Medicare & Medicaid
The reduction is linked to a federal court ruling that established annual deadline-based targets.
The proposed rule also updates home health payment rates for 2021.
A federal judge today sided with the Department of Health and Human Services and rejected providers' claims.
MA plan members want more information on telehealth, according to the J.D. Power U.S. Medicare Advantage study.
CMS Administrator Seema Verma promotes value-based payment models to address race, ethnic disparities and the social determinants.
It will be up to health plans and manufacturers to create the VBP arrangements.
The decision is separate from an HHS OCR final rule that ends nondiscrimination practices based on gender identity.
In 2016, the Obama administration redefined sex discrimination to include termination of pregnancy and gender identity.
The flexibility will permit insurers to prepay to enrollees a portion or all of the estimated MLR rebate for the 2019 MLR reporting year.
HHS is working on an additional allocation to distribute relief broadly to dentists.