Medicare & Medicaid
Medicaid expansion a success, health insurance exchanges have struggled to provide affordable plans with adequate networks.
CMS is proposing to reduce clinical quality measure reporting requirements for hospitals that have implemented electronic health records.
Decreased federal funding, staffing demands, risk-based contracts drive negative outlook amidst political uncertainty, ratings firm says.
Shortened open enrollment period in final rule to increase consumer choice and encourage stability in health insurance market for 2018.
Providers, researchers, hospital leaders are expected to use the reports to help raise awareness on health disparities, develop interventions.
Researchers concluded that when states expanded eligibility they saw larger health care expenditures covered by federal funding.
CMS releases figures comparing Medicaid and CHIP enrollment from October to pre-Affordable Care Act.
Kaiser Family Foundation poll found the 53 percent of people reported that they or someone in their household has a pre-existing condition.
Lowest performing hospitals before passage of the Affordable Care Act showed biggest improvement after being penalized, researchers say.
CMS is also testing new Person Centered Community Care, or P3C, model for dually-eligible individuals who are at least 21 and have disabilities that impair their mobility, requiring nursing home care.