Medicare & Medicaid
News articles in this section include actions by federal regulators like the CMS and HHS, as well as information on Medicare and state Medicaid coverage and benefits.
For much of this year, progressive lawmakers, labor unions and advocacy groups have pushed Gov. Gavin Newsom and the California Legislature to shore up the state’s healthcare system against federal cuts by taxing corporations more. After all, proponents argued, Republicans in Washington, D.C. cut into healthcare programs for California’s most vulnerable residents to pay for ...
The Nevada Health Authority announced Friday a temporary pause on new state licenses for hospice and home-health providers and a moratorium on new enrollments for Nevada Medicaid until state officials validate and confirm the legitimacy of current providers. Upon federal approval, this moratorium will be in effect for at least six months. Fraud in hospice and home-health services has garnered recent national ...
The state constitution requires a new budget to be adopted by June 15, leaving little time for Newsom and legislative leaders to resolve many billions of dollars in differences, particularly those involving health and social welfare services.
There are 2 million fewer children enrolled in either Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program compared to January 2025, according to a new report. The Children and Families at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy operates a state-by-state enrollment tracker that identified the declines through April, and warned that enrollment drop-offs at this scale should ...
The Trump administration has proposed a “sweeping crackdown” on Medicaid payments that implements, and goes beyond, the reductions directed by last year’s sweeping One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Under a proposed rule, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services takes aim at state-directed payments, aiming to bring Medicaid payments more in line with Medicare. The ...
At a White House event, Vance said the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services would withhold $1.3 billion in Medicaid funding from the state of California, as officials have "not taken fraud very seriously."
The US Supreme Court on Monday rejected a series of appeals from several of the nation’s largest drugmakers challenging a program that is expected to save taxpayers and the federal government billions of dollars by requiring the companies to negotiate with Medicare on the prices for some of their most popular drugs. The court’s decision to deny ...
Gov. Joe Lombardo on Thursday applauded the creation of a new federal task force to combat Medicaid provider fraud and talked about steps being taken at the state level. Lombardo outlined the state’s efforts to fight fraud, waste, and abuse, including the creation of the Nevada’s first Medicaid Inspector General within the Nevada Health Authority. ...
Nevada next year will begin losing out on hundreds of millions of dollars in supplemental Medicaid payments to the state’s hospitals, thanks to President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”. That is just one of the impacts administrators warned lawmakers the state will have to reckon with next year when setting the state’s next ...
The Trump administration has issued a six-month moratorium on hospice and home health agencies enrolling in Medicare as part of its efforts to combat fraud. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said in an announcement on Wednesday morning that the “data-driven” decision targets a key source of fraud activity. It follows a similar announcement ...