January 2016

CMS announces Innovation Center funding for Accountable Health Communities to test models addressing beneficiaries’ social needs.

November 2015

OIG Release 2016 Workplan; Includes Reviews of Hospital Provider-Based Status, Medicaid Provider Taxes and Medicare Payment for 340B Discounted Drugs

November 2015

CMS releases final Medicaid Equal Access Rule (with comment period) requiring regular state reviews of whether payments are sufficient to ensure beneficiary access

October 2015

CMS, California reach conceptual agreement on renewal of the Bridge to Reform Medicaid waiver, extending the delivery system reform incentive program and establishing a new global payment mechanism for the uninsured