Medicaid AWP Reform Planned By House Energy & Commerce Panel
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
“We are going to attempt to legislate in this area in the next Congress,” Committee Chairman Barton (R-Texas) says at a hearing on Medicaid reimbursement. Barton cites Medicare’s average sales price system and the methods employed by Texas as potential models for reform.
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