Medicare & Medicaid
By law, $43 billion in Medicaid DHS funding would be cut through 2025.
Home health agencies could see decreases of $80 million in 2017 and $950 million in 2019.
CMS Innovation Center to hold behavioral health summit in September to get feedback for new models.
Federal reports in recent years from Medicare advisory board, as well as GAO and OIG, have raised concerns about 340B program.
CMS said new physician fee schedule rules would encourage fairer competition between hospitals and physician practices and align payment.
A subset of Medicare Advantage plans are designed for people who require at least 90 days of skilled services from nursing homes or long-term care institutions.
Alaskan Senator Lisa Murkowski is worried about effects on Indian health care system if Congress were to accept GOP health plan to replace the ACA.
The pharmaceutical industry could see windfall profits from a little-noticed tweak to the insurance market tucked into the Trump administration's draft executive order on drug prices.
State projects the program will reduce premiums by 20 percent in 2018, and more consumers may have coverage.
In most cases, PCMHs resulted in cost reduction, quality improvement and utilization, although in some areas results were mixed.