Search Noteworthy News
Categories
- 340b
- accountable care organization
- Affordable Care Act
- Alternative payment models
- Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation
- CMMI
- deficit reduction
- health care reform
- MACPAC
- Medicaid
- Medicaid disproportionate share
- Medicaid DSH
- Medicare
- Medicare disproportionate share
- Medicare DSH
- Medicare regulations
- MedPAC
- NASH
- National Alliance of Safety-Net Hospitals
- private safety-net hospitals
- social determinants of health
- Uncategorized
- Value-based care
“Oh Say Can We See?”: Ways & Means Leaders Seek CMMI Transparency
/0 Comments/in Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, CMMI /by Joseph SteinbockThe chairman and ranking member of the House Ways and Means Committee have written to CMS administrator Seema Verma to ask her to address the lack of transparency in the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. In the bipartisan letter, committee chairman Richard Neal (D-MA) and ranking member Kevin Brady (R-TX) note that “…Congress established […]
Could Medicaid Buy-In Push Aside Medicare for All?
/0 Comments/in health care reform, Medicaid, private safety-net hospitals /by Joseph SteinbockOfficials in ten states are giving consideration, in one form or another, to permitting uninsured low-income residents to buy into their Medicaid programs. So while Washington considers the possibility of Medicare for all, the ten states – Nevada, New Mexico, California, Delaware, Oregon, Washington, Connecticut, Illinois, Minnesota, and Wisconsin – are tackling the many issues […]
NASH Comments Proposed Medicaid Managed Care Reg
/0 Comments/in Medicaid, NASH, National Alliance of Safety-Net Hospitals, private safety-net hospitals /by Joseph SteinbockThe National Alliance of Safety-Net Hospitals has submitted formal comments to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in response to CMS’s proposed changes in federal Medicaid managed care regulations. NASH’s letter addressed three aspects of the proposed regulation: payment rate ranges, directed Medicaid payments, and Medicaid pass-through payments. The overall theme underlying NASH’s […]
End Run Around Congress for Medicaid Block Grants?
/0 Comments/in Medicaid, NASH, National Alliance of Safety-Net Hospitals, private safety-net hospitals /by Joseph SteinbockThe Trump administration reportedly is considering introducing Medicaid block grants through regulations rather than legislation, according to published reports. Those reports explain that the administration may seek to offer states an opportunity to apply to the federal government to use Medicaid block grants by obtaining section 1115 Medicaid waivers, a commonly used tool for states […]
NASH Unveils 2019 Agenda
/0 Comments/in NASH, National Alliance of Safety-Net Hospitals /by Joseph SteinbockThe National Alliance of Safety-Net Hospitals has unveiled its public policy advocacy agenda for 2019. That agenda explains that NASH will: Address Medicare issues such as continuing threats to private safety-net hospitals’ Medicare DSH payments, audits of the Medicare cost report’s S-10 form, graduate medical education payments, potential cuts in bad debt, 340B, the participation […]