Are Healthcare Provider Challenges to Medicaid Cuts Dead?Stephen D
There, under a Medicaid waiver program, assessors interviewed beneficiaries and decided how frequently the caretaker should visit. Dobbs’ needs were extensive. Her illness left her in a wheelchair and her hands stiffened. The most basic tasks of life — getting out of bed, going to the bathroo...
The Families USA report found that 19 states have enacted or proposed cuts in Medicaid, the state-federal health insurance plan for the poor, and the State Children's Health Insurance Program, known as SCHIP, for fiscal years 2009 or 2010.More than 1 million people could lose all health ...
UnitedHealthcare hasannouncedthat it will eliminate out-of-pocket healthcare costs for insulin and other emergency use drugs for fully insured group health plan members. Members will be able to access certain prescription drugs for free as early as January 1, 2023, subject to regula...
PolitiFact’s 2013 “Lie of the Year” came from former President Barack Obama selling ObamaCare, his massive government takeover of healthcare. “If you like your healthcare plan, you can keep it,” Obama said. That was a lie. Now President Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) want...
significant tax breaks for the wealthy, new exemptions for large insurance companies, likely reductions in insurance coverage, and the cuts to Medicaid funding-combined with the fact that it is now labeled "Trumpcare" - there is very little to no chance of Democrats supporting the plan, Mahaff...
Doctors with Medicaid patients in Kansas are on notice after Republican Gov. Sam Brownback began eying the program for budget cuts. (Topeka Capital-Journal) ICYMI FROM THE HILL House Democrats gave mixed reviews to the Obama administration’s controversial cost-cutting plan for Medic...
According to the CBO, the 13 million is composed of five million people who would not choose to obtain coverage thru the individual insurance market, five million people who would not enroll in Medicaid—not due to a pullback of the ACA’s Medicaid expansion, as that was not in the TCJA...
The article considers the opposition of legislators to a plan by U.S. President George W. Bush to transfer Medicaid costs to the states without congressional oversight. This bizarre state of affairs is a product of Medicaid's financing a... ...
Dramatic growth in an opaque Medicaid funding mechanism is exacerbating concerns about the program’s fiscal integrity — while spurring financial gains for the hospital industry. ByRebecca Pifer•Nov. 5, 2024 Physicians, hospitals decry 2025 Medicare payment rates ...