CMS Administrator Pledges Reduction in Regulations with Provider Needs in Mind

​Recounting her husband's care after he collapsed from a cardiac event at an airport, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma writes in a CMS blog post that the healthcare system is really a “community of professionals who want to do good. " Verma argues that regulations issued in recent years failed to take into account “actual pain points that doctors feel" and have “tilted more towards creating burdens than towards serving as a safeguard for the programs.