Seema Verma, the head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said the agency is making Medicare Advantage encounter data available to researchers. She made the announcement this week at the Health Datapalooza conference this week.
CHIP has had a dramatic effect in lower income states like Alabama, where the childhood uninsured rate dropped from 20 percent in 1997 to under 3 percent in 2015.
MedCity News was at the Vive conference and spoke with executives who shared their insights for the healthcare industry.
Here are some of the major health issues that are certain to come up in 2017.
For years, Obama administration officials talked about how the health law’s online marketplaces would offer a seamless shopping experience for consumers looking for health coverage. But that’s turned out to be an empty promise for many low-income people who went to healthcare.gov, the federal enrollment portal, and were deemed eligible for Medicaid or the Children’s […]