by Jessica Casebolt | Apr 28, 2023 | Payers, Tea Leaves
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed new reporting rules for Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Programs health plans that would, among other things, set national standards for appointment wait times and require disclosure of...
by Jessica Casebolt | Apr 27, 2023 | Payers, Tea Leaves
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is strengthening enforcement of its hospital transparency rule by imposing stricter timelines and levying fines more quickly, the agency announced Wednesday. Hospital compliance with the requirement that they publicly...
by Jessica Casebolt | Apr 24, 2023 | Payers, Tea Leaves
Reps. Adrian Smith and Debbie Dingell introduced a new bill that would attempt to lower Medicare spending by moving more hospital care into the home. The legislation would create a new Medicare benefit allowing certain beneficiaries not eligible for Medicaid to have a...
by Jessica Casebolt | Apr 21, 2023 | Payers, Tea Leaves
Express Scripts will increase reimbursement for independent rural pharmacies, whose ranks havecontinued to dwindle over the past decade. Express Scripts, the pharmacy benefit manager of insurer Cigna, plans to pay more to rural pharmacies that aren’t affiliated with a...
by Jessica Casebolt | Apr 17, 2023 | Payers, Tea Leaves
Humana will invest $40 million in expanding affordable housing options, the company said Thursday. The new funding will bring Humana’s total investment in affordable housing to $90 million. The investments aim to address shortages of low-cost housing units in...
by Jessica Casebolt | Apr 6, 2023 | Payers, Tea Leaves
Medicaid covers one-fifth of Americans who seek behavioral health services, but what the program pays psychiatrists varies widely across the country, according to a new study. Additionally, psychiatrists received 81 percent of the pay that they’d get from Medicare for...
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