Medicaid program
Grassley investigates Medicaid drug claims
Senator Chuck Grassley (D-Iowa) has begun investigating whether the Medicaid program is routinely paying for prescription drugs which haven't gone through the CMS approval process. Presently, to bill... Read more...
GAO: Thousands of Medicaid providers haven't paid taxes
A new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) concludes that thousands of healthcare providers who haven't paid federal taxes are still collecting millions from Medicaid. The GAO,... Read more...
ALSO NOTED: Feds raid FL Medicaid plan; Delaware requires tamper-proof scripts for Medicaid; and much more...
> The feds have raided the offices of WellCare Health Plans of Tampa, Fl., the largest managed-care provider in Florida's Medicaid program. Read more...
CA offers funds to hospitals hit by King-Drew closure
When troubled Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital closed this August, patients in south Los Angeles were dispersed to hospitals across the region. Because King-Drew served a poor neighborhood,... Read more...
TX hospitals fight for $400M in Medicaid money
Texas hospitals are facing the loss of millions in indigent care funding, with the federal government now challenging the state's basis for distributing the funds through its Medicaid program. The... Read more...
Hospitals get back $7B in Medicare reimbursements
Hospital advocates have managed to tame a substantial round of planned cutbacks in Medicare reimbursements. Originally, 4.8 percent cuts in the Medicare inpatient prospective payment reimbursement... Read more...
Missouri collects $2.5M OxyContin settlement
Missouri has become the latest state to collect on a $160 million legal settlement between OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, the federal government and 26 state Medicaid programs. Purdue was settling... Read more...
Study: Medicaid payments vary substantially
While Medicare payments are more or less uniform across the U.S., Medicaid payments vary dramatically, according to a new study by advocacy group Public Citizen. The study compared primary-care... Read more...
Others payors may follow CMS's 'no pay' lead
Hospitals are still trying to get their head around new Medicare rules that will ban... Read more...
Illinois doctors fight Medicaid HMO plan
Providers are steamed up over an Illinois proposal to force some of the state's Medicaid patients to enroll in HMOs, possibly forcing some out of their care. Because the plans haven't been popular... Read more...
