NASH Comments on Proposed Medicare Regulation (Part 2 of 3)
The National Alliance of Safety-Net Hospitals has submitted formal comments to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in response to the latter’s proposed hospital payment plan for FY 2020. Responding to the proposed inpatient prospective payment system published by [...]
NASH Comments on Proposed Medicare Regulation (Part 1 of 3)
The National Alliance of Safety-Net Hospitals has submitted formal comments to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in response to the latter’s proposed hospital payment plan for FY 2020. Responding to the proposed inpatient prospective payment system published by [...]
ACA Tied to Reduced Disparities in Cancer Care
Improved access to health insurance has led to reduced racial disparities in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. As reported by the Washington Post, According to researchers involved in the racial-disparity study, before the ACA went into effect, African Americans [...]
CMS Seeks Help With Reducing Administrative and Regulatory Burdens
Reducing administrative and regulatory burdens is the subject of a new request for information issued last week by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. In the RFI, CMS explains that it is especially interested in “…innovative ideas that broaden [...]
Administration Ramps Up Scrutiny of Immigrants’ Use of Public Benefits
Immigrants’ sponsors could be more likely to be held financially responsible for the cost of public benefits those immigrants receive under a new memorandum issued by the White House. The requirement itself is not new; the purpose of the memorandum [...]
Medicaid Expansion Helps Pregnant Women and Their Babies
An intuitive assumption now has evidence to support it: Medicaid expansion has improved the health of pregnant women and their babies. According to a new study from the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute’s Center for Children and Families, …states that [...]
Proposed Immigration Rule Discouraging Medicaid Enrollment
A proposal by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is discouraging participation in Medicaid and other government safety-net programs. A proposed Homeland Security regulation would establish new criteria for determining whether individuals seeking admission into the U.S. might eventually become [...]
Medicaid Waiver Process Often Lacks Transparency, GAO Finds
States’ applications for federal Medicaid waivers often lack transparency, according to a new report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office. According to the GAO, the chief problem with the transparency of state applications for Medicaid waivers arises when states either [...]
Medicaid DSH Delay Wins Bipartisan Support
More than 300 members of the U.S. House have joined a letter to House leadership urging a delay in Affordable Care Act-mandated cuts in Medicaid disproportionate share payments (Medicaid DSH). The bipartisan letter notes that hospitals that receive Medicaid DSH [...]
More Medicaid Matching Funds for Only Partial Medicaid Expansion?
The federal government is considering providing an unusual amount of federal Medicaid matching funding for only partial state Medicaid expansion. At least that’s what Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services administrator Seema Verma told a health care conference in Georgia [...]
