Insurers Say New Medicaid Regs Will Overburden MCOs, States

  • Jul 07, 2023

    In comments submitted to CMS about two new proposals aimed at improving the Medicaid program, health insurers and their lobbying groups told the agency in no uncertain terms that implementing the regulations could require more resources than health plans currently have — especially since they’re also trying to navigate the recently resumed Medicaid redetermination process. 

    The regulations in question are both notices of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) that CMS introduced in May — the “Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Managed Care Access, Finance, and Quality” NPRM, and the “Ensuring Access to Medicaid Services” NPRM. Together, the two proposals represent the first significant regulatory update to Medicaid managed care since 2020. 

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  • Leslie Small

    Leslie has been working in journalism since 2009 and reporting on the health care industry since 2014. She has covered the many ups and downs of the Affordable Care Act exchanges, the failed health insurer mega-mergers, and hundreds of other storylines spanning subjects such as Medicaid managed care, Medicare Advantage, employer-sponsored insurance, and prescription drug coverage. As the managing editor of Health Plan Weekly and Radar on Drug Benefits, she writes and edits for both publications while overseeing a small team of reporters who also focus on the managed care sector. Before joining AIS Health, she was a senior editor for the e-newsletter Fierce Health Payer, and she started her career as a copy editor at multiple local newspapers. She graduated with a dual degree in journalism and political science from Penn State University.

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