CMS Administrator Nomination Slowed Over Texas Medicaid Spat

Sen. John Cornyn is delaying quick confirmation of President Joe Biden’s pick to oversee Medicare and Medicaid, according to the senator’s spokesperson.

Cornyn (R-Texas) placed a hold on the nomination of Chiquita Brooks-LaSure to be administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in response to the Biden administration’s decision to revoke the 10-year extension of Texas’s Medicaid waiver, approved at the end of the Trump administration.

Biden’s HHS Pulls Back 10-Year Extension of Texas Medicaid Plan

Cornyn has asked Brooks-LaSure and the Biden administration to explain their plans for Texas’s Medicaid waiver, set to expire next year. The ...