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Poverty experts are questioning if HHS is doing enough to stop states from wrongly removing people from the program. Estimates show up to 30 million could be dropped as states finish reviewing their rolls.

LeadingAge Florida said it submitted comments to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services warning the proposal would have “unintended consequences” because of the shortage of nurses.

The Florida Health Care Association wrote to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services warning that most facilities could not meet the “arbitrary and unfunded mandates."

Medicare is expanding access to mental health counselors and marriage and family therapists come Jan. 1. But the belief that seniors who suffer from mental health problems should just grin and bear it remains a troubling barrier to care.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services are cracking down on deceitful marketing strategies during open enrollment. Here are tips on how to avoid getting scammed.

Enrollees in the federal program for older people and people with certain disabilities can make changes to their health and drug plans. The decision can be complicated, but here are some points to keep in mind.

Software sifts through millions of medical records to match patients with similar diagnoses and characteristics and predicts what kind of care an individual will need. New rules will ensure humans are part of the process.

Two dozen states, from Florida to Washington, have passed laws that allow hospital systems to merge into monopolies, disregarding FTC warnings that such mergers can become difficult to control and may decrease quality of care.

The computer issues affected people in 29 states and the District of Columbia and likely included a significant number of children who should have been eligible even if their parents or caregivers were not.

For the first time, Medicare will negotiate the prices of 10 common medicines. Dr. Meena Seshamani, with the Center for Medicare at CMS, and Brian Brito, VP of pharmacy at CareMax, talk about the process.