Policy and Legislation
The unpopular proposal to collapse payment rates for certain office visit services could hurt physicians, other healthcare professionals that treat the sickest patients, the groups said.
The work will focus on challenges including behavioral health, women and infant care, substance use disorder and avoidable emergency department visits.
There are potentially substantial financial benefits to be gleaned from sociodemographic adjustment for safety net hospitals.
Democratic representatives called the loss of health coverage the "perverse result that even the proponents of these new requirements should oppose."
It's the first time that CMS has formally outlined how states should calculate budget neutrality for demonstration projects in order to strengthen fiscal accountability.
The organization aligned 17 health systems to work toward decreasing Medicaid costs and improving care.
The amendment would give funding to the Department of Health and Human Services to require drug pricing in direct-to-consumer advertising.
The pharma industry is skating to where they know the puck is going on drug price transformation, HHS Secretary Alex Azar says.
Bipartisan Policy Center recommends CMS give MA plans flexibility in targeting supplemental benefits to members with chronic care conditions.
Teva Pharmaceuticals is marketing the first approved generic epinephrine auto-injector for the emergency treatment of allergic reactions.