CMS seeks to end duplicated Medicaid spending

The US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced action intended to preserve the core mission of the Medicaid program against a wider backdrop of wider cost-cutting under the regime of President Donald Trump.

CMS says that it wants to end spending that duplicates resources available through other federal and directly tied to healthcare services.

According to CMS, mounting expenditures such as covering housekeeping for people who are not eligible for Medicaid or high-speed internet for rural healthcare providers, distracts from the core mission of Medicaid, and in some instances, serves as an overly-creative financing mechanism to skirt state budget responsibilities.