New CMS report fails to please critics of Medicaid waiver process

Modern Healthcare (complimentary online subscription): A new report to Congress on the transparency of Medicaid demonstration waivers is doing little to quell concerns that the CMS needs to beef up its oversight of the policy experiments.Experts say the document fails fully explain how the federal government decides whether to approve or reject a state's application. “Given the significance of several demonstrations approved to date, this omission is striking,” said Sara Rosenbaum, a professor of health policy at George Washington University.

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