Author: Scott Welch
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 hospitals received a mix of A, B and C grades in the latest Hospital Safety Grade report from The Leapfrog Group, with Reno-area facilities generally scoring well while Southern Nevada hospitals posted a broader range of results. The biannual report evaluates hospitals on preventable harm, including medical errors, injuries and infections, using national safety data and up ...
Nevada now has multiple medical schools training future physicians — but that alone doesn’t solve the workforce problem. So why do we still have a physician shortage? It’s a fair question, and it reflects a common misunderstanding about how doctors are actually trained. Medical school is not the pipeline. Residency is. After graduating from medical ...
Boulder City (Nev.) Hospital converted from a critical access hospital to a rural emergency hospital May 1, ending inpatient admissions — including stays longer than 24 hours — while continuing to provide emergency and outpatient care. The transition includes the closure of inpatient units and a related mass layoff affecting 71 employees, according to the hospital’s notice ...
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 ...
In April, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services began enforcing the strongest hospital price transparency rules in the program’s history. The Calendar Year 2026 Outpatient Prospective Payment System final rule eliminates the “estimated allowed amount” placeholder that hospitals used to game disclosure, requires three new data elements based on 12 to 15 months of actual claims ...
When Gavin Newsom ran for California governor in 2018, his support for a state-run single-payer healthcare system was considered a risky move and earned him hefty labor endorsements. Today, leading Democrats in the wide-open race to succeed Newsom have embraced single-payer as a political necessity, an answer to voters fed up with rising premiums and other spiraling healthcare ...
State Obamacare marketplaces are starting to feel tremors from the GOP-controlled Congress’s ending of enhanced subsidies, as millions of Americans are dropping coverage. Experts and state officials say the impact varies from state to state, but enrollment decline is expected to grow this year and beyond, as policies from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and potential Trump ...
A new proposed rule from the Trump administration aims to make it easier for employers to offer coverage of fertility treatments, as part of larger efforts to expand access to fertility services including in-vitro fertilization. The new rule released Sunday from the Department of Labor would create a new exempted insurance benefit — in the same category as dental and vision benefit coverage— for treating infertility. Exempted benefits don’t have ...