Medicaid News

Congress set the department's spending authority at $178.4 billion, and actual spending that year totaled $172.2 billion.

The Florida senate wants to cut $600 million in Medicaid reimbursements from its budget and WFTV learned that could mean serious cuts for local hospitals.

The American social safety net is back in the news, and not just because Mitt Romney acknowledged, "I'm not concerned about the very poor." This week, the libertarian Mercatus Center at George Mason University revealed that a third of Americans now receive Medicaid, food stamps or other means-based government assistance, a number that climbs to 148 ... (more)

My 65 year old mother began receiving social security benefits last September. She receives $890 a month.

Budget resolution The budget plan authored by Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis. It would reduce the deficit by $4.4 trillion over 10 years by repealing the 2010 health care reform law, reforming entitlements like Medicare and Medicaid and making cuts to defense that were endorsed by the Pentagon.

Medicaid spending is a matter of urgency almost everywhere in the country right now, but in few places is the urgency as palpable as it is here, where the governor refers to the federal-state health insurance program for the poor as "welfare," says it's necessary to eliminate coverage for 65,000 adults, and wants to stop paying room and board for ... (more)

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn's administration will start combing records for Medicaid fraud without the federal government's approval.

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A new study shows health care costs significantly drop when the poor have health insurance, lending new support to the benefits of the controversial Affordable Care Act .

Gaston Memorial Hospital says federal surveyors have informally OK'd the hospital's plan for correcting errors and will recommend GMH keep its Medicare and Medicaid contracts.

Rather than send counties a bill for disputed and unpaid Medicaid claims, the state may start docking the counties' "paycheck." A proposal in Tallahassee could cost Sarasota County up to $6.1 million and Charlotte County $1.1 million.

A Law Enforcement Coordinator for the U.S. Attorney's Office confirmed that the raid was the result of a Medicaid and Medicare Fraud Investigation.

Jeff Zarillo and his partner Paul Katami arrive hand-in-hand to address a news conference after the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit declared California's ban on same-sex marriage, known as Proposition 8, unconstitutional in Los Angeles, California February 7, 2012.

EMH Healthcare recently announced upgrades to its breast health offerings in its Elyria, Avon and Westlake locations, including the ability to receive no-cost mammograms and breast ultrasound screenings for women who meet the program's eligibility requirements.

Proponents of a measure that would significantly overhaul the Oregon Health Plan worked Thursday to round up support for the plan as it appeared it may not have enough votes to pass the Senate.

More than 560 of the nation's nursing homes have not budged for the past three years from a one-star federal government rating - the lowest on a five-star scale - even as most homes improved, according to a USA TODAY analysis of federal data.

A former maintenance worker at a Brunswick nursing home owned by George Houser testified this morning about trash piling up, rats in the kitchen ceiling and mold problems in the areas were residents showered and bathed.

Can a technically voluntary program also be coercive? The 26 states challenging the federal government's expansion of Medicaid called for by ObamaCare are going to the Supreme Court to argue that it can.

As President Barack Obama presses forward with his signature health care law, his fellow Illinois Democrats running state government have waited more than a year to win federal approval for a new plan to fight fraud in the health program for 2.7 million of the state's poorest residents.