Medicare/Medicaid

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Medicare/Medicaid

CMS Medicaid Waiver Allows Massachusetts to Expand Coverage to Incarcerated

May 1, 2024
CMS’ 1115 waiver will also allow Massachusetts to include short-term post-hospitalization housing as an allowable health-related social needs service

Medicare/Medicaid

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Medicare/Medicaid

CMS Approves New York’s Medicaid Waiver to Address SDOH

Jan. 9, 2024
One of the Empire State’s goals is to make significant movement toward value-based payment strategies, multi-payer alignment, and population health accountability
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Policy & Value-Based Care

HHS Names Its First Chief Competition Officer

Jan. 8, 2024
On Jan. 8, HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra announced that he had named an HHS senior official to a newly created role intended to promote competition and lower costs
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Medicare/Medicaid

Tennessee IPA Leader Explains Importance of Value-Based Care Partner

Jan. 7, 2024
Highlands Physicians Inc.’s Victoria Blanken describes her 1,400-physician IPA’s work with Equality Health on Medicaid managed care in Tennessee
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Policy & Value-Based Care

Medicare Advantage: the Debate Rolls Forward

Jan. 4, 2024
Recent publications, reports, and discussions highlight the intense scrutiny facing the Medicare Advantage program, as it becomes Medicare’s majoritarian form of care management...
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Medicare/Medicaid

Survey Report: CalAIM Already Making a Difference

Jan. 2, 2024
52 percent of implementers say that overall access to services has gotten somewhat or much better as a result of CalAIM’s implementation