CMS Administrator Seema Verma promotes state waivers to Affordable Care Act

Healthcare Finance: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services wants to see more states take advantage of 1332 waivers to the Affordable Care Act, CMS Administrator Seema Verma told stakeholders Tuesday morning in Washington D.C.

The ACA includes Section 1332 to allow states to waive certain ACA regulations to implement new healthcare programs. Eight states have done so, but all but one waiver has been used for a reinsurance program to help pay for high risk claims.

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