HHS Budget Seeks to Give Feds More Power Over Medicaid MCOs

Tucked into the 174-page Fiscal Year 2023 Budget in Brief document recently issued by HHS is a proposal seemingly aimed at giving the federal government more flexibility and power to sanction out-of-compliance Medicaid managed care plans.

“Currently, CMS has inadequate financial oversight and compliance tools in Medicaid managed care, lacking maximum flexibility to disallow and defer individual payments or partial payments associated with contracts with managed care organizations, prepaid inpatient health plans, and prepaid ambulatory health plans,” stated HHS in its budget proposal released on March 28.

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Leslie Small

Leslie Small

Leslie has been reporting and editing in various journalism roles for nearly a decade. Most recently, she was the senior editor of FierceHealthPayer, an e-newsletter covering the health insurance industry. A graduate of Penn State University, she previously served in editing roles at newspapers in Pennsylvania, Virginia and Colorado.

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