The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is inviting state Medicaid directors to partner with them to test new approaches to better serve those who are dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid.

More than $300 billion is spent annually by CMS and states to care for the dual-eligibles, and many of the 12 million of those beneficiaries have multiple chronic conditions, and often have socioeconomic risk factors that can lead to poor outcomes. Could the CMS initiative suggest cost-cutting, administrative burden reductions, or true innovation? RACmonitor national correspondent J. Paul Spencer, a senior health consultant for DoctorsManagement, reports our lead story during this edition of the long-running Monitor Mondays live broadcast.

Other segments to appear on the broadcast include:

• Court Report: Famed whistleblower attorney Mary Inman reports on the guilty verdict handed down Thursday by a federal grand jury in Boston that found Insys Therapeutics founder John Kapoor and four other executives guilty of criminal racketeering in bribing physicians to prescribe powerful opioids to patients who didn’t need them. Inman is a partner in the London office of Constantine Cannon.
  
  
• 2020 IPPS Proposed Rule: Social determinants of health (SdoH) are back in the news, since CMS is proposing to make homelessness a CC (complication and comorbidity) for the purposes of Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) coding. Does the CMS action signal that SDoH are a growing concern in the nation’s healthcare landscape? Continuing our reporting on this hot topic is nationally recognized SDoH authority and author Ellen Fink-Samnick.
  
  
• Hot Topics: Monitor Mondays senior correspondent Nancy Beckley, president and CEO of Nancy Beckley and Associates, will report on all the latest hot topics and will also conduct the Monitor Mondays Listener Survey. 
  
  
• Risky Business: Healthcare attorney David Glaser returns to Monitor Mondays with his popular segment, in which he reports on problematic issues facing providers.
  
  
• Monday Rounds: Ronald Hirsch, MD, vice president of R1 RCM, makes his Monday Rounds with another installment of his popular segment.