Medicare & Medicaid
In a newly created Twitter account, Verma pledges to "undo the damage" of the Affordable Care Act.
States' policies differ about who, what to cover in Medicaid; Republicans' effort to shrink federal Medicaid spending could lock in the differences.
Texas reduced the rate of unnecessary early delivery by as much as 14 percent, led to increase in the length of pregnancies by nearly a week.
The bipartisan, 17-member commission recommends freezing skilled nursing facility payment rates for two years while the payment system is revised.
The new research indicates that 65 percent of patients saw a physician who had received an industry payment over the previous 12 months.
Three months into 2017 performance year, clinicians still in the dark about compliance, MGMA says.
CMS will work with states in their initiatives to design their own programs, they said.
Alaska has applied for a Section 1332 waiver to implement a high-risk pool/state-operated reinsurance program.
The former consultant largely skirted questions during her confirmation hearing about her opinions on Medicaid and Medicare reform.
In the rush to legislate, some facts surrounding the bill have gotten, if not lost, a little buried.