Medicaid
Reps. John Culberson (R-TX), Eliot Engel (D-NY) and Steven Palazzo (R-MS) are asking their colleagues to join them in urging House leadership to take swift action to delay for at least two years the Medicaid disproportionate share hospital cuts scheduled to take effect Oct. 1.
The Senate Finance Committee today held a hearing on the Children’s Health Insurance Program, which covers 8.9 million children with family incomes above Medicaid eligibility limits who lack access to affordable private coverage. While the program is authorized through Oct. 1, 2019, legislative…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today issued answers to frequently asked questions about payments to Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program managed care organizations and prepaid inpatient health plans for patients in an institution for mental disease.
Talks continue among some Republican senators, the White House and governors on legislation to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA).A summary of the draft legislation follows.
A bipartisan group of nearly 40 Members of the U.S. House of Representatives will explore certain health care proposals over the August recess, leaders of the Problem Solvers Caucus announced yesterday.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today published the medical loss ratio credibility adjustments for Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program managed care plans for rating periods beginning July 1, 2017 or later.
Senators early this morning voted 49-51 against a skinny bill to repeal parts of the Affordable Care Act.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today issued a proposed rule that delineates a methodology for implementing the Affordable Care Act aggregate reductions to state Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital allotments beginning in fiscal year 2018. The ACA reduces state Medicaid DSH…