Medicare & Medicaid
Hundreds of millions of dollars in reimbursement are at stake; $3-4 billion from 2005 to 2013.
The February 19 deadline does not give ACOs enough time to consider the upside risk they'll have to take in the overhauled program, NAACOS says.
The results also reveal that beneficiaries are mostly non-compliant, with just 14 percent always following through on recommended actions.
CMS wants to make the rule actionable so that consumers and physicians consider price, creating comparison shopping that creates provider competition.
Large company health insurance is typically less expensive than small group and individually purchased health plans.
Traylor has been named acting director for the Center for Medicaid and CHIP services.
Also, physicians are not incentivized to prescribe more expensive prescriptions, Community Oncology Alliance says.
Also in 2017, hospitals provided $38.4 billion in uncompensated care, the AHA said.
As former Maine Health and Human Services Commissioner, Mayhew opposed Medicaid expansion.
The model has resulted in just over a 3 percent reduction in costs, and analysts forecast this will increase as the model matures.