The risk-adjustment payments, worth $10.4 billion for 2017, are part of a program in the ACA to help balance the insurance markets when some insurers inevitably got stuck with costlier patients. (Photo: Shutterstock)
The Trump administration is preparing a regulation that would allow the resumption of billions of dollars in payments to health insurers in Obamacare.
The Office of Management and Budget was sent a rule on Wednesday from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services tied to the risk-adjustment program, which transfers money to insurers who take on sicker customers.
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