-
The waivers aim to reduce the risk of eligible families losing Medicaid coverage due to procedural errors.
-
The pandemic forced states to not kick anyone off the Medicaid rolls. That ended in April. But many of those booted from the program now scramble to retain their eligibility.
-
The federal government’s arcane process for medical coding is influencing which reconstructive surgery options are available, creating anxiety for breast cancer patients.
-
States must remove people from the program whose incomes are too high. Some recipients in Florida and other states that have started the process say they've been mistakenly removed.
-
Hospitals are facing mixed reviews regarding their efforts to comply with a federal requirement that they post information about prices related to nearly every health care service they provide.
-
A House bill would close one of a laundry list of oversight gaps revealed in a recent investigation of the system regulators use to ban fraudsters from billing government health programs.
-
The president outlined his plan in a guest essay in The New York Times, writing that Medicare is a "rock-solid guarantee that Americans have counted on to be there for them when they retire.”
-
A new rural hospital payment model shifts the focus of services away from overnight stays to outpatient and emergency care. Still, experts say the law needs to be amended to provide the right mix of care for rural communities.
-
Florida was among three states that declined to check for vaccination violations, instead leaving that process to CMS, which hired contractors. As a result, CMS said Florida was docked more than $1.2 million.
-
Drugmakers will be required to pay Medicare back for price increases that outpace inflation. The industry is expected to put up a fight over implementation.