CMS Proposes To Rescind Medicaid FFS Access Monitoring Regs

CMS on Thursday (July 11) proposed to rescind Medicaid fee-for-service access monitoring requirements and come up with a uniform way to analyze Medicaid access across managed care, fee-for-service and home and community-based waiver programs. Abbi Coursolle, senior attorney with the National Health Law Program, said the administration should leave the existing access monitoring scheme in place until it has a concrete alternative, rather than rescind the regulations and leave a gap while it comes up with something new. However, the...