Tag: Chronic disease

• Health Law

  Suit Filed Against Feds Over CMS Risk Adjustment Formula

  • September 12, 2016
  • By Allen & Gooch

  On July 29, 2016, Minuteman Health Inc. filed suit in Massachusetts against the federal government, naming, as defendants, the US Department of Health and Human Services, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the heads of both agencies.  The suit alleges that the risk adjustment formula used to calculate which insurance companies have […]

• Health Law

  Access to Better Care Act to Reduce Deductibles for Managing Chronic Illness

  • August 15, 2016
  • By Allen & Gooch

  The Access to Better Care Act of 2016, H.R. 5652, is currently sitting in the Congressional Ways and Means Committee. Introduced by Representatives Diane Black (R-TN) and Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) on July 7, 2016, with bi-partisan and industry support, this bill seeks to change insurance coverage related to care of chronic disease. The bill seeks […]