Medicaid Managed Care: Improved Oversight Needed Of Payment Rates For Long-Term Services & Supports, GAO-17-145

On January 9, 2017, the Federal Government Accountability Office (GAO) published this report to Congress regarding the need for improved oversight of Medicaid managed care payment rates for long-term services and supports (LTSS). The report provides information about states’ payment structures and other financial incentives; and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) oversight of states’ payment structures. the report covers how selected states structured the financial incentives in their MLTSS programs, and CMS’s policies and procedures for overseeing states’ payment structures for MLTSS programs . . .