CMS issues new COVID-19 guidance on Medicaid managed care plans
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently issued new guidance to states to allow temporary COVID-19-related modifications in provider payment methodologies and capitation rates under Medicaid managed care plans.
States would be allowed to use directed payments to increase provider payments within managed care arrangements. The AHA, in its advocacy with CMS, requested many of the additional flexibilities regarding provider payment and capitation rates found in this new guidance to states.
Read more details in this AHA Special Bulletin.
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