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Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

CMS Issues Final Rule on Medicaid and CHIP Managed Care Access, Finance, and Quality

On April 22, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a Final Rule (CMS-2439-F), effective July 9, 2024, aimed at advancing healthcare access,...more

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CMS Finalizes Major Reforms to Medicaid, Part 2: Medicaid Managed Care Reg

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Medicaid Regs Part 2! Last week, Regs & Eggs took a deep dive into the Ensuring Access to Medicaid Services final reg, one of two regs that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released to add new requirements...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Prenatal Vaccines in Medicaid and CHIP: Coverage, Reimbursement and State Policy Solutions

Editor’s Note: In a new white paper funded by Pfizer, Inc., Manatt Health discusses the current landscape of Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) coverage and reimbursement for prenatal vaccines, informed...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

[Webinar] Prenatal Vaccines in Medicaid & CHIP: Current State Payment Rates and Strategies to Increase Access - June 8th, 2:00 pm...

Prenatal vaccines provide important protection for pregnant women and newborns against communicable diseases such as whooping cough and influenza. However, fewer than one out of four pregnant women receives all federally...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Prenatal Vaccines in Medicaid and CHIP: Coverage, Reimbursement, and State Policy Solutions to Increase Access

Prenatal vaccines—those administered during a pregnancy—provide crucial protections to pregnant women and/or newborns against communicable diseases such as whooping cough and influenza. Additional prenatal vaccines are in...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Medicaid and the Law

Medicaid and the LawFoley Hoag LLP CMS Approves Two New Medicaid Waivers to Expand Coverage, Provide Flexibilities

On September 28, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued approval letters for Section 1115 Medicaid demonstration applications previously submitted by Oregon and Massachusetts. Section 1115 waivers...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Medicaid and the Law

CMS Releases the New Medicaid Managed Care Final Rule

On November 9, 2020, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) announced it finalized the Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (“CHIP”) Managed Care final rule (“2020 final rule”). According to CMS,...more

Baker Donelson

Medicaid Forecast: Slower Enrollment Growth and Higher Spending Growth for FY 2017 – 2018: Results from a 50-State Medicaid Budget...

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On October 19, Kaiser Family Foundation and Health Management Associates hosted a joint briefing to release their 17th Annual 50-State Medicaid Budget Survey for state fiscal years (FY) 2017 and 2018. The survey highlights...more

Epstein Becker & Green

New Audits and Penalties on Medicaid Plans and Providers Related to Encounter Data in Value-Based Payment Models

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For value-based payments, encounter data[1] provides valuable information in much the same way that claims data does for fee-for-service arrangements. With the growing prevalence of value-based payments, especially in the...more

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Texas OIG Turns Over New Leaf: MCOs Must Turn Attention to SIUs

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More active SIUs may mean more scrutiny of Medicaid providers - The Texas Office of Inspector General (OIG) has just completed its first full year of reforms under a new Inspector General. 2017 may reveal whether these...more

Akerman LLP - Health Law Rx

Are Recommendations of the White House Task Force on Behavioral Health Parity Trumped by the Election?

Recently the White House Behavioral Health Parity Task Force issued guidance on the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (Parity Law). The Task Force could not have known, though,...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Manatt on Health Reform: Weekly Highlights - June 2016#3

CMS targets short-term insurance plans in efforts to stabilize the individual market risk pool; Illinois mandates Medicaid coverage for opioid addiction treatment; and Michigan seeks to restructure State Medicaid financing....more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

States Take Aim At Health Insurance Providers Fee In New Litigation

Three states—Kansas, Louisiana and Texas—filed a complaint in federal court on October 22, 2015 challenging the constitutionality and legality of the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance providers fee. The health...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Thirteen Years of the Same Rules and Now Big Proposed Changes to the Regulation of Medicaid Managed Care Plans

On May 25, 2015, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) published a newly proposed rule that would change the way the agency regulates Medicaid managed care plans, the first regulation of its kind since 2002. ...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Proposed Managed Care Rules Leave State Obligations for CHIP Largely Unchanged

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) proposed rule (“Rule”) that updates Medicaid managed care regulations to reflect changes in the usage of managed care delivery systems, leaves state obligations largely...more

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Medicaid Managed Care Proposed Rules: The Intersection of Private Insurance and Government Programs

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Approximately a quarter of all Medicaid expenditures is spent on the more than half of all beneficiaries (approximately 39 million by 2011 figures cited in the 2014 MACPAC Report) currently accessing part or all of their...more

Epstein Becker & Green

Mental Health Parity Requirements and Medicaid Plans: CMS Seeks Comment on Proposed Rule

On April 10, 2015, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) published in the Federal Register a proposed rule (“Proposed Rule”) implementing the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction...more

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CMS Issues Proposed Rule That Would Extend Provisions of Mental Health Parity

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On April 6, 2015, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released a proposed rule that would extend provisions of the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 (the “Mental Health Parity Act”) to...more

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