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Feds To Waive Penalties For Some Who Signed Up Late For Medicare

Medicare has not sent notice of the temporary penalty waiver to enrollees in exchanges run by the states. But Covered California plans to notify its members who are about to turn 65 — or already have — sometime this summer.

CMS Chief To Sit Out Watershed Decision On Medicaid Work Mandate In Kentucky

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma will recuse herself from the agency’s decision-making on whether to approve Kentucky’s Medicaid waiver because she helped develop the proposal in her former job as a health policy consultant.