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General Manager and Senior Vice President, Oracle Life Sciences; Administrator, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (2017-2021); Founder & CEO, SVC Inc.
Seema Verma is a national health policy expert known for her meaningful and successful implementation of new programs for Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), where she served as Administrator from 2017-2021. Verma’s engaging speeches are punctuated by her admirable intellect and relevant pulse on all things healthcare-related.
CMS Quality Conference: Meaningful Measures 2.0
Federation of American Hospitals Public Policy Conference: Patient-Centric Solutions
HLTH Conference: A Better Vision for Healthcare
In this insightful and motivating presentation, Seema Verma draws from her experiences rising to top-level positions at esteemed organizations to empower other women to be the best leaders they can be. Verma offers advice to aspiring leaders using tactical and anecdotal examples of her successes, specifically the strategic initiatives she introduced and executed during her tenure as Administrator of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Prior to CMS, Verma was the founder and CEO of the health policy consulting firm SVC, Inc. Named one of the nation’s Top 25 Women Leaders by Modern Healthcare in 2019, Verma is perfectly positioned to give advice with the inspiring success to support it.
In this encompassing presentation, Seema Verma dives deeply into the past, present, and future of the United States healthcare system. Specifically, Verma gives an outlook for the future including her educated perspective on the sustainability of the healthcare system, problems for policymakers, and what the future looks like for patients and providers.
In this informative presentation, Seema Verma shares a tailored version of her technical expertise on the following subjects:
These topics are inspected through the lens of a federal agency with specific callouts to some of the forward-thinking implementations that are widely viewed as some of the Trump Administration’s best successes.
In this fascinating presentation, Seema Verma offers her inside perspective from the White House Coronavirus Task Force and addresses the implications Covid-19 forced upon the nation’s health systems. As the longest tenured CMS Administrator, Verma has the unique position of understanding the virus’s effects on long term care, telehealth, health data, value-based care, and importantly, the health workforce.
One of the most experienced and respected leaders in the healthcare industry, Seema Verma is the Executive Vice President and General Manager of Oracle Health and Life Sciences. She leads the charge to bridge the gap between clinical research and clinical care to improve patient outcomes and care delivery. She also serves on the Board of Directors for Lifestance and the Board of Councilors for the University of Southern California. She is an advisor to Tapestry Health and a member of the Eskenazi Community Board and the Nashville Health Care Council.
Verma previously served as a board advisor for Monogram Health and as a senior advisor to private equity firms TPG and Cressey & Co. She also served on the Cressey Distinguished Executive Committee and the Boards of Wellsky, Lumeris, Lyric Health, and ShiftKey. She provided advisory services to various early-stage and large public companies, including national payers and technology companies focusing on strategy, value creation, and operations.
In 2017, Verma was nominated by President Trump to be administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and was confirmed by the United States Senate on a bipartisan basis. She went on to become one of the longest-serving CMS administrators in history. In this role, she oversaw a $1.4 trillion dollar budget, coverage for 145 million beneficiaries, more than 6,000 employees, and over 100,000 contractors. She was also responsible for federal operations of Medicare, Medicaid, Health Insurance Exchanges, the Centers for Medicare/Medicaid Innovation, and all federal quality and safety regulations. During her tenure, she developed and implemented the administration’s healthcare strategic plan across all programs to advance value-based care, interoperability, drug pricing, telehealth care, remote care, and the COVID response. CMS had numerous accomplishments during her tenure, including delivering reduced premiums across Part D, Medicare Advantage, and the individual insurance market.
Verma is a seasoned executive leader with deep, holistic expertise across the healthcare system. She has a strong track record of collaborative leadership, developing partnerships, motivating talent, and delivering results. Verma was named as Modern Healthcare’s 2019 number one most influential person in healthcare. Her healthcare-related articles have been published in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Health Affairs, Modern Healthcare, Newsweek, CNN, USA Today, and STAT.
Seema was such an important speaker for us. She added a unique perspective and is so well-respected and her content was very relevant… It was a very positive experience for the audience. The entire room was captivated… Seema captivated the crowd like few people have before.
Synergy Summit, 2021
