Medicare & Medicaid
The group also adopted policies on other emerging healthcare topics, such as extending CMS' locum tenens 60-day limit.
At least 35,000 active exchange participants live in the counties projected to be without coverage in 2018, CMS says.
High cost, lack of affordability most common factors that lead consumers to cancel health insurance coverage, two reports say.
Failure to conduct minimal documentation reviews left the incentive program open to abuse of federal funds, agency says.
FHG and its hospitalists intentionally upcoded evaluation and management codes to the highest code levels in billing Medicare, DOJ says.
Deadline to submit proposed measures for consideration is June 30, 2017.
Senators also pressed Price on matters relating to the American Health Care Act, the GOP bid to repeal and replace the ACA.
Pre-existing condition coverage proved life-changing, yet many are still priced out of coverage and view ACHA with disdain.
Reimbursement has not caught up to technology innovations, expert says.
Medicaid covered 45 percent of children and 16 percent of adults in small towns and rural areas in 2015, higher than in metropolitan areas.