Idaho Proceeds With State Health Plans, Won't Use New CMS Waiver Path

Idaho will move forward with its controversial state-based health plans without submitting a formal waiver to CMS, eschewing CMS' new offer to consider 1332 waivers that include health plans that don't strictly comply with the Affordable Care Act, Idaho Insurance Commissioner Dean Cameron told Inside Health Policy . If the federal government does not approve the state's latest version of the plans, which he expects will be ready by the end of the year, Idaho officials plan to settle the...