Kennedy Cancels Vaccine Funding – KFF Health News
The Host Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s announcement that the federal government will cancel nearly $500 million in ...
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Are the MA(HT)GA crowd going to be proud of themselves? – The Health Care Blog
By MATTHEW HOLT I have been trying hard to suppress this line of thought but when I woke up in the middle of the night with this piece basically fully formed in my head I couldn’t not ...
Are 5 Million Nondisabled Medicaid Recipients Watching TV All Day? That’s Unsupported
Loreben Tuquero, PolitiFact “Almost 5 million able-bodied Medicaid recipients ‘simply choose not to work’ and ‘spend six hours a day socializing and watching television.’” Scott Jennings ...
Georgia Shows Rough Road Ahead for States as Medicaid Work Requirements Loom
Every time Ashton Alexander sees an ad for Georgia Pathways to Coverage, it feels like a “kick in the face.” Alexander tried signing up for Pathways, the state’s limited Medicaid ...
$50B Rural Health ‘Slush Fund’ Faces Questions, Skepticism
A last-minute scramble to add a $50 billion rural health program to President Donald Trump’s massive tax and spending law has left hospital and clinic leaders nationwide hopeful but ...
Why Providers Aren’t Happy with CMS’ Outpatient Medicare Physician Payment Proposal
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services unveiled a proposed rule that would raise Medicare outpatient payments next year, as well as introduce a key change to how physicians are ...
Medicaid Helps Families — Like Mine — Live the Promise of “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness”
When I was 23 and living in Malawi, Africa, I got a message that my mom was in the hospital — in a coma, with less than a 10% chance of surviving the night. I remember it vividly. I was ...
Surprise Medical Bills Were Supposed To Be a Thing of the Past. Surprise — They’re Not.
Elisabeth Rosenthal Last year in Massachusetts, after finding lumps in her breast, Jessica Chen went to Lowell General Hospital-Saints Campus, part of Tufts Medicine, for a mammogram and ...
Democratic Attorneys General Sue Trump Administration Over New ACA Rule
Democratic attorneys general of 20 states, as well as the governor of Pennsylvania, filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Medicare ...
CMS and AHIP Isn’t the Finish Line: It’s the Starting Gun for Prior Auth Innovation
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Interoperability and Prior Authorization Final Rule (CMS-0057-F) sets a new standard for how payers exchange data and respond to ...
Even Grave Errors at Rehab Hospitals Go Unpenalized and Undisclosed
Jordan Rau, KFF Health News and Irena Hwang, The New York Times Rehab hospitals that help people recover from major surgeries and injuries have become a highly lucrative slice of the health ...
New Legislation Seeks to Preserve Hospital-at-Home Reimbursement Until 2030
This week, five federal policy makers introduced legislation that would extend CMS’ waiver for hospital-at-home reimbursement by five years. Three representatives — Vern Buchanan ...
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