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.
Many seniors and disabled people in California who need long-term care will soon face a dramatic reduction in assets they can keep and still qualify for Medi-Cal. Starting in July 2027, the individual limit will fall from $130,000 to $21,000, while the limit for couples will drop from $195,000 to $31,000 when they apply for ...
Vanessa Barahona received a call this past spring from Angelica at Kern Family Health Care in Bakersfield, California, telling her it was time to renew her coverage under Medi-Cal, the state’s version of Medicaid. Angelica helped Barahona, 41, schedule an appointment to complete her paperwork in person at Kern Family’s offices before she submitted it ...
The Trump administration announced it will end a subsidy program aimed at keeping premiums low for Medicare Part D beneficiaries. In a notice posted Tuesday, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released key guidance for Part D plans as they prepare bids ahead of the upcoming annual enrollment period. In it, the agency said it would ...
The Trump administration is withholding more than $1 billion in Medicaid funding to California and Minnesota over what it deems suspect claims. Tuesday’s funding suspension is the latest action by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to target Medicaid funding in the two states. More than $2.5 billion has been deferred from them due ...
Nevada health officials are preparing to phase in sweeping new work requirements for the largest safety-net insurance program in the state, a move that will impact an estimated 280,000 Nevadans who benefited from expanded Medicaid coverage. Under the tax and spending law President Donald Trump signed a year ago, Nevada and other states that expanded ...
The fate of the state’s $2 billion plan to maintain health insurance for low-income and disabled Californians is now in the hands of Mehmet Oz, the celebrity doctor and Republican administrator of the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. State Republicans appealed directly to Oz in a letter on Monday, asking him to reject Gov. ...
With midterm elections now less than four months away, cost tops the list of voters’ health care concerns, a new KFF Health Tracking Poll found. Half of all voters, including 6 in 10 Democrats and 55% of independents, said this issue is extremely important for candidates to talk about. At the same time, more than ...
As the Trump administration’s January deadline looms for states to enforce new Medicaid work requirements, some state lawmakers are turning the tables by pushing to publicly name the largest companies that have employees enrolled in the government program covering low-income and disabled people. California lawmakers seek to revive an expired law that would require the state to ...
The Trump administration proposed major changes to Medicare payment policies that will block third-party vendors from remote patient monitoring. The changes, health tech leaders say, will significantly disrupt services that help patients manage conditions like diabetes and hypertension. The policy change, tucked inside a hefty Medicare physician pay draft rule released this week, marks a shift with ...
In 2021, the California Assembly introduced a new bill, AB 1400, which – if passed – would have eliminated health care in California, as we know it today. Instead, all health care in California would be provided by one new “Single Payer” system called “CalCare” – with no other options for Californians. The move would have eliminated all existing ...