Hatch, Grassley Ask Slavitt To Explain After OIG Finds Subsidies Possibly Inaccurate

Top Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee pressed Acting CMS Administrator Andy Slavitt for details on Affordable Care Act subsidies that may have been inaccurately disbursed in early 2014, after an HHS Inspector General report said the agency lacked internal controls to ensure $2.8 billion in advance premium tax credits and cost-sharing reductions were correctly spent. Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), the committee chairman, and former chair Chuck Grassley (R-IA, sent Slavitt a letter Wednesday (June 17) asking whether CMS has...