Kudos to the OIG! That would be the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services. Although OIG is better known for its fraud-fighting persona, it also has a broader mission of making government programs work better. And with last month’s report, “High Rates of Prior Authorization Denials by Some […]
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The Georgetown University Center for Children and Families submitted the following comments to HHS regarding the proposed managed care rule (“Medicaid Program; Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Managed Care Access, Finance, and Quality; Proposed Rule-CMS-2439-P”). Comments on Managed Care Rule
Editor’s Note: Since this post was published, CCF submitted formal comments on both the Medicaid Access and Managed Care proposed rules. Transparency has long been underrated as a way of improving access to care in Medicaid. This may be about to change. Two proposed rules that CMS published on May 3 use transparency—making information about […]
There’s a new box on the Center for Medicaid & CHIP Services (CMCS) organization chart! It’s the Managed Care Group, one of (now) eight Groups within CMCS that manage the Medicaid program for the federal government. You’re probably thinking, “So what? A federal bureaucracy gets a new Group. What difference will that make for children […]
Editor’s Note: Since this post was published, CCF submitted formal comments on the Managed Care proposed rule. Earlier this month, CMS proposed changes to regulations that govern the operation of Medicaid managed care in 41 states. The main purpose of the proposals is to improve access to care (by, among other things, beefing up network adequacy […]
