Medicaid
Connecticut hospitals invested $1.7 billion in community benefit activities in 2016, according to a new report by the Connecticut Hospital Association.
On March 23 published a proposed rule that would give states greater flexibility in how they meet certain access to care requirements for the Medicaid program.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today issued a proposed rule that would exempt states with an overall Medicaid managed care penetration rate of 85% or more from most access-to-care monitoring requirements, such as requirements to analyze certain data and monitor access in fee-for-…
President Trump today announced an initiative to address the opioid crisis focused on education, awareness and preventing overprescribing; developing non-addictive alternatives to opioids; cutting off the flow of illicit drugs; and expanding opportunities for proven treatments.
Leaders of the House Energy and Commerce and Senate Finance committees Friday asked the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to provide more information on how the agency is implementing the Transformed Medicaid Statistical Information System, an initiative to improve the scope and quality…
The Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission today released its March report to Congress, which focuses on Medicaid managed care, telehealth in Medicaid, and disproportionate share hospital allotments to states.
Read about health care organizations' needs to pick up the pace in embracing consumerism; health care uses for drone deliveries; and how health care has been inextricably linked to Medicaid in rural areas.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday deferred a proposal by Arkansas to reduce income eligibility for adults in its Medicaid program from 138% to 100% of the federal poverty level.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today approved a waiver for Arkansas that will require some adult beneficiaries under age 50 to work or participate in job training, community service or other “community engagement” activities.
Govs. John Hickenlooper (D-CO), Jon Kasich (R-OH), Bill Walker (I-AK), Tom Wolf (D-PA) and Brian Sandoval (R-NV) today issued a bipartisan plan to transform the nation’s health care system based on certain guiding principles and beliefs and specific strategies to reorient the system on value.