Medicare & Medicaid
Eligible clinicians can report quality information for only one patient using just one measure but they have to do it in 2017.
The department shared details about the initiative but redacted names of key participants.
Defendants used the stolen funds to buy lavish multi-million dollar homes, expensive handbags and luxury travel.
Week five saw exactly 823,180 choosing plans, including 271,207 new consumers, CMS data shows.
Due in large part to an aging baby boomer population, Medicare and Medicaid account for nearly 60 percent of top insurer revenues and 20 percent of their plan membership.
DOJ spokesperson said penalty could have been much higher if hospital had not fully cooperated with their year-plus investigation.
In the end, the program has shifted money away from physicians who treated sicker, poorer patients to pay for bonuses that rewarded practices treating richer, healthier populations.
Transportation to doctor's appointments and the pharmacy focuses on making sure MA members get needed care, medication for chronic conditions.
CMS Administrator Seema Verma said the agency will announce new voluntary payment bundles soon.
Layoffs for workers in Delaware follow hundreds in Phoenix earlier this month after loss of TriCare contract.