Medicare & Medicaid
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt told the Senate Finance Committee Wednesday that the agency would consider delaying the implementation of MACRA, the industry-overhauling bi-partisan legislation set to go into effect January 1 of next year.
Americans in their 80s and 90s are not the ones amassing the largest medical bills to hold off death, according to a new analysis that challenges a widely held belief about the costs of end-of-life care.
California voters will be asked to weigh in this November on a hospital financing measure called Proposition 52 that is so politically and financially complicated that they might be tempted to avoid it altogether.
New estimates from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services project that health spending growth will outpace the expected average growth in gross domestic product for almost the entire next decade.
A new study by the Brookings Institution claims physicians would earn more in Medicare reimbursements under the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System mandated by MACRA legislation than with the alternative payment model.
Touting the benefits of the Affordable Care Act to cover Americans who otherwise would not have healthcare plans, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Tuesday said the median deductible for marketplace coverage in 2016 is $850, down from $900 in 2015.
Many babies born to mothers who are covered by Medicaid are automatically eligible for that coverage during the first year of their lives. In a handful of states, the same is true for babies born to women covered by the Children's Health Insurance Program. Yet, this smart approach is routinely undermined by another federal policy that requires babies' eligibility be reevaluated on their first birthday. Although they're likely still eligible for coverage, many of these toddlers fall through the cracks.
The measure preserving the State Health Insurance Assistance Program, known as SHIP, is part of a massive spending bill for federal health, education and labor programs, approved by the Republican majority of the House appropriations subcommittee that oversees those departments.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has proposed changes to how it pays doctors and other providers for primary care with a new focus on care management and behavioral health.
The hospital groups urge CMS to address what they say are several significant underlying methodological problems with the program.