Medicaid
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released guidance on an optional home health services benefit for Medicaid-eligible children with medically complex conditions effective Oct. 1 under the Medicaid Services Investment and Accountability Act of 2019.
CMS shared a suite of new resources that can be used to improve state and federal monitoring and oversight of managed care in Medicaid and CHIP.
An analysis by Ernst & Young, released today by the AHA, shows that tax-exempt hospitals and health systems provided almost nine times the value of their federal tax exemption in 2019.
HHS today announced that states have an additional year to use American Rescue Plan funds for Medicaid beneficiaries.
California, Kentucky, Oregon and Florida extend Medicaid and CHIP postpartum coverage to 12 months.
After two years on the front lines in the battle against this pandemic, hospitals and health systems have seen a dramatic rise in costs of labor, drugs, supplies and equipment
The update includes a button to help beneficiaries prepare to renew their coverage when the COVID-19 public health emergency ends.
A recent op-ed in the online publication STAT (Turn off the spigot for hospitals鈥 COVID-19 relief funding) contains blatant factual inaccuracies but also omits critical information about hospital and health systems鈥 finances and input costs.
An arbitrator has ordered that Anthem Insurance Company, Inc. (鈥淎nthem鈥) pay a group of 11 acute care hospitals in Indiana (鈥渉ospitals鈥) $4.5 million as compensation for adopting a policy of processing claims for emergency services that the arbitrator found is a 鈥渃lear鈥 violation of federal and鈥
The guidance is intended to help state policymakers identify and address related issues during and after the public health emergency.