Pay Raise Didn’t Lead More Docs to Participate in Medicaid
The temporary rate increase that the Affordable Care Act provided as means of encouraging more doctors to serve Medicaid patients did not work, according to two new studies published in the journal Health Affairs. According to the studies, the increase [...]
CMS: Not Done With Medicaid Work Requirements
Despite the ruling of a federal court that Kentucky’s new Medicaid work requirement violates federal law, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has not ruled out approving future requests from state governments to impose work requirements on Medicaid recipients. [...]
CMS Proposes Changes in Medicare Physician Payments
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has published a proposed regulation that it says …proposed historic changes that would increase the amount of time that doctors and other clinicians can spend with their patients by reducing the burden of [...]
HHS Chief Says 340B Changes are Coming
Health care providers and drug manufacturers should expect changes in the section 340B prescription drug discount program in the near future. That was the message conveyed by Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar during a recent conference held by [...]
New Policy Threatens Provider Medicaid Payments
Health care providers that fail to join the provider networks of Missouri Medicaid managed care plans will see their Medicaid payments cut 10 percent by the state under a new state policy. The purpose of the policy, according to the [...]
Energy and Commerce to Look at 340B Today
The Health Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a hearing today to review various proposals to alter the 340B prescription drug discount program. That program enables hospitals that care for especially large numbers of low-income patients [...]
Medicaid Managed Care Plans Suffer High Physician Turnover
The physician networks developed by Medicaid managed care plans suffer from a degree of turnover that threatens continuity of care for their members. While the number of Medicaid managed care plans using so-called narrow networks of providers declined by more [...]
GAO Recommends Changes in Oversight of 340B Program
The federal Government Accountability Office is recommending that the Department of Health and Human Services improve its oversight of the 340B prescription drug discount program. That program was created by Congress to help safety-net providers obtain discounts on prescription drugs [...]
NAUH Comments on Proposed Changes in Medicare Payments (Part 3 of 3)
In a letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the National Association of Urban Hospitals has offered extensive comments on CMS’s proposed regulation describing how it intends to pay hospitals for Medicare-covered services in FY 2019. NAUH offered [...]
NAUH Comments on Proposed Changes in Medicare Payments (Part 2 of 3)
In a letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the National Association of Urban Hospitals has offered extensive comments on CMS’s proposed regulation describing how it intends to pay hospitals for Medicare-covered services in FY 2019. NAUH offered [...]
