by Girish Anand | Jun 5, 2018 | CHIP, CMS, Medicaid
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has released what is being called a “Medicaid & CHIP Scorecard” that attempts to compare the timeliness and quality of medical care of the two programs state by state, but a major problem is that...
by Girish Anand | May 16, 2018 | ACA, CMS, Medicaid, Obamacare
At a health care symposium this week, Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), reaffirmed her agency’s commitment to keeping Medicaid available to its recipients without any lifetime limits or caps. Her statement...
by Girish Anand | May 8, 2018 | CMS
Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the agency’s first Rural Health Strategy intended to provide a proactive approach on healthcare issues to ensure that the nearly one in five individuals who live in rural America have access to...
by Girish Anand | May 7, 2018 | CMS, Medicaid, Medicare
Seema Verna, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), today rejected a request by the state of Kansas to cap an individual’s Medicaid benefits at three years. In a letter to Kansas officials, Verna noted that only if Medicaid...
by Girish Anand | Apr 4, 2018 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, CMS, Health Care Reform, Obamacare
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has released its final report on the 2018 open enrollment period for Affordable Care Act (ACA, or Obamacare) policies, touting the cost effectiveness of the new approach. In 2017, CMS spent $100 million in...
by Girish Anand | Mar 19, 2018 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, BLS, CMS, Health Care Reform
The price of health care in the United States shot up 2.2 percent in February compared to 1.6 percent overall annual growth in 2016 and 2017, according to statistics gathered and released by health care consultancy Altarum. The lowest annual growth rate — 1.1...
