“The CMS issued a final rule Tuesday to resume paying $10.4 billion dollars in risk-adjustment payments to insurance companies with plans on the individual market…”
“The rule was expected after the White House’s Office of Management and Budget posted on its site it had received a rule on the risk payments last week.”
“HHS skipped the proposed rule stage and won’t take comments on this decision, saying the normal rulemaking process would have been too slow a process to restart the program, according to the CMS…” Read the full article here.
Source: CMS restarts risk payments, will pay out $10 billion to insurers – By Virgil Dickson, July 24, 2018. Modern Heathcare.
