Medicaid
President Obama today in his fiscal year 2017 budget request to Congress proposed nearly $420 billion in reductions to Medicare payments to providers.
Patients and communities across the country depend on the high-quality care that hospitals provide every day. The significant cuts proposed in today's budget would jeopardize hospitals' ability to keep the promise of maintaining access to vital health care services.
Each year, the American Hospital Association (AHA) collects aggregate information on the payments and costs associated with care delivered to beneficiaries of Medicare and Medicaid by U.S. hospitals. The data used to generate these numbers come from the AHA’s Annual Survey of Hospitals, which is…
Three states expanded Medicaid eligibility in 2015, and many states improved their Medicaid enrollment and renewal processes and coordination with Health Insurance Marketplaces, according to the latest annual survey by the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured and Georgetown…
House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) late last night unveiled a $1.1 trillion spending package to fund the government for the remainder of fiscal year 2016.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Oct. 29 issued a final rule with comment period requiring states to submit plans to monitor access to care for Medicaid beneficiaries, and establishing new review procedures for proposed rate changes in the Medicaid fee-for-service program.