Health Spending Slowed in 2017
According to the new annual report published by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Office of the Actuary, the U.S. healthcare spending growth had decreased from 2016 to 2017. [...]
Telehealth Not As Prominently Utilized in Medicare
In a report to Congress, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) stated that telehealth has the potential to provide valuable care without an increase in cost. Although promising, [...]
ACA Early Enrollment Drops Compared to 2017 Rates
In the first two weeks of early enrollment for the Affordable Care Act (ACA), a total of 1,176,232 people enrolled in a health plan for the 2019 fiscal year. Of [...]
States Given Flexibility in Insurance Markets with Waivers
On Monday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released a guidance that gave states more power to overhaul their own individual insurance markets through the 1332 waiver. The waiver [...]
Republicans Pressured to Keep Promise on Pre-Existing Conditions Coverage
According to GOP leaders, House and Senate Republicans stated that they want to retry their efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act in 2019. Despite their efforts to [...]
CMS Unveils New Initiative for Medicare User Experience
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid services (CMS) unveiled a new initiative to enhance the user experience for Medicare beneficiaries. The eMedicare initiative aims to give users a more personalized [...]
Health Groups Given $26.6M To Create Quality Measures
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services issued a funding agreement under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 to progress the current quality measures for the Quality [...]
Federal Judge Unsure of ACA Without the Tax Penalty
On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor stated his uncertainty on the validity of the individual mandate without holding a tax penalty for the mandate. In the 2017 tax overhaul, [...]
CMS Saved $314 Million from Medicare ACOs
Just after the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposed overhauling Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), the CMS shared on Thursday that Medicare ACOs had made $1.1 billion from 2017 in [...]