Medicaid
The Coalition to Strengthen America's Healthcare April 3 launched a new advertising campaign highlighting recent comments by President Trump reaffirming commitments to protect Medicaid and calling on Congress to protect it from funding cuts.
Paragon Health Institute continues their series of misguided and harmful characterizations of Medicaid financing and provider payment.
In this Leadership Dialogue, I鈥檓 joined by Lori Wightman, R.N., CEO of Bothwell Regional Health Center, in Sedalia, Mo. Lori and I discuss working in a 鈥渇amily atmosphere鈥 unique to a rural hospital and navigating the same pressures that face urban hospitals.
Congress is back in Washington, D.C., for a critical three-week stretch in which House and Senate Republicans are seeking to strike a compromise on a common budget resolution that would allow them to start the budget reconciliation process to push through priorities on taxes, border security,鈥
The Department of Health and Human Services March 27 announced a series of actions as part of a department-wide restructuring. The department said the moves would not impact critical services.
A new AHA blog pushes back on some new reports that 鈥渉ave displayed a gross misunderstanding of both the legitimacy of various Medicaid financing arrangements and the consequences of stripping those resources from states trying to provide health care access to their most vulnerable residents.鈥
For health care organizations that care for the 70 million Medicaid patients in the U.S., provider taxes are a life vest that keep state Medicaid programs afloat and allow them to continue providing critical health care services for their communities.
A KFF brief released March 24 compares the potential $880 billion in federal Medicaid cuts from the House-passed budget resolution to states' tax revenues, education spending and the number of Medicaid enrollees covered under the federal funding. The
A JAMA Network Open study published March 13 found that 90% of Medicaid managed care plans cover at least one alcohol use disorder medication without prior authorization and quantity limits.