Washington: Indian-American Seema Verma has been sworn-in as the head of a key healthcare agency in the Trump administration. Verma was sworn in on Tuesday by US Vice President Mike Pence as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which are part of the Department of Health and Human Services, PBS NewsHour reported.
The $1 trillion agency oversees health insurance programmes for everyone from nursing home residents to newborns. “President Donald Trump has chosen one of the leading experts in America on state-based healthcare solutions to lead this important agency,” Vice President Pence said at the swearing-in ceremony at the White House. IANS
