Ways & Means Members Press CMS On Co-Op Funding, Oversight

Three Republican members of the House Ways & Means Committee are prodding CMS for more answers on how it funds and oversees the consumer-operated and -oriented plans created by the Affordable Care Act, after an HHS Office of Inspector General report questioned the co-ops' profitability and revealed that CMS put four co-ops on corrective action programs. Ways & Means oversight subcommittee chair Rep. Peter Roskam (IL), health subcommittee chair Rep. Kevin Brady (TX) and Rep. Adrian Smith (NE)...