Medicare & Medicaid
Mitchell Katz vows to eliminate the budget gap with a culture shift to focus on billing, add profitable services and reduce unnecessary testing.
Healthcare and legal experts say if work requirement policies persist many low-income individuals with chronic conditions would lose insurance.
Agency said in new Rural Health Strategy that it aims to improve access to care, increase quality and cuts costs by reducing readmissions and unnecessary ER visits.
Kentucky Indiana and Arkansas have also received ACA waivers for work requirements under policies adopted by the Trump Administration in November.
Cuts could destabilize current specialty care referral networks serving children in need of specialized care.
Both states are struggling over whether or not to broaden Medicaid programs to insure more citizens.
Finance execs at the big payers all say the Medicare Advantage market will only get bigger, and more lucrative, as baby boomers retire and CMS adjusts payment rules.
Lower court's decision about disproportionate share hospital payments undermines the ability HHS has to administer Medicare reimbursement, Azar says.
The insurer signed up 250,000 new Medicare Advantage members during the first quarter.
The data provides detailed information about services to beneficiaries enrolled in a MA managed plan.