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February 13, 2012 at 04:42 PM
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) could see big changes in private health insurance programs spending in federal fiscal year 2013.
The budget for one major private health insurance program could fall more than 98% as spending on others soars.
The Obama administration talks about CMS private programs funding in the 2013 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) budget proposal.
Fiscal year 2013 starts Oct. 1.
The private health insurance programs budget pays for CMS to set up and run programs created by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA).
CMS is not the only HHS agency implementing PPACA, and HHS is not the only federal department implementing PPACA.
HHS has a separate health insurance reform implementation fund. The budget there increased to $411 million this year, from $208 million in 2011. The budget could fall back to $344 million in the coming year.
The Employee Benefits Services Administration, an arm of the U.S. Labor Department, talks about its PPACA projects in its 2013 budget proposal.
The Internal Revenue Service, an arm of the U.S. Treasury Department that would be responsible for enforcing PPACA tax subsidy and penalty provisions, mentions PPACA only briefly in its budget outline.
CMS is the HHS agency that has budget line items for the biggest, best-known PPACA efforts.
