Administrator Seema Verma addresses attendees at the Summit

Seema Verma, Administrator of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, delivered the opening plenary address at the 2017 LAN Fall Summit: Aligning for Action held on October 30th at the Marriott Gateway in Arlington, VA. She spoke to over 600 attendees from across the nation about the importance of taking action to implement alternative payment models. The Administrator also spoke to some of the new administration’s top priorities in healthcare and offered support to the LAN’s focus in the shift away from a fee-for-service system that rewards volume instead of quality. You can read the transcript of her remarks here.