Senators on the Appropriations Committee on Sunday released a stopgap funding bill to avert a government shutdown by Oct. 1 and temporarily block a White House proposal that would fundamentally change how the federal government awards and manages grants.
Policy intervention alone won't modernize Medicaid. Sustainable home-based care depends on the operational systems that connect oversight, payments, and participant support.
As noninvasive tests for assessing liver disease continue to evolve, it can be tempting to assume that technologies designed to assess the same clinical conditions are evaluated the same way by health plans.
The Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) final rule's base pay increase is slightly below what was proposed earlier this year, though the agency said it now expects the rule's changes to bring hospital payments hundreds of millions of dollars higher than its prior projection.