As healthcare benefit costs continue to worry employers, health systems and employer groups are becoming more sophisticated in their approach to contracting directly. Direct-to-employer contracting deals from health systems allows both entities to both understand and gain more control…
When association health plans and short-term plans federal rules are fully phased in, about 4 million people will choose an association health plan and another 2 are predicted to be in a short-term plan of 12-months duration.
CMS announced that will be heightening audits to “confirm that Medicaid beneficiaries are correctly identified as expansion or pre-expansion enrollees”. States receive higher federal match rates of around 90% for expansion enrollees, while the match rate can be as low as 50% for pre-expansion enrollees.
According to Modern Healthcare, CMS wants to lunch “an experiment that allows doctors in Medicare Advantage plans to qualify as participating in an alternative payment model (APM).
Federal Communications Chairman Ajit Pai recently requested an increase in the annual funding cap for the Rural Health Care Program by $171 million. The Rural Health Care Program funds the essential technical infrastructure for telecommunications companies to work with rural healthcare providers and their telehealth efforts and the transmission of electronic health records in rural America.
The Federal Communication Commission (FCC) announced that they will be increasing the funding cap of the Rural Health Care Program from $400 million by $171 million to $571 million.
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The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has estimated that premiums for benchmark plans will rise about 7% a year between 2019 and 2028. This is coupled with the 15% estimated rise to take place from 2018-2019. Because of this the CBO is also estimating that an additional 6 million people will join association health plans and short term health plans in the next 5 years
Physicians and Hospitals experienced over $68 billion in Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement shortfalls. The cost of care is out growing the reimbursement from Medicare and Medicaid. Yet few physicians are leaving their contract new survey shows.
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