{"id":10608,"date":"2018-06-05T09:50:17","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T13:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=10608"},"modified":"2018-06-05T09:50:17","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T13:50:17","slug":"verma-unveils-state-medicaid-scorecard-but-refuses-to-judge-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=10608","title":{"rendered":"Verma Unveils State Medicaid Scorecard But Refuses To Judge Efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Phil Galewitz for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration Monday released\u00a0a\u00a0Medicaid \u201cscorecard\u201d\u00a0intended to show how the nation\u2019s largest health program is performing. But the nation\u2019s top Medicaid official didn\u2019t want to draw any conclusions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is about bringing a level of transparency and accountability to the Medicaid program that we have never had before,\u201d said Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services. <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/verma-unveils-state-medicaid-scorecard-but-refuses-to-judge-efforts\/\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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