Senator Grassley Seeks More Details on Donors to New Medicare Chief’s Charity
August 13, 2010 | Read Time: 1 minute
Sen. Charles Grassley is demanding that Donald Berwick, the newly installed head of the federal agency that oversees Medicare, disclose information about all donors to his nonprofit medical organization, NPR says.
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement, which Dr. Berwick founded, lists major donors on its Web site, among them insurance giants such as the BlueCross BlueShield Association, Aetna, and Kaiser Permanente, which do business with Medicare.
Mr. Grassley, an Iowa Republican, said failing to reveal all donors to the institute creates “the potential for conflicts arising from donors” to the institute. The White House says Dr. Berwick is in compliance with ethics rules.
