CMS Proposes Preventing New And Increased Pass-Through Pay In Medicaid Managed Care

CMS on Friday (Nov. 18) proposed preventing increases in pass-through payments and new pass-through payments in states that use private managed care to deliver Medicaid benefits. Congressional Republicans this week asked the Obama administration to freeze regulations so the Trump administration could review them, and Medicaid Health Plans of America President and CEO Jeff Myers criticized CMS for not heeding the GOP's request. "Since the House and Senate majority asked that the departments not release any new regulation, and [the...