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A high-ranking Senate Democrat is probing whether CMS Administrator Seema Verma violated her ethics agreement.

From Kaiser Health News: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma will recuse herself from the agency's decision-making on whether to approve Kentucky’s Medicaid waiver because she helped develop the proposal in her former job as a health policy consultant.

The healthcare industry responded positively to Verma's confirmation.

The Senate agreed on Thursday to end the debate over the nomination of Seema Verma as the head of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and set up a final confirmation vote that will likely take place early next week.

The Senate Finance Committee took a preliminary vote this morning to advance Seema Verma’s nomination as administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

During her confirmation hearing, the potential head of the CMS, Seema Verma, faced only one question about her ties with former Indiana Governor Mike Pence.

Seema Verma, President Donald Trump’s nominee as the new administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, was short on specifics as she faced questions this morning from a Senate committee about the future of those federal health programs.

With a hearing on her appointment as the new head of the CMS on Thursday, Democrats are raising ethics questions about Seema Verma’s consulting firm.