Insurance companies struggle with long-term care … Missouri’s Medicaid program lost out on $27M, audit says … B. Smith testifies on Alzheimer’s at Senate hearing … NLRB playing...
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Mar 24, 2015
OMB begins review of Medicaid managed care … Medicaid expansion has led to surge in diabetes diagnosis…Statins can stop for terminal patients, researchers advise
Proposed House budget would slash Medicaid by $913 billion
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John Hall
Mar 19, 2015
Few have ever heard a federal budget referred to as a “moral document,” as one GOP budget committee lawmaker described it on Tuesday. That’s when the House unveiled a 10-year budget whose...
NAACP: Medicaid expansion would negate lost subsidies in NC
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John Hall
Mar 04, 2015
The NAACP is pushing hard for lawmakers to approve Medicaid expansion efforts in North Carolina to give half a million state residents an alternative should they lose private insurance subsidized by the...
Medicaid IT systems need quality check: GAO
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John Hall
Mar 04, 2015
A new report to Congress casts significant doubts on the integrity and effectiveness of information systems many state Medicaid programs use to process claims, and CMS has agreed with it its recommendation...
Medicaid expansion plans fade in several states
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John Hall
Feb 25, 2015
Several so-called “red states” are leaning toward or have outright abandoned plans to allow expansion of their Medicaid programs, bucking a nationwide groundswell of program enrollment under...
Medicaid expansion leading HCBS programs to rethink strategy: Researchers
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John Hall
Feb 19, 2015
Researchers on Wednesday proposed ways to better identify the most susceptible nursing home candidates in order to ease the expected burden on programs designed to keep the chronically ill and frail elderly...
Federal judge orders the return of $90 million in Medicaid credits
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John Hall
Feb 18, 2015
The state of Georgia may be the mouse that roared after convincing a federal court last week to force the government to return a bungled $90 million credit, even after ruling Health & Human Services had...
Swelling Medicaid rolls have states, providers worried
By
John Hall
Feb 18, 2015
California’s Medicaid-eligible rolls are swelling as part of a nationwide expansion of the program under the Affordable Care Act, a finding that should give other states’ Medicaid agencies...
Efforts to stop improper Medicaid payouts for people with private insurance need to be intensified or the program could lose millions of dollars as it continues to expand, the Government Accountability...