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.
Nearly 40% of health-care providers treating Medicare patients will have their payments docked 1.5% this year because they didn’t submit data on patients’ health to the government, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said.
Embedded in President Obama’s budget request to Congress is a paradox.
While all states saw major increases in coverage under ObamaCare, the biggest differences were seen in states that accepted federal dollars to expand eligibility for Medicaid, according to new figures from the Urban Institute’s Health Reform Monitoring Survey. The drop in the uninsured rate was about 30 percent in the 31 states that did not ...
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers quarreled Monday over Medicare, taxes and almost $40 billion in unrequested money for overseas war-fighting as House and Senate negotiators kicked off work on a Republican budget blueprint for next year and beyond. “A budget is more than just a set of numbers. It is a reflection of our priorities, of our ...
On Thursday, CMS released a proposed rule that would extend federal funding for state Medicaid eligibility and enrollment systems, Modern Healthcare reports. Background In 2011, CMS increased the federal matching rate for state Medicaid eligibility and enrollment systems from: 50% to 90% for money spent on building such systems; and 50% to 75% for money ...
On Friday, CMS issued its inpatient prospective payment system proposed rule for fiscal year 2016, MedPage Today reports (Frieden, MedPage Today, 4/18). The proposed rule — which would affect about 3,400 acute-care facilities — adjusts for things such as productivity improvement, coding changes and market conditions in the region in which the hospital is located (CMS fact sheet, ...
Open enrollment may have ended in February, but the state's health insurance exchange has had a busy spring.
Several Nevada Republicans are trying to scrap the Silver State Health Insurance Exchange launched as part of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, saying the program is expensive, suffered a rocky start and is another example of federal overreach.
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Nearly 80 percent of Nevadans who selected a qualified health plan through the state exchange paid for the insurance this month, officials said.