Susan Morse
Superintendent Maria Vullo wants guardrails to ensure promised synergies result in cost savings for consumers.
ACOs in upside-only models need more than two years and the shared savings rate put forward by The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, lawmakers and stakeholders say.
The health reimbursement arrangements could be used to satisfy the employer mandate to offer coverage.
Anthem set a policy to deny coverage if it is determined through the discharge diagnosis that the visit was unnecessary.
States will have the ability to allow individuals to use ACA subsidies when buying short-term limited duration plans.
Open enrollment, which begins November 1, will not be negatively impacted, CMS says.
Juniper
Hospitals and medical groups with limited security resources still have leadership options in managed care providers and virtual CISOs.
But only 16 percent of insurance executives would invest the savings into innovation.
Repeal would end the ACA's most popular provision, to cover those with preexisting conditions.
Health and hygiene company RB said consumers who purchase certain products at Walmart will receive a free medical video visit.