The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services requires employers and other entities offering group health plans to provide proof of creditable coverage for Medicare-eligible individuals who are enrolled in their health plan. CMS requires the following entities to provide this proof: Employer group healt...
I think your question is really about your state's Healthcare Financing administration or Medicaid department. Will the state garnish your annuity checks if it is paying for the cost of your nursing home care? Generally, the answer is yes. But, Medicaid laws are very nuanced and every state...
There are just three weeks left until the continuing resolution that was punted before Christmas runs out. And while the Senate and the House are dreaming about massive tax cuts and taking a machete to Medicaid, they apparently haven’t given a thought to the fact that even with all the DO...
As millions of people were losing their jobs or stepping away from paid work to care for their children during the pandemic, Medicaid was a lifeline. Between February 2020 and February 2023, the Medicaid rolls grew bynearly 23 million, thanks in part to provisions in theFamilies First Coronav...
Abortion rights were preserved though federal Medicaid funds would not cover them; housing was supported (at much less than actually needed) with varieties of tax and other subsidies; localities and states upped the minimum wage and many have stronger labor protections than the federal structures....
One challenge is the higher cost of care for people on Medicaid. According to state budget documents, per capita costs have skyrocketed over the last decade for Medicaid users. Between the fiscal year that ended in June 2015 and estimates for the 2025-26 fiscal year, the per-person cost of...
if you have it. Both of those things are being gutted by the Republicans. They’ve been telling us for six and a half years they have a plan on healthcare, and that means taking away Medicare and Medicaid and reducing the ACA access. And they talk about privatizing public schools. And...
Those would include reversing Biden policies on electric vehicles, student loan forgiveness, Medicaid and SNAP. Lead Art: House Speaker Mike Johnson speaks with Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) while other members stand nearby in the House chamber at the U.S. Capitol, on Jan. 3, 2025....
Lead Art: House Energy and Commerce Chair Brett Guthrie has floated major changes to Medicaid. | J. Scott Applewhite/AP Jan 2025 Rep. Thomas Massie said he would vote against Republicans' major border security bill, known as H.R. 2, that they plan to try to pass again this Congress. ...
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