CMS Kills Final Rule on Medicaid Cost Limits for Government-Operated Services

OPEN MINDS Weekly News Wire Strategic Health Care News State governments have been researching whether or not a final rule that imposed cost limits for Medicaid services provided by units of state government went into effect. The rule, published by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on May 29, 2007, changed the definition of a unit of government for the purposes of intergovernmental transfers (IGT); changed how states conducted IGTs; and limited reimbursements for Medicaid services provided by units of government to the cost of services. It had a target implementation date of July 30, 2007, but on . . .