New CBO Report Supports Innovation Center’s Approach to Improving Care

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation is putting new lessons and recommendations into practice. The Innovation Center is charged with engaging doctors, hospitals, and other providers that want to try new approaches to keeping their patients healthy and out of the hospital. Here are just a few examples of how the Innovation Center has already adopted some of CBO’s recommendations.

Cracking Down on Insurance Companies, Protecting Consumers

Today, we’re using the rate review tool to protect consumers and crack down on unreasonably high rate increases. We’re announcing that Trustmark Life Insurance Company has unreasonably raised health insurance premiums in: Alabama, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wyoming – which would affect nearly 10,000 residents across these five States.