CMS Issues Rule To Prevent New Or Increased Medicaid Pass-Through Pay

CMS on Tuesday (Jan. 17) finished a rule to prevent increases in pass-through payments and new pass-through payments in states that use private managed care to deliver Medicaid benefits, rejecting calls by hospital and Medicaid managed care groups that the rule be put on hold so the incoming administration could review it. The newly finalized rule reinforces parts of the Medicaid managed care rule that were meant to phase-out those payments, the agency says. CMS says it rejected stakeholders' requests...