States Make Medicaid Changes That Facilitate Medicare Provider Bonuses

CMS will unveil additional state Medicaid delivery and payment reforms before the Obama administration leaves office, and some of those reforms will help doctors receive Medicare bonuses in two years, CMS Deputy Administrator and Medicaid Director Victoria Wachino said Wednesday (Oct. 26). “Over the next few months, we’re moving forward with a number of new states in developing new delivery system reform models in close collaboration with them,” Wachino said at an America’s Health Insurance Plans conference. The upcoming state...