Medicaid

Why is everyone so concerned about the Supreme Court case allowing resident rights cases against state-operated facilities?

Once facing imminent closure, massive CA provider earns recertification … State becomes first to strip Medicaid asset limit … Lab owner gets prison, $77.3 million restitution bill for Medicare genetic...

Medicaid enrollees who used long-term services and supports had “disproportionately high” spending in 2020, but just 24% who utilized the benefit did so in an institutionalized setting, according to...

We can probably assume no House Select Subcommittee will stage a showy hearing to examine the recent finding that the excess mortality rate was better during the COVID-19 pandemic for those with dementia...

Connecticut has new transparency rules for nursing home owners and will require a “plain language” explanation of how Medicaid rates are set. 

Lawyers for an embattled group of nursing homes accused the New York attorney general of trying to “weaponize” a court-appointed monitor charged with assessing the quality of care.

Iowa has increased its Medicaid rate, put millions of dollars into workforce development, approved tort reform, and enacted a moratorium on new nursing home licenses, but the state continues to lose nursing...

As Medicaid rate negotiations continue, especially in states whose legislatures develop two-year budgets, worries are already arising about how willing state lawmakers will be to sustain increases.

Major provider organizations are raising concerns about equitable post-acute care regulation, given two proposed rules that would increase transparency into states’ payment for some home- and community-based...

The Government Accountability Office is urging Medicaid overseers to do a better job of recouping overpayments, citing their allegedly lenient oversight of state auditing efforts.