Document Type

Report

Publication Date

3-2008

Keywords

Maternal and Child Health

Abstract

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is currently engaged in a policy initiative that should serve as a reminder of the power of a single federal administrative agency to change the course of national health policy. Through a virtual deluge of regulations and policy issuances, CMS has sought to redirect the course of Medicaid; in a number of respects, the course that CMS has sought to chart for the program is not only poorly thought out and ill-considered, but would actually propel the program in a direction directly contrary to both longstanding federal statutory provisions and recent decisions by Congress to reject precisely the same direction when presented by CMS as a statutory proposal.

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