MACPAC Meets
Last week the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission met in Washington, D.C. The agency performs policy and data analysis and offers recommendations to Congress, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the states. During two days of [...]
NAUH Urges House to Reject American Health Care Act
The National Association of Urban Hospitals has asked members of the House of Representatives to vote against the American Health Care Act. In a message to all House members, NAUH cited the increase in the number of uninsured the bill [...]
Health Reform Helps Hospitals in Medicaid Expansion States
The Affordable Care Act’s enhancement of access to health insurance, whether through Medicaid expansion or the subsidization of insurance premiums for working-class and some middle-class Americans, has improved the financial health of hospitals. Especially hospitals in Medicaid expansion states. According [...]
Medicaid Work Requirements
Both Congress and a number of states have discussed introducing work requirements into their Medicaid programs. Such a proposal was part of the American Health Care Act, a number of governors and state legislators have discussed work requirements as a [...]
Medicaid Per Capita Caps Explained
In a new report, the Commonwealth Fund looks at Medicaid per capita caps, an idea that has been discussed for years, that was part of the as-yet unsuccessful American Health Care Act, and a proposal that is almost certain to [...]
New MACPAC Reports
The Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission has released several new reports, including: a look at how states exercise flexibility in their individual Medicaid programs; methodologies for setting Medicaid per capita caps; a review of how states are addressing [...]
New MACPAC Study Evaluates Medicaid, Medicare Payments
Medicaid payments to hospitals are comparable to or even higher than Medicare payments. Or at least they are once supplemental Medicaid payments are included. So concludes a new study by the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission, a non-partisan [...]
Medical Homes and High-Need Patients
With five percent of patients accounting for 50 percent of health care costs, such high-need patients are the subject of increasing attention as health care providers search for better ways to serve them at less cost. Such patients are especially [...]
MedPAC Meets
The Medicare Payment Advisory Committee met last week in Washington, D.C. Among the issues on MedPAC's agenda were: using premium support in Medicare regional variation in Medicare Part A, Part B, and Part D spending and service use measuring low-value [...]
To Require Work or Not to Require Work
That is the question policy-makers are asking as they consider imposing work requirements on healthy Medicaid participants. In recent years a number of states have attempted to establish such a requirement, only to have their requests to do so rejected [...]
