States Expect Medicaid Enrollment, Spending to Rise in FY 2021
States expect to see their Medicaid enrollment and spending rise in FY 2021, driven by increases in unemployment resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic and maintenance-of-effort requirements in legislation enacted earlier this year. A Kaiser Family Foundation survey of state Medicaid [...]
HHS Webinar Thursday
The Department of Health and Human Services will hold a webinar on Thursday, October 22 at 1:00 (eastern) about the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ recent guidance explaining how it will implement an interim final rule that makes the [...]
Coronavirus Update for Tuesday, October 20
The following is the latest COVID-19 information from the federal government as of 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday, October 20. Provider Relief Fund HHS has updated its Provider Relief Fund FAQ with a new question that appears on page 46 and [...]
Number of Uninsured Children Rising
The number of uninsured children in the U.S. is rising. Since 2016, the number of uninsured children has risen by approximately 726,000 as the uninsured rate among children rose from 4.7 percent to 5.7 percent in 2019. An increase of [...]
Feds Penalizing Wrong Hospitals for Readmissions, Study Finds
Medicare’s hospital readmissions reduction program often penalizes the wrong hospitals for excessive readmissions. Or so concludes a new study published in the journal JAMA Cardiology. According to the study, …the percentage of hospitals that were incorrectly penalized was 10.1% for [...]
Coronavirus Update for Thursday, October 15
The following is the latest COVID-19 information from the federal government as of 3:00 p.m. on Thursday, October 15. Provider Relief Fund Yesterday HHS held a webinar to provide more detailed information to health care providers about its planned $20 [...]
Coronavirus Update for Wednesday, October 14
The following is the latest COVID-19 information from the federal government as of 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday, October 14. Reminder: HHS Webinar on Phase 3 General Distributions HHS will hold a webcast on Thursday, October 15 at 3:00 (eastern) to [...]
NASH Asks Congress to Help Preserve Federal COVID-19 Aid for Hospitals
Protect the COVID-19 aid the federal government has given to private safety-net hospitals, NASH has asked in a letter to Congress. The letter refers to changes in how the Department of Health and Human Services wants hospitals to calculate the [...]
Coronavirus Update for Friday, October 9
The following is the latest COVID-19 information from the federal government as of 2:15 p.m. on Friday, October 9. Provider Relief Fund Five questions in the Provider Relief Fund FAQ have been modified with updated answers; they can be found [...]
MedPAC Meets
Last week the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission met in Washington, D.C. to discuss a number of Medicare payment issues. Among the issues on MedPAC’s October agenda were: Medicare Advantage benchmark policy indirect medical education: current Medicare policy, concerns, and principles [...]
