people on its Medicaid expansion seek ways to work or volunteer. In March 2018, Ms. Verma rejected the state of Idaho's proposals for a workaround of Obamacare regulations. (AP Photo/Kelly P. Kissel)

Idaho finds silver lining in Verma’s rejection letter

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

US to Idaho: ‘State-based’ health plans don’t pass muster

By REBECCA BOONE - Associated Press

Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, walks to speak with reporters outside the White House in Washington, Thursday, April 13, 2017, after President Donald Trump signed H.J. Res. 43, which allows states to withhold federal funds from facilities that provide abortion services. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) ** FILE **

Trump admin. signals states can tie Medicaid to work

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times