Price 'Not Aware' Of Stock Choices During HIP Act Consideration, He Tells Senators
Executive Summary
HHS Secretary Nominee Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., told members of a key Senate health panel that he was "not aware" of purchases his broker made of stocks in health-care companies including Zimmer Biomet Holdings Inc., shortly after introducing The HIP Act to delay a CMS orthopedics bundled payment program. The appointee also signaled his intentions 'not to pull the rug out' on millions of Americans' insurance coverage in any Affordable Care Act replacement plan he works on.
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