Medicaid
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released a fact sheet for state and local governments seeking Medicare, Medicaid or Children’s Health Insurance Program payment for inpatient and outpatient care provided at hospital alternative care sites during the COVID-19 emergency.
State Medicaid programs are reporting an uptick in enrollment compared with their fiscal year 2020 projections, due in part to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued new guidance to states to allow temporary COVID-19-related modifications in provider payment methodologies and capitation rates under Medicaid managed care plans. Please see the CMS information bulletin to state Medicaid agencies for details.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently issued new Frequently Asked Questions to aid the Medicaid program and Children’s Health Insurance Program in their response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
A panel of 4 experts discussed federal policy emerging from Congress and the Administration under COVID-19 focusing on rural health priorities and took questions from the audience. They reviewed emergency funding, Medicare and Medicaid payment improvements, telehealth, regulatory relief, 340B drug…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services approved a state of Washington-developed emergency demonstration project to adjust its Medicaid program temporarily in order to combat COVID-19.
The Oklahoma Health Care Authority asked the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to approve a Healthy Adult Opportunity demonstration waiver for its new low-income adult Medicaid population.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services granted a Section 1135 Medicaid waiver for the COVID-19 emergency to Utah, bringing the national total to 50.
The Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission published a pair of reports. In its March report to Congress, MACPAC, a key congressional advisor on the Medicaid program, updated its annual analyses of disproportionate share hospitals, including national estimates of the number of these…
he Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services says it has granted Section 1135 Medicaid waivers to an additional seven states.