Medicare & Medicaid
Effective immediately, Cigna may resume marketing of its Medicare Advantage-prescription drug and Medicare Part D plans.
Per capita healthcare spending in Medicaid expansion and non-expansion states is similar, new CMS report says.
The AHCA would raise employment and economic activity at first, but lower them in the long run, due to reductions in support for health insurance.
The CBO estimated that 23 million more would become uninsured if the bill were to become law.
Beginning this year, clinicians participating in MIPS have to report on six quality measures to be eligible for a bonus payment.
The group also adopted policies on other emerging healthcare topics, such as extending CMS' locum tenens 60-day limit.
At least 35,000 active exchange participants live in the counties projected to be without coverage in 2018, CMS says.
High cost, lack of affordability most common factors that lead consumers to cancel health insurance coverage, two reports say.
Failure to conduct minimal documentation reviews left the incentive program open to abuse of federal funds, agency says.
FHG and its hospitalists intentionally upcoded evaluation and management codes to the highest code levels in billing Medicare, DOJ says.