Medicare & Medicaid
Centene will retain IlliniCare's Medicare-Medicaid Alignment Initiative business and its YouthCare foster care contract, set for February.
This model is part of a strategy to use the redesign of primary care as a platform to drive broader healthcare delivery system reform.
There is often a disconnect between what health plans provide and what patients want, according to Keith Roberts of Change Healthcare.
Week 3 of open enrollment sees 26% fewer signups than in 2017, when there were two additional days to enroll.
For a typical 50-year-old, buying into Medicare would cost about $2,500 less than buying a gold-level plan on the insurance exchanges.
The number of consumers selecting such plans represent an increase from the 76% who did so last year.
The rule will accelerate anti-competitive behavior among health insurers and stymie innovations in value-based care delivery, the groups say.
The final rule for hospitals, which goes into effect in 2021, includes the ability for CMS to impose civil monetary penalties of $300 per day.
Since open enrollment for 2020 plans began two weeks ago, there are 244,183 fewer ACA enrollees.
A proposed rule seeks to stop the numerous schemes known to CMS that states have used to circumvent federal statute.