Stakeholders Worry Trump’s CMS May Reverse Course On MFAR Rule

Some stakeholders and lobbyists worry the Trump administration will issue a controversial Medicaid supplemental pay rule before leaving office -- despite CMS Administrator Seema Verma’s statement in September that CMS was scrapping the rule -- as Verma recently said CMS was slowing down its work on the rule in order to get it right but still stood behind the rule’s goals. "And then there is MFAR,” Verma said at the National Medicaid Directors Association meeting on Nov. 11, according to...