Susan Morse
Both are in at-risk arrangements for Medicaid, Medicare Advantage and the Affordable Care Act markets.
CMS Administrator Seema Verma suggests Idaho's state-based plans could be modified to be sold as short-term health insurance.
Director of Pharmacy Plan Services says Azar is out-of-touch as the discounts are unfair to healthier members of the plan who are footing the bill.
The deal is the latest proposed consolidation to help control cost and stay competitive against Amazon, other players.
But while she agreed claims data should be available to patients, the devil's in the details.
The government-wide MyHealthEData initiative is led by the White House Office of American Innovation.
Enacting both legislative provisions could lower premiums by up to 27 percent in 2019, the letter said.
The move promotes transparency and lowers out-of-pocket costs for consumers, praised HHS Secretary Alex Azar.
Health IT data from its Epic medical records system and risk scores from Optum went into the enterprise data warehouse.
The funding is to develop partnerships with health systems, clinicians and others to improve measures in the quality payment program of MACRA.