Medicaid

Three hundred two members of the House of Representatives yesterday urged House leadership to delay for at least two years the Medicaid disproportionate share hospital cuts scheduled to take effect Oct. 1.
The White House Office of Management and Budget yesterday published a notice seeking comment on a potential change in the annual inflation factor that the Census Bureau uses to measure poverty.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today issued a final rule that eliminates 2014 regulatory text allowing states to reassign Medicaid payments to third parties on behalf of certain providers.
AHA urges the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) to investigate thoroughly Centene’s proposed acquisition of WellCare because it threatens to reduce competition in delivery of Medicaid Managed Care and Medicare Advantage (“MA”) services to tens of millions of consumers across…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today encouraged governors and state Medicaid directors to partner with the agency to better integrate care for beneficiaries eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid.
The Montana legislature last week passed legislation funding Medicaid coverage for low-income adults for six more years.
The Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission yesterday recommended that Congress change the definition of Medicaid shortfall to exclude costs and payments for all Medicaid-eligible patients for whom Medicaid is not the primary payer.  
Idaho Gov. Brad Little this week signed legislation adding work requirements to the state’s plan to expand Medicaid coverage to low-income adults.
The Trump administration has appealed a federal judge’s recent ruling that blocked Medicaid work requirements in Kentucky and Arkansas.
Reps. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., and Pete Olson, R-Texas, are asking their colleagues to join them in urging House leadership to delay for at least two years the Medicaid disproportionate share hospital (DSH) cuts scheduled to take effect Oct. 1.